Believing things will work out can take leaps of faith, which, at first glance, may seem benign. Unless it’s politicians taking the leaps. Because, as unbelievable as this may seem, some politicians just might have calculating, cunning motives in mind, and that’s when leaps of faith can become “faltering” flying leaps of faith.
Might this explain what’s beginning to seem like an epidemic of political machinations, spreading like some nasty virus, along with some politicians’ political spin?
‘Machinations’… meaning “crafty schemes or maneuvers.” And ‘spin,’ generally, meaning ‘BS.’
When they’re combined, political machinations and political spin can cause much chaos.
That 6-week abortion ban Florida’s governor just recently signed, in the dead of night… some women have no idea they’re pregnant that soon.
Some babies tragically die early in pregnancies, but under such strict, new abortion legislation, there’s nothing physicians can do. They can be charged with crimes. They can wind up in jail for providing any kind of medical intervention.
The tragedy of delivering a stillborn baby, somewhere other than in a hospital, is almost unimaginable. There was news about a woman, who knew her baby daughter was dead. Weeks went by. She wound up delivering her baby in a toilet, in a public bathroom… she couldn’t get back home, in time. She couldn’t bear to look. She called her husband to be with her.
Health problems resulting from miscarriages, can be severe and sometimes deadly.
Waging war on women’s health may be one hell of a flying leap of faith for some politicians.
Let’s see… what else?
A naval officer, on the aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, “who identifies as nonbinary,” according to MSNBC, mentioned a poem being read, during what was described as an “LGBTQ spoken word night,” the ship’s crew participated in.
The officer’s grandfather also served on a carrier, decades ago, on the USS Hornet, during World War II.
With his grandfather in mind, the young naval officer said; “It means a lot for me to be able to join the Navy, because he (referring to his grandfather) was a gay man in the Navy, and he had a really difficult service. So for me to join as nonbinary is really powerful to me and something that I’m certainly proud of.”