the monsters among us

At first I was furious as a bunch of clowns, pompous and pious at the ready with ammunition of hypocrisy and hyperbole always talking out of both sides of their mouths were standing in front of adoring crowds claiming victory from elections fraught with pay for play, gerrymandering and a slew of Supreme Court shenanigans permitting Jim Crow to rise from the dead. I love politics but Tuesday night November 4, 2014 was even too scary for me to watch or listen to as an unfolding of disaster was about to befall America. Politicians who who used fear as fact, hate as foundation, God as a general more powerful Genghis Khan, who have never read word one of the US Constitution preferring the New Testament as law, all lined up on the winners podium to proclaim a new ‘Merica, an improved ‘Merica and oh yeah a ‘Merica that prided itself on exclusion and elimination of life, liberty and the pursuit of anyone else deemed different.

Then my anger and frustration found footing not just in the puppets elected to take America down a very Christian/mercenary jihadist path but to the billionaires, corporations, 1% of puppeteers who languish in money so dark that a dark hole could actually be swollen and lost in its incessant and insincere pool of water. I loathed at the idea that democracy became a consumer item that could be bought, bribed and boondoggled. Corporations are people, but never persons proud enough to be open and honest about buying and selling campaigns about the lies and fiction they spew, about the selfish nature of their future for America. 

But finally, after all my hysteria about the end of social civilization for America seethed and simmered I found that the true culprit of my malaise was toward the ignorant, misinformed uneducated FOX Noise, Limbaugh listeners and viewers who actually thought they were voting out the bums but instead voted in the most voracious of racists, homophobes, misogynists and anti democracy politicians. I believe spiting yourself just to try and get even with a perceived enemy is just plain dumb and destructive. To elect men and women into office who only want to deny equality, freedom, choice, accessibility, clean air, living wages and health care is beyond stupid, your chance at an American dream is outright dumb to say the least and plain stupid to say the most.

The monsters are dangerous, the scientists who create the monsters are terrible, but when the townsfolk permit the monsters to run roughshod they are the ones to fear the most.