Hiatus
I realize that I have not posted in awhile and I want to apologize.
The truth is, I'm dumbfounded. I have no idea what to even say given what's going on in America and I think I'm going to stay this way for awhile and just not really "get it."
The truth is, I'm starting to wonder what the definition of treason actually is. It is, obviously, not my job to prosecute treason, but nonetheless, I'm starting to believe that if our country is founded on ideas of democratic freedom, then we are daily met with traitors to those ideals, and I just don't know how to respond.
Daily, I see traitors to our country rewarded for treason. This goes beyond even, Rice knowing about 9/11 and doing nothing about it. As flagrant as that was, it was more a sign of her incompetence, but what we see now is the defamation and destruction of America conducted by its leadership. These are acts which might otherwise be called treason, but they are rewarded. In other words, what you're seeing daily on the news is NOT treason. I don't know what that means.
But what really disturbs me, I think, is not what the leadership in our country is doing. I no longer have any faith in this regime, but I didn't have much faith in them to begin with. Politics simply aren't my forte. I might mock the press for letting so much go for so long, but we, the dissatisfied, have been beating this dead horse for too long. What disturbs me is that though, daily, we are given reason to believe the leadership of our nation are either incompetent or acting against the American people with emnity, I still find people who want to argue that everything is going fine. I find people who tell me that "New Orleans wasn't that great a city to begin with" or that "the media is lying about how bad things really are," or "liberals haven't had a new idea in five years."
It's fucking sickening.
I used to think that the neo-Republicans were entitled to their opinion. Now, I wonder. I wonder whether that opinion is wise, or whether it isn't simply motivated by spite. Whether these people would follow another Hitler as long as they didn't have to vote democrat. Whether the problem is that they just don't like liberals being right, and they will defend any act or action, so long as they disagree with the left in this country. They are peasants who are defending their abusive feudal lord.
And now I hear rumors that our ex-alcoholic ex-cokehead president is drinking again. Don't worry Jr., your fan base wouldn't leave you even if they found out that you were driving up oil prices in order to make your Texan friends rich. But for the rest of us, oh God!
But the worst is that though no one reads my blog, and I do mean no one, somehow, this post will attract someone's attention. "Some how" my writing, which would otherwise never be read except by two or three of my friends, will attract some anonymous voice who will defend the neo-Republicans. I'm beginning to wonder: who pays these commenter to find blogs like mine and to beat them down. Instead of just insulting this entry, could the internet-Gestapo come out of the woodwork and tell me what agency they're working for? Is my lone voice of dissent really that worthy of your censure?
"Treason never prospers, and here's the reason: if it prospers none dare call it treason."
The truth is, I'm dumbfounded. I have no idea what to even say given what's going on in America and I think I'm going to stay this way for awhile and just not really "get it."
The truth is, I'm starting to wonder what the definition of treason actually is. It is, obviously, not my job to prosecute treason, but nonetheless, I'm starting to believe that if our country is founded on ideas of democratic freedom, then we are daily met with traitors to those ideals, and I just don't know how to respond.
Daily, I see traitors to our country rewarded for treason. This goes beyond even, Rice knowing about 9/11 and doing nothing about it. As flagrant as that was, it was more a sign of her incompetence, but what we see now is the defamation and destruction of America conducted by its leadership. These are acts which might otherwise be called treason, but they are rewarded. In other words, what you're seeing daily on the news is NOT treason. I don't know what that means.
But what really disturbs me, I think, is not what the leadership in our country is doing. I no longer have any faith in this regime, but I didn't have much faith in them to begin with. Politics simply aren't my forte. I might mock the press for letting so much go for so long, but we, the dissatisfied, have been beating this dead horse for too long. What disturbs me is that though, daily, we are given reason to believe the leadership of our nation are either incompetent or acting against the American people with emnity, I still find people who want to argue that everything is going fine. I find people who tell me that "New Orleans wasn't that great a city to begin with" or that "the media is lying about how bad things really are," or "liberals haven't had a new idea in five years."
It's fucking sickening.
I used to think that the neo-Republicans were entitled to their opinion. Now, I wonder. I wonder whether that opinion is wise, or whether it isn't simply motivated by spite. Whether these people would follow another Hitler as long as they didn't have to vote democrat. Whether the problem is that they just don't like liberals being right, and they will defend any act or action, so long as they disagree with the left in this country. They are peasants who are defending their abusive feudal lord.
And now I hear rumors that our ex-alcoholic ex-cokehead president is drinking again. Don't worry Jr., your fan base wouldn't leave you even if they found out that you were driving up oil prices in order to make your Texan friends rich. But for the rest of us, oh God!
But the worst is that though no one reads my blog, and I do mean no one, somehow, this post will attract someone's attention. "Some how" my writing, which would otherwise never be read except by two or three of my friends, will attract some anonymous voice who will defend the neo-Republicans. I'm beginning to wonder: who pays these commenter to find blogs like mine and to beat them down. Instead of just insulting this entry, could the internet-Gestapo come out of the woodwork and tell me what agency they're working for? Is my lone voice of dissent really that worthy of your censure?
"Treason never prospers, and here's the reason: if it prospers none dare call it treason."