somebody else's

In somebody else’s America women should remain as the original rib torn from Adam’s body, be blamed for insisting that the snake was wise, and of course let men ogle at their breasts ad nauseam. In someone else’s America women should remain on their backs giving birth, when of course not house cleaning or preparing meals, perhaps in dire situations work but never earn an equal wage that men might, and decide if they are going to be raped is it legitimate or just because they were wonton and wanted. In the world of Republican/Tea Party fringe Americans (their gerrymandered politicians/paid for by corporations who seem to be puppet masters who have little respect for anything female) the world ahead for women is that of a submissive passive toy without the brains to think for herself or act on her own.  If those of us who find females as equals, as humans as Americans finally protected under the Constitution who have mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, aunts etc, etc if we don’t begin the battle to stop this mysogynistic Republican/Tea Party disease we will find that somebody else’s America will become reality.

In somebody else’s America the poor live in poverty because they choose to. Receiving food stamps is a ploy to live in dire need and an easy way to make it through the day.In somebody else’s America the unemployed really no REALLY, do not want to work.Living off the dole is cool and you can purchase all kinds of bling that way without ever having to work up a sweat. In  someone else’s world Jesus only had harsh words for the poor, the downtrodden the people of society who had no voice and if he were alive today in America, (well maybe he is in the guise of Ted Cruz’s pastoral father Raphael, or Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly all of whom have sworn to God Jesus has spoken to them) he would not only cast these poor leaches with pox. Jesus would take those starving homeless souls along with the drug ridden unemployed and make them slaves. In an America perceived by the Republican/Tea Party terrorists currently in Congress poverty is the fault of a faulty individual and unemployment is the result of being a lazy loser. If those of us who have compassion for the poor, the unemployed who believe that in order to pull yourselves up from your own bootstraps you first must be able to afford the damn boots, our lack of will to silence the bully will lead to an even deeper divide between the have’s and have nothings.

In somebody else’s America it is okay, peachy keen, red, white and bluish to never ever be able to afford health care. Being sick is a sign of weakness dagnabbit! In somebody else’s world the argument against health care supersedes the need for health care. Never argue the merits of affordable health care just insist that Lenin, Marx, Castro and perhaps Mao are laughing in their graves ready to turn our stars and stripes into one hammer and cycle on a red background. In somebody else’s America there is belief if you can’t afford quality health care then you either deserve to die or at least wither away in pain. In an America governed by a far right band of Republican/Tea Party jihadists we all DO NOT DESERVE to be healthy. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as translated by the Republican/Tea Party to life if you deserve it, liberty if you are not a minority, and any pursuit of happiness only if it is a Conservative Christian form of joy. If those of us who believe in freedom, equality, fair, and just don’t stop doing the denial dance we will be left as wall flowers wilting, wilting, wilting.

Our current Congress will go down on record as the most divisive, destruction do nothing group of elected officials this nation has ever seen. Our current band of Republican/Tea Party brothers are happy to ignore the plight of its citizens due to ideology, bigotry and religious dogma. Are we going to make this country of our somebody else’s America or something we are proud of?