Don's Tuesday Column

         THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   8/15/2023

Focus on local, state issues

Those were the instructions from “higher ups.” Transition to local and state issues; people can find out about Biden and Trump elsewhere but, this being a local paper, columnists are to change priorities. Owners, publishers and editors set priorities.

Now, this is not without precedent—around 2009 a similar directive came about local issues; that was when I started a blog: donpolson.blogspot.com. For about 14 years I have posted several articles a day on national, state and even world issues, with analysis and opinion.

Readers of all political stripes may, or may not, find all they need to know about Trump and Biden on network, cable and in major print newspapers. Articles printed in the Daily News from the Associated Press, the AP, may or may not give you the sense that you are getting all you need to know. I have yet to read an AP news article that is free of misinformation and errors—which only seem to lean in a Democrat-friendly way. They’re often called stenographers for “the Party.”

Make up your own mind, the way I see it. But when provable corruption on one side gets less than 10 minutes of network coverage, while indictments on the other side get hundreds of minutes of air time—you’re not seeing impartial news coverage.

If you go to donpolson.blogspot.com, you’ll see no ads, popups, or auto-start videos. It is not “monetized”; I make no money from it. Links are provided for every article if you want the full, ad-filled site. However, there is no censorship, no “cancelling” or throttling of your ability to read anything. I will post a column on current controversies each Tuesday; election fraud that delivered up to 800,000 Michigan votes to Biden is examined today.

You may find that if you post something on Facebook, you are chastised. Let me know if that happens; I’m not a Facebook-er and not subject to their policies. My wife had the experience of reading something that she passed on with an “frowny face” emoji and was given an hour-long “time-out.”

That is a tiny example of what was exposed in the Twitter Files where government entities expected compliance (“why hasn’t that been removed yet,” one official emailed). Social media is supposed to be like a “common carrier” where all have access to promote their views, causes or products, and display some ads and reap monetary benefits. Aside from legally prohibited libel, direct instigation of violence, or fraud, the “carrier,” or social platform, is not entitled to favor or disfavor content, or opinion—they must allow Free Speech.

Below you will find the sources and websites I peruse daily so as to be as fully-informed as possible.

On a local issue: The Red Bluff City Counsil decided to “just say no” to proclamations after the no-win, angst-filled “Pride month” non-proclamation. I weighed in twice against “Pride” recognition and feel that the pro-Pride side is beyond reasoning with due to their hysterical advocacy for all-things-gay. Tehama Couty voted about 3 to 1 for Prop 8 in favor of traditional, one man/one woman marriage. Respect that vote, or go elsewhere.

I say “Hell, no” to promoting the gay, lesbian, bisexual lifestyle. I condemn the misguided alliance with the sex-change, child grooming, child mutilation cult using phony medical non-science about suicides that the supposed “trans,” non-treated young person risks. 

The fact is that so-called “gender dysphoria,” feeling that a person was born in the “wrong body” generally goes away with maturing, or morphs into homosexuality, and is mostly induced by social and peer suggestion, not valid biological reality. There are only two sexes, male and female, nothing in between; the “LGB” part of that acronym know it and quietly resent being lumped into the “trans” cult.

The factor of suicide is much more prevalent in those who are subjected to chemical, or surgical—and always irreversible—treatments. Perhaps the psychiatric field will someday analyze the seeming mass psychosis around the sex-change cult and provide honest reflection based on the many who realize their mistaken choices.

I’ve known, and respected, numerous gay people who, other than their unorthodox choice of partners, were fairly unimpeachable citizens, kind and responsible. I worked for Rococo Catering in Los Angeles which had about half gay, half non, and had a higher portion of non-gay workers than the catering business in general. The jokes were not for a family newspaper; the people fun to be around.

Many won’t say it but I will: Very few are born homosexual, no more than 5 percent. Unwillingness to acknowledge the need to recruit and proselytize to grow those numbers is leading to a false sense of proportion. Whether teachers, groomers or recruiters, “leave them kids alone,” as Pink Floyd sang in “Another Brick in The Wall.”

Be informed. Look up https://pjmedia.com , www.powerlineblog.com , https://rumble.com/c/Bongino , instapundit.com  https://justthenews.com , https://Bonginoreport.com . Lefties, prove your convictions; challenge your biases; and switch sides, hopefully.