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Honey, I’m home

For too many decades, our culture and our politics have been dominated by fear.

We like to be afraid.  We adore roller coasters and slasher flicks.  We welcome any form of television that instills fear and we love our serial killers, rapists and murderers.  Count on us to be enthralled by the sick and sadistic.  Watch us embrace the macabre.   As zeitgeist, there’s nothing new here.

This is different.

Perhaps the most disturbing manifestation of an insidious and overt effort to make us afraid of terrorists, viruses gone pandemic and various minorities is the modern American fear of it’s wealthiest.  Certain well funded political movements would have us believe that if we don’t afford the ridiculously wealthy obscene tax breaks, egregious exemptions and impossible to justify advantages, they will somehow forsake us and prevent any possibility for even modest prosperity for what is now the working poor.

Somehow, we’re all in.  Somehow so many of us buy this crap.

“The wealthiest 10 percent of Americans now have a larger share of total income than they ever have in records going back nearly a century — an even larger amount than during the Roaring Twenties, the last time the US saw such similar disparities in wealth………..an updated study (PDF) from University of California-Berkeley economist Emanuel Saez shows that, in 2007, the wealth disparity grew to its highest number on record, based on US tax data going back to 1917.  According to Saez’s study, which Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman drew attention to at his New York Times blog, the top 10 percent of earners in America now receive nearly 50 percent of all the income earned in the United States, a higher percentage than they did during the 1920s.  -Raw Story

Rampant capitalism and they call me a socialist.  Wealth like this simply does not occur organically, you know, from smarts and hard work.  Read it all:  http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/15/concentration-of-wealth-in-hands-of-rich/

The nation’s official poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008 — the second statistically significant annual increase in the poverty rate since 2004. There were 43.6 million people in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008 — the third consecutive annual increase.

Meanwhile, the number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million in 2009, while the percentage increased from 15.4 percent to 16.7 percent over the same period.  -US Census Bureau

One in seven of us now live in poverty as citizens of the wealthiest nation in the history of humankind.  Something is very wrong.

See, the rich have never given a mad fuck about the middle class or the poor.  This is history and history repeats itself.  No break they’ve ever been afforded has ever translated to a break for the everyman.  Never has and never will, yet stupid mouth breathing “activists” (tea party ignorants and lockstep Republicans) are absolutely convinced, despite damning recent history to the absolute contrary, that it’s not only saved us from tyranny and preserved the constitution but that they’ve always benefitted from the rich getting richer and if you don’t believe they will again, Jesus is not your savior and you’re a goddamned communist who wants pedophiles to run free and wish lazy minorities didn’t have to work.

For what it’s worth, these folks are the most afraid and it’s because they are spectacularly dumb and woefully gullible.

Don’t fear the brown man.  Don’t fear the reaper.  Fear the greedy white man.

Historically, there has always been a quantity of lamentable deference for the rich in any society.  They’ve always somehow been able to command a modicum of respect from the masses and it is perhaps because the average holds hope to become one of them someday.  A rather notorious and painfully hopeless vanity on the part of the great unwashed.  This despite a consistent effort to exploit any advantage over the average worker to heap more on their pile of filthy lucre.  Still, it’s always been there.

Yet this is new.  It’s alarmingly sudden that so many of us are so complicit.  That so many of us are anxiously willing to vote against our own best interests because we find ourselves in a shadow that we can’t see, hear or smell, but that they keep telling and describing everyday.  They, the media, are relentless in reminding us that if we keep fucking around and disrespecting the fat fucks that deserve our worship and respect, they, the ridiculously wealthy, will gleefully drive all that we know into a ditch and we’ll be at the mercy of homeless shelters and soup lines while our hearts dare to beat over and over.  The thing is this; we continue to let them get away with such Machiavellian machinations, it’s exactly what we’ll get because it’s exactly what THEY want.

If you listen to the Republicans, it is exactly what they’d have you believe.  And it is bullshit.

They don’t care.  They ARE NOT Americans.  They are chronically avaricious citizens of whatever country they can exploit the most.  To them, loyalty is only a word understood in the context of self.  Theirselves.  Themselves.  Yet so many Americans clamor to support and defend them.  Why?  Because they’ve been indoctrinated with a fear of them.  Not all wealthy people are bad.  Not all Republicans are racist.  But if you’re racist, you’re probably a Republican and if you’re wealthy, it’s a least likely you’re a greedy bastard.  Most of us aren’t concerned with copious wealth.  We’re otherwise directed.  Family, friends, love and respect are the things we pursue.

We have before us the issue of the Bush tax cuts that were passed via reconciliation and therefore had to expire or be voted on to extend within ten years because of their profoundly deleterious affect on the deficit.  Some trillion dollars or so that along with the unjustified wars we’ve been fighting for near a decade represent more than enough money for us to put every American to work on infrastructure while not losing a teacher, a fireman or a policeman and provide health care for us all. The answer to this glaringly explicit canard is to allow the cuts to the wealthy to return to Clinton era levels where we were left with an actual surplus and job creation was seven times what the Bush policies produced and keep the rest for those of us that need a break and just can’t seem to get one.  Do the math.  It’s a walk in the park.

Yet it’s still up for debate.  The polls are pretty solid but Democrats, in true sackless fashion aren’t willing to force a vote before the midterm elections.  The biggest reason we’re here is Democrats lack the courage of their convictions and Republicans are full to bursting with vulgar nonsense to fit any size.  Democratic leaders spend their time at home changing their adult diapers and availing themselves of tissue while Republicans wake up to wipe or wash away the copious disgusting discharge from Viagra abuse.  Democrats run around in panties soiled by Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or Pat Boone mastering ceremonies at the latest Tea Party clusterfuck while Republicans bump, rub or charge anything they oppose or fear with priapismic dicks and purple blue balls.

And we all lose.  Over and over.  It’s magically delicious!  Maddeningly ridiculous.

But we are complicit.  We ARE afraid.  Fear is a formidable force multiplier and it works both ways.  We have become stupid while the stupid are on the march. We fear the rich while the stupid embrace them.  We fear the rich because our own vanity allows us to wish to be them.  We fear the rich because we’ve allowed them to become very scary.  It is our fault in so many ways and on so many levels.

“I turned around and she said
“Why do you always end up down at Nick’s Cafe?”
I said “I don’t know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way.”
She said “Hang the rich.”  -Robbie Robertson “Somewhere Down The Crazy River”

So hang the rich or let us eat cake?

Naw.  Maybe, but what if we just let them be rich and agree to stop helping them be richer because they’re already rich?  Checks and balances.  You can’t check the rich unless you have a middle class and America’s middle class is starting to fossilize.

I’m not necessarily a Democrat and as sexist as it sounds, the Democratic flag has vagina on it, and I relate to mine own organ so……….

FDR once met with a group of activists who sought his support for bold legislation. He listened to their arguments for some time and then said, “You’ve convinced me. Now go out and make me do it.” -Huffingtonpost.com

Drinks for my friends.


Dammned if you do……..

Okay, so now I’m forced, out of grudging respect, to redact all references to the website and controller thereof who is the the subject of this piece, because said individual does not have the courage of “their” convictions and isn’t interested in being held accountable or responsible for “their” beliefs, suppositions or opinions.  I am profoundly disappointed in this individual but I’m forced to comply as I never intended to visit harm on “them”.  Just like an extreme right wing entity, this extreme left wing entity does not wish to be exposed for “their” contributions to the bile and bullshit “they” contribute and therefore pollute with.  How sad.

So, I took it upon myself to leave a special comment at the end.  A letter in response to the multiple private emails I received from “they”.

Five or six years ago, long before I birthed brainspank, I only posted my blogs on myspace, after 40,000 reads I decided it was time for my own blog and that’s another story, except that one person I met on myspace had started “their” own blog and invited me to become a featured writer.  If memory serves correct, I was “their” very first featured writer.  That blog was *************** and I was both thrilled and flattered when asked to contribute.  The ******** who masterminds *********** was and is wonderful.   “They” would quietly point out spelling and punctuation errors and with restrained discretion, shortcomings of syntax.   “They” were my inspiration for brainspank and I’m grateful.  I would urge you to visit “their” site often as it has become a cornucopia of all things left.

Anyway, somehow *********** escaped my periphery for a few years.  “They” often objected to my rough language and “name calling”, I was respectful despite no one ever entertaining such criticism of brilliants like Matt Taibi, PJ O’Rourke or the Godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson.   Trust me when I tell you I’m not by any means equating myself with these rock stars.  But it is perhaps for those reasons that I was eventually eclipsed permanently from “their” purview.  So be it.

I stumbled on **********just recently and took it upon myself to ask if “they” might still be interested in submissions from me.  “They” answered thus:

I’ve had to, out of respect and discretion, remove the actual quote from her letter after “”they” took pains to remind me that there was a privacy disclaimer attached.  What “they” said in essence was that “they” weren’t interested in my opinions if I was still a merely a Democrat.  “They” stated that “they” were far more interested in viewpoints of a Socialist or Marxist nature and that “they” refused to support any Democrats until they become more left.

“They” also reminded me that “they” always objected to my name calling and that in light of these two conflicts, “they” weren’t interested in posting my pieces.  “They” did ad that it wasn’t personal.  It pains me to have to redact the actual words of the subject of this piece but I must…….

I began a letter to “them” that I’ve since decided made for a better piece here.  “Their” name is ***** and “they” is a dear.  Of course, I intend to share this with “them”:

The world swirls in compelling ways and I find it odd to be denied a voice because I’m not far left enough.  I respect your stance but respectfully and with no small amount of conviction disagree.  Change is what we all desire and need without a doubt, but I fear that those of your stripe fail to understand that no matter what your actions, change will only come incrementally at best.

I’ve often struggled with it and this is the conclusion I’ve come to.  Despite endorsing a degree of socialism, I’ve come to understand that it’s not the sum of inaction and a lack of sincerity by the left that somehow manifests the prevailing contemporary malaise, but rather the perversion, vehemence and ignorant vitriol consistently fomented and deliberately foisted by the hard right and the ridiculous left that is the existential threat to freedom and liberty.  A phenomenon that’s succeeded in making those very words dirty to any cognizant patriot.  You will not ever in your lifetime get another president as well intentioned or as efficacious as Mr. Obama.  Trust me, it’s our last, best shot and we are fucking it up.  For fuck’s sake, wake the hell up.  The way things are trending, your beliefs and the message you seek to propagate are dangerously demagogue congruent with the loony right and they will only continue to fall on ears more and more deaf until they are marginalized into extinction.

Or, such chronic and insidious ideology will rent us asunder.

I’m hoping for the former.

I hate to tell you this, but the sublimation you seek to advance is dead in the water, particularly when the entire American zeitgeist of pendulum is swinging so egregiously opposite of where you are.  All it accomplishes is the whacking of the hornet’s nest.  Politics, like it or not, is both the science and art of compromise and those of you that insist on staking out the socialist and/or Marxist positions are as deleterious to the advance of America’s progress as your diametric counterparts.  In too many ways, extreme right and extreme left serve only to pollute what otherwise might be a vital and viable national discourse.  I appreciate the spirit and understand that your intentions are good but you have become as big a component of the problem as the problem itself.  You’re not doing anybody any favors and your efforts are naive at best and often more corrosive to a scenario that is rapidly becoming one of worse case.

Yep, I still call them out and I still call them names.  I still do that because it’s not far beyond as very much as I can do.  A fucktard is a fucktard.  An asshole is still an asshole.  Forgive me for saying as much but it too seems to be a systemic flaw in how all of our movers and shakers conduct themselves.  Polite isn’t about to get shit done. Polite doesn’t make a difference, it doesn’t accomplish anything and no one pays attention.  It hasn’t for a long time and I’m not sure it ever will again.  Sarah Palin is a dipshit.  Sharron Angle is an abject idiot.  John Boehner is a deliberately disingenuous dickhead, Newt Gingrich is a goddamn lying piece of shit political opportunist, and Christie O’Donell is fucking embarrassing.

Take exception to that.

You know I hope, that I respect you ******, you were one of the very first people to amplify my voice as a featured writer back in the early days of ***********.  I have grown and it’s obvious you have too.  Sincere congratulations to you.  You’re a smart ******** and I can’t help but admire your altruism; I know and understand that you are the real deal.  If only there were a million more like you.

But there isn’t, and that is the salient point.  The segment of American political society you endeavor to represent barely exists at all.  The fight you choose to fight is an honorable one but you do more harm than good.  Discretion is after all, the better part of valor.  It just doesn’t work the way you wish it would or think it should.  When you come from the left with the very word “Marxist”, you inevitably compromise anything and everything.

I would only ask that you allow the more pragmatic among us to lend a voice to what you do.  Yes, I’m a Democrat, but my reasons are far more practical than ideological.  I want change and I’m willing to bet I want it as bad as you, I honestly think I realize something you don’t.  An admitted Socialist/Marxist bent will get you nowhere in this country, particularly in the context of the current racist and rampant phobic fervor.  That position, as stated, will automatically guarantee an ignorant, pissed off, recalcitrant reaction.

I honestly think you are blowing it.

The Beverly Hillbillies think we’re all communists and it’s because of you.  You overestimate them and they’re scared shitless of you and the rest of us that just want health care and for the wars to end and for us all to have a goddamn job.

I’m not so much about my position as as I am about attacking the other side.  Yep, I’m a Democrat, but what I do is tear away at the plutocrats and the corporatists.  I loathe them. They disgust me.  What you entertain is too far left to ever even aspire for difference. What it is is Utopian and unrealistic.

I am here to tell you that you’re part of the problem, you cannot help or hope to effect change.  Throw the words “Marxism” or “Socialism” in front of any group of Americans, any at all, and you lose before you begin.

Good luck with that.

This once great country has become lamentably polarized and it’s the twin engines of the far right and left that supply the horsepower, unless that is mitigated and calmed somehow by those under the aegis of courage to occupy the center for the sake of the greater good, we all lose.

Sometimes it requires bigger balls to fight fire with reason as opposed to more fire.

Drinks for my friends.

THE PROMISED LETTER:


******,

Your words my dear, your words……….

I will not take it down but I will remove all references to you and your blog in a way that I doubt you will view as kind.

I believe I’ve made the necessary redactions.  Let me know if they aren’t to your satisfaction.

On a personal note, I am so profoundly disappointed in you.  For you to say that Democrats are the same as the Republicans who overtly foment hate and racism and the completely obvious politics of fear and division is an indefensible position for you to take.  They hate and actively participate against minorities and women.  Hello Islamaphobia.  But we’re all the same.  Give me a goddamn break.  I know you and you are are or were smarter and more compassionate than this.  SHAME on you.  You have angered me on a number of levels, not the least of which is your paranoia for being held responsible and/or accountable for the political and social positions you so advocate and find so precious.  What the fuck is that all about?

I put myself out there because it’s what I think and believe.  I say what I think, damn the torpedos and I take all comers.

What are you so afraid of and from whence came your cowardice and intellectual irresponsibility?

Of course both parties are owned and operated by the same corporations.  Duh.  It’s a plutocracy!  It’s been that way for a century or more but you seek to refute all good things Democrats have done despite that and brand them the same as the the carcinogenic efforts of Republicans over the same period of time.  Do I need to school you about things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, overtime pay, a forty hour work week and overtime pay?  Stem cell research, civil rights etc…….  Would you like me to go on?  And on and on and on?  I could and you know it, just as easily as I could make the case for Democratic sympathy for a socialist agenda.

What happened to you that allows you to believe that somehow the the extreme, hard left has a chance in hell of saving us from anything?  Goddamnit ******, nobody is fucking listening to your whiny, elitist, ridiculous, pie in the sky bullshit and none will until you start your own country and then you’ll consume yourselves fighting over what brand of kitty litter is the most ecologically friendly while the entire planet is on fire.

In the meantime, the hard right is gaining momentum by painting us all the same as you

When it’s all said and done  I hope your legacy will have more to do with kitty litter than the various wrenches you insist on throwing in the works of progress.  Thanks in advance.

I’m a a hardcore lefty but you people are off the charts.  There is a game on here and I’m in it.  You are not and you clearly have no intention of even watching the score.  I have the courage of my convictions and you don’t.  You hide.  You people sit not on the bench but behind it and you piss and moan about not being taken seriously.

If you really had the courage of your convictions you’d post all of this on your blog.  You won’t because you don’t.

It’s like you’re afraid of exactly what you want to say.  You’ve lost me.

If you’re going to talk about it, be about it.  I can’t believe the hoops I’ve jumped through because you’re so callow.  My blog is now scrubbed clean of you and it looks ridiculous.  You’re welcome.

I think we’re done here.  I might just be as sad as you.

Michael

A Jar Full of Glass Disguised As A Rant

It’s hard to spot if you’re not looking for it.

The positions taken by the GOP as a whole in the last two years, just might win them a short term game.  They’ve never been adept at long term thinking anyway, so yep.  On the wrong side of Civil Rights for example.  Social Security, Medicare…..I could go on and on.  Contrary to widely held belief, they’re shitty with budgets too; they make Democrats look Fisher Price.

But now they’re a new kind of crazy.

They’ve been infused.  The hopelessly corrupt even further corrupted.

Their policies aren’t just short term, they’re next week.  Something has changed.  You all know what it is because you keep seeing more of it and it’s disturbing.  Often it’s just a vague intangible fugue that you lose a little sleep over or it gnaws annoyingly at you during your commute.  Just as often it is so in your face you can’t wait to wipe your glasses or clean your windshield.

But you have to look for it.

Some forty plus percent of Republicans now believe Obama is some kind of secret Muslim after attacking his alleged brand of Christianity just two short years ago.  Like it makes one bit of difference.  I don’t give a mad fuck because organized religion is nothing more than Santa Clause for adults.

This time they don’t care that it will be short lived.  It doesn’t matter that their actions will come back on them soon.  How many of these fuckers are all about an apocalypse now?  Teabaggers led by the nose by the faux religilous/ corporate avaricious.  So loony, they even creep out their surrogate party.  There is a fracturing and neither is worth a shit without the other.  Harbingers of divide and demise.  I believe they’ve begun to understand that although they can seize power, they can’t hold it so it’s a race to gain as much control as possible before what they think of as The Ultimate Conflict and their own inevitable dissolve.

They speed for the bottom because they forget to breathe through their noses and they are willfully ignorant.  Because they hate and they’re good with that.  Distrust of anyone different and discrimination as comfort food.

Maybe you don’t have to look for it.

Sounds crazy but I’m not kidding.  These people are dead nuts.  When they sit in chairs in an emergency room or even a free health clinic they think of red white and blue on foil flags or handlebar streamers or one of those giant plastic cups you get at a fast food joint.  Nationalism, which doesn’t sound nearly as bad as socialism.  Or racism.  And Jesus.  They never fail to invoke Jesus even though they are the biggest hypocrites and most egregious liars to ever leave a foot print.

Oh shut up.  I realize there are good people from both faiths.  Good and evil.  Democrat and Republican.  Get it?

Just because you’re a Republican doesn’t mean you’re a racist, but if you’re a racist, I bet you’re a Republican.  Same thing kinda works for religion.  They all wear patriotism and religion like it’s a flag.  Who they are and what those concepts mean are mutually exclusive.

“When fascism comes to America, will it come wrapped in the flag, and carrying a cross?” -Sinclair Lewis

They would burn the Koran and prevent a community center that includes places of worship for all faiths including Jews and Christians.  A community center that’s not even visible from ground zero while they conveniently forget that people from all faiths, including Islam, lost their own that day.  They ignore that there was a Mosque in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.  I guess they own the patent on grief and bereavement even though their very own murder doctors in churches during services.

I guess maybe you don’t have to look for it.

But seriously folks, this new germ is not here to play in the street.  The same people that march vigorously with vacant eyes and open mouthed aplomb for our constitution and lower taxes openly challenge our first and fourteenth amendment while exploiting the second, can’t wrap their heads around the fact that they themselves are taxed at rates from a half century ago.  They are incredibly fucking stupid but they are dangerous.

It’s quite possible I tell you, in my best Rush Limbaugh conspiratorial tone, that the tea party seeks dominance because it wants to hasten the end of times.  Everyone one of them will claim at least to be the religiously zealous goofcocks they are.  I’ve made my case.  It’s rather obvious don’t you think?  Brought to you from the covert left wing of the EIB Network, home of the Human Shitsmear.

The generic GOP politico wants to be just that and they have all been so leaderless and rudderless that they were easily hijacked by a group of intellectual bed wetters (I swear I didn’t steel this from Bill Maher).  Now the chronic urinators walk the hen house.  It’s ridiculous.  The generic GOP politico doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind.

They all fucking suck.

All of them either stupid or coward or both.

Yet here we are again, the whole vulgar act being taken too seriously by dumb ass Americans that pride themselves for the opposite.

Goddamn people are stupid.

Drinks for my friends.

Ecumenical Prowess

There’s no question that this fucktard down in Gainesville Florida who wants to burn the Koran is an abject idiot.  There’s no doubt that such an empty headed and bigoted stunt will inflame anti-American sentiment and therefore increase the risk faced by all our troops and even citizens of this country abroad and at home.  His “church” has less than fifty members.  That he matters and is able to somehow command worldwide fascination concusses my gag reflex.  The man is an egomaniacal  dipshit.

But still.  We’ve all got our panties in a self righteous bunch over the danger he represents to us all when it’s our own actions and policies that built the stage and carpentered the proscenium for this bullshit to occur on top of and underneath.  This is fucking stupid.  Islam didn’t start this.  Terrorists who happened to be Muslim did.  Ask yourself where we’d be if they were the same stripe of Christian fundamentalists who murder innocent abortion providers in churches in the name of God and Christ.  Think about that because they are all the same.

Karl Marx said that religion is the opiate for the masses.  Oh shit, he was a commie.

Defense Sec. Robert Gates called whackjob Terry Jones personally and General David Petraeus waded in as well as the pointy hatted Pontiff hisself.  This is absurd.  For Patraeus and Gates to pay or lend attention to this charlatan is bad enough.  For either of them to pretend that he’s one microbe worse than either of them should insult the intelligence of anyone paying attention.  The war in Iraq was wrong.  Hundreds of thousands if not more died because we lied to ourselves or allowed ourselves to be lied to.  The war in Afghanistan accomplishes nothing.  It is in fact, an egregious human deficit.  We make it worse by by being there everyday.  Hundreds of thousands will die and we will have accomplished measurably less there than we did Iraq, if that’s even possible once the shouting is over.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Duh.

These wars and these men prosecuting them are our most exclusive and challenging petard.

They would have us believe that this goofcock would mitigate American interest in peace more than them?  Blow me.

As for the Pope, who gives a mad fuck?  Like he or the Catholic church could possibly be trusted as the arbiter of anything.  Morality?  Ethics?  Decency?  You’ve got to be fucking kidding.

They are all merely a punchline and this is all incredibly stupid because we are the joke.  If you’re paying attention, you get that.

Drinks for my friends.

Just talk about it…..

America has become her own sin.

Two wars.  One for no reason at all and another who’s reason is lost.

The richest country in the world can’t pay for itself, but she she can still afford to send her children to die and kill.

While her people can’t find work.

There are five people hoping for every job available.

I know a woman who’s childhood friend is days or hours from dying.  Cancer.  She has two sons in college and no father.  She tells me she can’t afford to pay attention.  I get it.  But she is it.  It’s not me.  It’s her.  She is gorgeous.  She’s tough, but she doesn’t know who or what the speaker of the house is.  She should, but she doesn’t care.  She’s not at all concerned that a dickhead like Boehner might be in charge and how that will impact her life and her ability to keep her boys in school as well as maybe her own health insurance.

She is it though.  It’s not just the youth vote, it’s the vanishing middle class.  If they don’t engage, it’s all over but the shouting.

Life can be bullshit but that doesn’t stop a single one of us.  Humans never stop pushing and pulling.  We can’t help it.  Men are dicks and women are bitches.  We are all so foul.  Dirty.  polluted.   Infected.

The disconnect widens and deepens because regular Americans believe they have no hope of making a difference.

It’s hard to blame them.

Ask yourself what you want.  Think about what happens if you get it.  If you win, who loses?

Say for example you get a high paying job with a military industrial contractor.  You feed your kids.  Your wife drives a Volvo and you speed around in an Audi.  The Mexican gardeners get paid.  Your parents are proud.  At the end of the day, you kill brown people for a living.  People like you.  People just like you.  Your neighbors and business associates share their holidays and their children’s birthday parties with you.

Or, you drive a beat to shit Honda and people like you.  People just like you.  You have parties at your house with a cake from Costco and you get your prescriptions from Walmart.  You hate that redneck Republican in the next cubicle but he’s a nice guy and he makes one helluva bean dip.

Where are we?  Who are we and what have we become?

The worst of us host events where the Koran will be burned.  The worst among us seek to prevent a community center being built on private property in the city of New York despite the obvious provisions and express intent of the very first and arguably most important amendment to our constitution.  The same idiots  think our president is some secret Muslim Socialist out to destroy America.  The willfully ignorant and the chronic, untreatable and stupid.  I cannot begin to describe how I loathe such people.  My disgust is profound and complete.

My disdain robs me of my own breath.  If you’re reading this and you merely flirt with any of these concepts, fuck you in the neck.

I understand that America has it’s life to live.  I get that you need to get through the day.  I understand that most you have children and families.  But you still are the most privileged, spoiled people on the planet.  Black or white, brown or callow.  Maybe we don’t deserve our largess.  So be it.  Keep tolerating this shit.  Maintain that straight face.  Look away.  Let the rich get richer and the poor get poorer while the middle class evaporates into the ether.  By the time you cannot possibly afford tuition for your kids, by the time you get cancer from the chemical company dumping glowing shit in your water supply because of deregulation, by the time you can barely drive a road or over a bridge in your fossil fueled car because of it’s egregious disrepair, by that time it will be too goddamn late.

Your earth will be too hot, you government will only pay for the wealthy to be protected from you because you want to storm their gates while your gums bleed and your teeth are loosening in their sockets and your pockets are full of BBQ sauce.

That time is today.  We are here.  It is now.  Or vote Republican………….

Drinks for my friends.

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