Ah, for the old days, when we watched TWTW, anxious to hear the 'gnews' from the horse's - no, x that out - gnu's mouth. Far more palatable than the network newscasts. Remember those good old days, for sure, and ponder the strange, the most eerie resemblance with the news reports of today. Therein lies the point.
Anybody out there feel a tad disoriented, thinking, feeling, a total body immersion into great gobs of deja vu or 'been there, done that' moments? Me too! Along with myriad numbers of others. The point here is that we have somehow found ourselves in a retrograde world, where retro is not the hot fashion style of the day, but instead a most unwelcome change, a dangerous one; yet, here it is, well dug into a strong redoubt, all the worse for us.
50 years ago, a benighted USA took a great big giant step into righting wrongs, into recognizing the rights of women to control their own bodies and decisions. Through the following decades, too long delayed, enlarged that understanding to include all people, be they LGBTQ+ or straight, be they same sex marriage or hetero. The point being that all people are equal, deserving of the same rights as such, with discrimination outlawed. An antipathy towards all hate speech grew, larger, more accepting of 'others" and religion was not twisted and tormented until it became what it is today. Among too many.
However, sadly so, terribly so, threatingly so, we have backslid into a version of the pre 1973 decision. Too many benighted, mentally challenged people have escaped the asylum and are now running too many of our various ships of state, from local entities to state to federal. Much to the dismay of any sane and righteous person who understands what is at stake, who knows that one must trace a decision and consequences all the way forward - or backwards as it truly is - and fathom, understand, to the depths of their anguished souls, the danger we now find ourselves enmeshed. Nary a helping hand, a strong branch, to pull ourselves out. No, the muck grows stronger, the pull mightier. We are going down, down, the third time down.
Read the following collection of statements and factoids. Then try to figure out where the hell we are and why we, our beloved country, are in so much existential peril.
"GOP campaign officials are advising candidates to downplay and soft-pedal the prospects of anti-abortion legislation"
"...the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily?" (Uh huh, his stupidity never ends.)
“Her work ethic, energy and grassroots approach are clearly paying off, and Alabamians can see that she is the best candidate to defend our Christian conservative values, fight for the America First agenda, and preserve the country that we know and love for our children and our children’s children.
Antisemitic acts and speech at UCSD, and administration said they are now opposed to "all antisemitism" (Aha, guess there were acceptable forms prior to this statement. How foolish of me not to know!!!)
The US supreme court’s upcoming decision to reverse Roe v Wade (an early draft of which was leaked last week) doesn’t ban abortions; it leaves the issue to the states. As a result, it will put another large brick in the growing wall separating blue and red America.
The second American civil war is already occurring,
"That’s why originalists, those who believe that judgments by the court must conform to how the founders understood the Constitution when it was written, are so dangerous,"
Thurgood Marshall, a Supreme Court Justice from the 20th century, said,
‘I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight and sense of justice exhibited by the framers particularly profound,"
. "We now have evidence to support the story of the worst presidential political offense against the Union in American history. Bring it. Please.
In terms of holding onto power, this may still be a country for old men, but it should be no country for insurrectionists."
Okay, folks. You read, hopefully digested, and truly understand our peril, the reality we are in and the reality that threatens us. Your hands, your votes, your voices - where do they belong? Where must they belong?
Well, hpefully you have read, internaliaed, adn felt tonthe very lst atom of your body and soul, why thisretrograde world ofours is a doomed world from the outset - or from the return. We need to separate those factoids into the acceptable and those not. WE msut understands the true words of wisom and those that are danger indisguise -and not really going unrecognied by thsoe who trul thinkforwarads, not the other way.
No comments:
Post a Comment