In November of 2024, 89 million voting-eligible Americans chose not to vote. I also chose not to vote for 42 years of my adult life, so I suspect I may understand why they think that they don’t matter…or that voting doesn’t matter…or they can’t make a difference…or that politics has nothing to do with their lives or them.
Perhaps they believed as I once did that America’s politicians (regardless of party) are all corrupted by money and power…that politics is an illusion meant to deceive us into thinking we have some control over our world and our lives when in reality we have none.
Donald Trump opened my eyes to my colossal mistake.
An aspect of human psychology concerns what psychiatrists call the “observer.” The ‘observer’ is that quiet voice in our heads apart from our egos that sometimes warns us to pause and reconsider whatever we’re about to do, or it sometimes gives us wise advice.
Often, we’re so focused on our egos or affirming our beliefs that we can’t hear that quiet voice. Life, however, can sometimes take us so completely by surprise that our egos can only stare agog in silent stupefaction. In such moment in early 2020 — when I first saw President Trump speaking live on YouTube about a potential threat to the nation’s health — I heard my observer clearly.
Note: at the time, I couldn’t care less about politics, worldviews, or religion, and I knew nothing about Donald Trump. I simply wanted information about the Covid virus.
“My God!” my observer gasped within a minute of seeing Trump, “We’ve got a moron for a president! How did that happen? He’s an utter buffoon!”
Even worse, Trump’s grandiose arrogance and haughty disdain for the medical experts who stood behind him looking glum were so obvious I suspected he was a narcissist or worse.
My political and social skepticism flew out the window. Clearly, anyone who was that incompetent, irresponsible, self-obsessed, and delusional had no business sitting in the Oval Office. Such a president was a dangerous threat to virtually every aspect of our lives and world. I instantly realized two things about my future:
I had to register to vote and vote against Trump and his political allies,
I had to understand what had gone so wrong in America that such a person could be its president,
I had to use the insights I’d gained through my former experiences as a stem cells activist (see following bio) to try to heal the social fracture that enabled Trump.
In January of 2024, when I saw that Trump might again be elected, I wrote and self-published a book, Weaponized Division, to warn readers of how they’re manipulated and divided psychologically for the wealth and power of others. I had hoped that by revealing how they’re exploited and betrayed they might begin to escape the mental matrix that ensnares them.
I utterly failed to make a difference, so here we are.
How can we awaken 89 million people who think that nothing is amiss if it’s not affecting them today? Might they suffer tomorrow through their current apathy or complacency? After all…
At least 1.2 million Americans died of Covid-19, and yet many of them disbelieved it was serious until they were too sick to save.
Did the Texans who died on July 4th in the Guadalupe flash flood think that Trump’s idiotic staff reductions at the National Weather Service could get them killed and cause their loved ones terrible grief?
For complacent Americans to see America clearly and care about what they see, will it take:
a second ‘Great Depression’ or runaway inflation triggered by Trump’s showboat tariffs?
a far more deadly pandemic and a total economic collapse unleashed by his wrecking the CDC, the NIH, and America’s medical preparedness?
the loss of their health care or retirements, so billionaires can pay less taxes?
a nuclear confrontation with Russia or a nuclear war initiated by Trump’s desperate need to distract us from his close association with a pedophile ring?
Trump’s Gestapo pounding on their doors in the dead of night because they said something against him publicly after it was no longer safe for them to say it?
My former job as a train dispatcher required me to looks at realities objectively, to see developing dangers, and to do whatever was needed to avoid them.
What America needs today and in its coming years is for 89 million Americans to realize that the qualities of their futures depend on their paying attention to America now, seeing where it’s heading and who wants to take us there, and listening to their sensible inner voices.
Sincerely……Because You Matter!
James P. Kelly
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James’s Bio
A unique set of circumstances brought me to a point in 2002 when I picked up a phone, called a switchboard in Washington D.C., and dramatically changed my life’s focus and path. These circumstances included:
the problem-solving and communication skills I developed through a twenty-year railroad career as a signals installer, locomotive electrician, and train dispatcher.
my lifelong total disinterest and non-involvement in politics, religion, or worldview issues.
a 1997 auto accident that left me paralyzed and determined to use the above-mentioned skills to study and understand scientific research involving spinal cord injury (SCI).
my alarm over inaccurate statements regarding stem cells and SCI research made in testimony to the U.S. Senate on March 5th 2002.
That phone call led to my becoming a “pro-cures” patient activist for several years in the stem cells and cloning debates. My involvement included:
thrice serving as a White House surrogate stem cells spokesperson,
debating the medical value of cloning at the New York Academies of Science,
debating the medical worth of embryonic stem cells and cloning on CNN,
testifying before state and federal government committees,
communicating daily for several years with lobbyists, congressional staffs, members of the President’s Council on Bioethics, and White House staff.
Just as my becoming paralyzed led to my intensive study of SCI research, which led to my ‘stem cells’ involvement, I remain socially active against economic fascism and wrote a non-fiction book (Weaponized Division: Exploiting Beliefs for Profits and Power) due to:
what I learned about social control and exploitation through my former exposure to lobbyists, politicians, and special interests,
my continued and expanded study of peer-reviewed research,
my observations since the stem cells debates of how politicians, corporations, worldview extremists, and the media target our hopes, fears, and beliefs to promote social division and profit from it,
how that social division has crippled our society’s ability to act decisively concerning climate change, clean energy, medical progress, gun control, Covid-19, and the multiple crimes of Donald Trump.
I’m hosting this site because I’ve witnessed how a universal aspect of the human psyche renders us vulnerable to manipulation and social control by people who see nothing wrong with exploiting us. I’m doing this because my conscience insists that I do it.
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