Contributed by Huhnkie Lee
Greetings Friends, this is Huhnkie Lee running for 2022 US Senate as an independent Alaskan.
As a student of history, I couldn’t help noticing the similarity between Afghanistan and America. Taliban mandates Afghanistan male and female citizens to wear long skirts to hide their leg contour lines. Democratic Party regime mandates Americans to wear masks to cover up their mouths. I guess they want to be stoic and emphasize disciplines and discretion.
Remember the Petticoat Affair in 1829, once upon a time in America? Even in America 200 years ago, people were heavily clothed to hide their skins. Such shyness of nudity traces back to the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve hid their reproductive organs with fig tree leaves. If you look at European paintings of centuries ago, both male and female Westerners were heavily clothed. Easterners used to be heavily clothed too: both male and female Asians wore long skirts centuries ago.
So, we did some time traveling to visit our ancestors in history books. Now let’s do space traveling to Afghanistan by watching TV. We are not being judgmental here. Rather, we’re not being too politically correct. Historians know that every country is at different stage of human evolution. When we look at heavily clothed Middle Easterners, we find their fashion similar to our Eastern or Western ancestors of centuries ago.
For instance, gender equality came to America only 101 years ago, when 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 to recognize women’s voting rights. Will it take a century for Afghanistan to recognize women’s voting rights? I doubt it. Why? The speed of human evolution is accelerating, thanks to the ever-accelerating speed of information propagation. We have internet on our cellphones, social medias, and Afghanistan people, including Talibans, have those. I think it will take less than a couple decades before Afghanistan allow women to vote.
I’m optimistic about Afghanistan. I was deployed to Afghanistan as a US Army junior enlisted soldier for a year in 2011-2012. We interacted with Afghanistan citizens, and I learned that they are smart, strong, beautiful, and highly honorable people. Afghanistanis tasted the democracy and modern freedom, so there is no turning back. I’m not worried about Taliban regime either. I think Taliban has evolved considerably. Talibans are smart people and they’re very keenly aware of the fact that the entire world is watching Afghanistan these days. Talibans are more than smart to know the importance of international cooperation in this day and age. I bet they’ll behave.
Now let’s get back to America and talk about mandatory masking and vaccine. I’m kinda conservative in this issue of personal liberty and individual freedom and I don’t mandatory stuffs. But, having said that, I’m a pragmatic politician rather, as opposed to having been an idealistic activist back in the days. So, when Walmart mandated mask wearing, I wore it. When my job required me, I got twice Pfizer vaccines. My attitude was, “I may die from side-effects from masks and vaccines, or I die from starvation. Heck with it, I’ll just do it. Whatever burger.”
I got into politics by pure accident. Three years ago, back in 2018 spring time, I was reading Google news. To my surprise, the City of Wasilla, my present hometown, made a national headline when it banned plastic bags in groceries. To voice my objection, I went to Wasilla City Council meeting and used my three minutes to say, “Plastic bags are light, durable and cheap. Plastics are one of the greatest modern technological inventions. I love plastic bags.” From then on, I became a regular in public city and borough meetings and the rest is history.
So, I did the political activist activities for about two years ,and I learned many good things from local politics and politicians. Last year, I ran for Alaska State Senate Republican Primary in August 2020. As we all know, I didn’t get elected and my campaign was over. Not knowing what else to do in my spare time, I hunkered down and started to write it all down and published some academic papers in freely-accessible online databases. I did submit to peer-reviewed journals, but they all turned me down. Oh well.
Some of the dozen papers I wrote over the one-year period were about physics. We briefly talked about the inter-relationship between space travel and time travel. But that was not to endorse Mr. Einstein’s famed space-time continuum hypothesis. To quite the contrary, I believe I disproved both Special and General Relativity theories of one Mr. Einstein. If interested, please see: https://vixra.org/abs/2009.0211 and https://vixra.org/abs/2010.0192.
Now, let’s talk about my campaign. These days, on Monday - Thursday evenings after work, I do a modernized version of “front porch campaign”. Something good came out of COVID: the Zoom-Zoom meetings of local governmental agencies all over Alaska. I attend them and use my three minutes for campaign pitch, in the style of a daytime gameshow host or a used-car salesman.
My campaign promise? I shall annually adjust my US senatorial salary to average Alaskan salary level and donate the rest to Alaska Government.
Thank you!