Well, folks, I am not sure that there is anybody home. Not anymore, or at least not very often. I wonder at the ignorance displayed by people who should know otherwise or at least know to fact check before they open their stupid mouths, the mouths that push lies, that adhere to false stories, that commit themselves to fabrications of ridiculousness and should instead be committed to some kind of mental rehab facility. Such is the state of leadership today and such is America today. What a shame.
Every fifth grader learning American history discusses the Constitution and the formation and acceptance of certain formulas and viewpoints, the 3/5 compromise being one of them. That allowed for the inclusion of slaves as 3/5 of a person. Notice that they were not accorded even that nonsense when other rights of a human were discussed. It was a shameful concession to the southern states and has haunted us ever since, etching certain distorted values into the psyche of too many, destroying lives and potentialities of too many.
Evidently Justin Lafferty, a state legislator from Tennessee was not present for that term or was asleep at his desk, for he says he was running on his memory rather than fact checking before he spoke. Anyone have a spare American history textbook, worksheet, stored lecture, a vial of common sense?A vial of decency and the minimum smarts needed to know what was wrong and what was right? Evidently not, much to our dismay and the ever widening crack within the American people.
Oh, here is another one where evidently no one is home upstairs. The idiots, the dangerous idiots in Arizona, who are endangering the right to vote, the surety of voters that they will not be harassed as they vote a secret ballot, well, these same morons are actually looking for bamboo shoots and fibers and 'Chinese' paper to support their 'brilliant' theory that 40,000 ballots were replaced by the same number of Asian ballots that were allegedly illicitly smuggled into the country and then exchanged! I kid you not! Anyone home there? I think not. Yet there they are, with the chief dangerous idiot shouting as he continues to try to steer the ship of the American state right on to the rocky shoals.
How about those who think that the Supreme Court's job is to mediate private arguments or that being a publicly traded company means certain demands are applicable. Nope, wrong on all counts, and yet here we are with the Court ringing in on it. The same court that epitomizes the rabid attitude of the GOP with government in the lives of American citizens. Guess the people on the first floor forgot or neglected to caucus with those of the second floor; hence the absence of anyone in the attic!! Hello? Nope, nary a soul. Not even a whisper of one. Not anymore, anyway.
Then we have the what? The basest of ignorance and prejudice coming out? The fallback to old stereotypes, ones that leaned on backward thinking memes? When a GOP Representative calls another one "Buckwheat", well, then he wonders why that Representative yells at him!? Another empty vessel speaking dangerous nonsense, along the same vein of thought and attitude which enabled the /35 compromise to be inserted into a most forward thinking document of world history. An empty vessel can bring about a whole lot of noise which obscures the truth and instigates violence and more hate and ignorance.
Then, of course we have the local supposed leaders who seemingly have also gone away on long term vacations, thinking that no one will challenge their decisions - to overdevelop, of changed funding, of opaqueness in government, or the increase of the danger level due to politics. Or those who think that not talking to someone is a mature attitude. Nope, no one home. Hello? Hello? Uh-uh, not the Adele hit song, but a plaintive query about the state of America today.
We need to heed these words, an echo of the shouts of the Vietnam protesters, the one that went "The whole world is watching."
Today's version: "History is watching Our children are watching. We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process."
Ahh, someone is finally home.
The rest of us? Hello? Hello?
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