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Today’s offering is a little more serious than the things I normally write here. If you’re not in the mood for it, fair enough. Just enjoy the music and have some coffee. If you’re curious, though, read on.
I’m writing this before the debate airs tonight; I’m not sure I have the strength or energy to watch it. It hit me today that things from the past have come around again. The ugly racism of our worst years, the creeping fascism of the McCarthy era, the arrogance of believing the earth is ours to destroy at will, in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar...all of it is back for another go at the Wheel of Misfortune.
Remember Tricky Dick? Remember the war that seemed to go on forever, chewing up lives and souls like so much feed in the trough of forever? Remember how we worried that the FBI might have a file on us or on someone we loved because we protested what the Government was doing in our name? And that if we wrote to the FBI to ask about it...they’d start a file on us! The original Catch-22 for “enemies of the State.”
Here we are again. Our government is being used against us, over and over. Our rights are being eroded or downright negated by those who hold the whip of power in one hand and their greedy gleanings in the other.
Some rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem , to give birth to a new age of terror and shame. (Apologies to Wm. Butler Yeats)
These are dark days, indeed.
Time has come round again.
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Remember, though, that there always comes the dawn. Even tyranny cannot live forever. And the old white men who think the earth is theirs to plunder, are dying out.
We cannot just wait for them to die and loosen their grip on all they have amassed. We may only have one more election to pry our beloved country from their grasping, decaying flesh.
VOTE
Decide for whom you will vote, and work your ass off to see that person succeed. And if your candidate doesn’t win? Suck. It. Up. All we hold dear is at stake. I would vote for the Devil, Himself, if it meant keeping our government out of the hands of the corrupt GOP. We hope it won’t get to that; we have too many qualified, passionate, progressive candidates running. If my first choice doesn’t make it...I’ll be sad. For about thirty nano-seconds, before I throw my support behind whomever does get the nomination.
I’m at the point where I am deeply frightened by what I see coming. Since that infamous escalator ride, the bloviating pile of greed that squats in our White House has done more to destroy our beloved country than most willing enemies ever have.
The monsters aren’t coming. They were born here and they are in power here.
We’ve seen this shit show before. We’re in it again, now, for all the marbles. It is possible we have already reached the tipping point with climate, and are so very close to it on every other level. We have to fight with every means necessary to preserve our Constitution. That imperfect document that fired the souls of millions, must be protected at all cost.
VOTE
I am more frightened than I have been at any point in my life. In spite of my fears and doubts and worry, I have decided to walk with our fellow citizens through the fear, and the darkness around us. To hold out for the Light, but fight while we do.
Wherever possible, I wil show compassion and love to my fellow citizens. That is not my weakness, but my strength. And my greatest strength? My
VOTE
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The echoes of the past….give us a way forward.
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We still need our heroes.
And if we cannot find them, we must BE them.
Keep fighting the good fight; we have no other choice.
One for Hope….
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Thanks for letting me get this out of my system. If you managed to read all the way through...thank you. Just remember….
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What’s on your mind this morning?