Seeing those GOP wins in Va and NJ worried me yesterday. I felt kinda nauseous really.
Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Steele, the GOP's propganda: the Fox Network and their lies and hatred spewing... it all makes me afraid.
Huffington Post is probably my favorite online news blog/forum. And I feel a sigh of relief seeing comments by my fellow Americans that are witty and see past the bologna the GOP is throwing out. But there are so many people who are ignorant. Their hearts are full of hatred. Hatred for our half Black president. And that's the only reason they dislike them, some choose to say it (see Becks rant on how a Biracial President raised by his White grandparents hates White people. Or Limbaughs blaming Obama for a violent action towards white kids on a bus). To the point they are willing to see this country burn in hell before they try to work with him to make things betters.
And I'm worried about us. My people. and by my people i don't mean an ethnicity. I mean the middle class, the 9-to-5ers, the people busting their ass just to stay afloat and not asking nor wanting handouts. I'm scared for us, because the GOP doesn't give a shit about us. They are too busy trying to spite the President. Biting their noses off to spite their own faces.
The presidential race seemed to stretch on forever, but I miss it. I miss the pride I felt, the hopefulness for the future. And it's not because President Obama is not doing his job. America is a 'democracy', anything he wants to do has to go through the house and senate. For these people to argue and bicker and throw bills and proposals back and forth and sling mud and name call, while we, we REAL Americans, the middle class, the proletariats, the cogs that keep america running, are SUFFERING for it. They care nothing for utilitarianism, only seeing the president fail so they can go 'see, told ya so!'. Actually, I don't know what it is they are after, but it's nothing good or useful or positive...
Every step of the way, they're spiting him. They want coal and oil, not clean energy. Let's keep depending on other countries for oil. Who gives a shit we are destroying our environment. I can only guess that there is some other planet we can live on once Earth is out of service. They don't want Healthcare reform, so let's let insurance companies determine when they will pay the bill and when they won't- don't worry they are only dealing in human lives. (Thank you Congressman Grayson). Who gives a crap about our failing educational system. That Southeast Asia is kicking our asses in math and science. We all know how successful 'Leave no Child Behind" is. They want to keep sending troops over to Iraq, for a war that can't be won. Burning through money we don't have and more importantly, taking more lives. And I understand how soldier's families feel, some want to stay. To leave would mean they lost their loved ones for nothing. But the situation in Iraq could go on for years and years. Iraq has a totally different culture, and if they want democracy then they will need a civil war, something that outsiders can't fight for them. The same way we fought the British out to become our on country. The same way the North and South fought to remain a unified. I'm not heartless I feel for these people but this is their fight now. It's way past time America learned to respect the sovereignty of other countries.
And I simply don't get it. Obama didn't put us in this economic situation. The deficit is not his fault. He didn't start the fire, it was all Bush. And since he has been in office the economy is getting better, I watch the stock ticker and see more upward green arrows than a see of red ones. How the hell is he going to make change without spending money? How can he bring more jobs here or reform healthcare or education? Do some 'Bewitched' nose twitch, nod his head and shit will start happening?
I'm scared for America. I'm scared that people who shouldn't be taken seriously, like Palin, are being taken seriously. These people are ignorant. They are really really ignorant. They are afraid for absolutely no reason, they say shit that is totally out there and makes NO SENSE, and it's dangerous. You can't ignore crazies. Hitler was crazy but people still followed him. He kept spewing his hate filled angry rhetoric and see what happened? Attempted genocide on people intellectuals, ethnic groups, the disabled....
In the squares of the city in the shadow of the steeple
near the relief office, I see my people
And some are gumblin' and some are wonderin'
if this land's still made for you and me....