For the first time since Obama was elected I am afraid. I knew the racists and the gun nuts would be out there in full force - but i didn't expect ALL the crazies from under EVERY rock to come out. I've watched the same news,
and tried to keep up with the right wing loon conspiracies, but this
goes way beyond that. What is it about this one man that has loosed
the full bodied hatred from the loudest among us?
I am an older white woman, from the northern midwest. I've gone to college, I have worked since I was 13. I got married, had two kids who
grew up to go to college and marry and raise their own kids with values,
and common sense, they read and think and reason. They all went thru the
same public school system. I taught them manners, and respect which they
passed on to their own children. They are good neighbors, they have good
friends, in other words they are in every sense - normal.
With that in mind. WTF is going on in my country. We elected a president
and a new congress WITH A MANDATE. A gin-u-ine WIN! A LIFE CHANGING -
THIS IS THE MOMENT - WE FINALLY ELECTED A SMART EDUCATED QUALIFIED HUMAN
BEING WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE HALF BLACK. And in that moment we - the
TRUE BELIEVERS - really thought this really smart, educated, qualified
human being would actually, you know, DO WHAT WE ELECTED HIM TO DO!
AND THAT WAS
CHANGE THE STATUS QUO
But sadly I am watching him become small, and bendable to the
will of the establishment inside the beltway, and the money that
buys elections. He has folded.
My heart is broken.
And the fear I feel overwhelming me is that THEY
the neanderthals, the knuckledraggers, the mouthbreathers, the haters,
the racists, the gun nuts, the religious nuts,anti-science, anti-education, the tin foil hat crews will have won.
Then what? What will Obama do for the next 3-1/2 very long years.
What will we do? If he caves to the bull horns on the first battle,
he might has well just stay in the oval office and hide, because he
has just taught his foes how to win every challenge. He will become
Jimmy Carter. And the heart broken believers will never trust him
again.
If Obama fails on this first test of his presidency, the world will
not trust anything he says either. The bully pulpit, political capital
and any moral authority that came with his election will be lost forever.
How do we get thru to this leader of ours? Before his speech? Before it's too late to change what he is about to say? I am very afraid for
my country, my normal family, and me.
THIS TIME it is about what is BEST for the country, and not about THE NEXT ELECTION.