Every day Trump's viscous ineptitude turns another 10,000 right-wing voters to the left. Four years of pain will leave a country craving fairness and decency.
The spotlight of media (and of some politicians) focuses on the decisions of those at or near the top, because we're human and we need to get our information distilled way the heck down from the complications of reality. That leaves a lot of very real factors invisible ... but their effects can still be seen, as we can "see" the wind by watching the waving of the branches of trees.
America's days are filled with simple acts of decency and kindness, all invisible from far enough away. If you are only watching Those In Power, the aggregate of those acts can be observed in how their simplest actions seem weighed down, difficult, and often seem to collapse for no particular reason.
In part that may well be because these folks are idiots ... but when somebody (naming no names) complains "Who knew it was so complicated?" I sense the ruffling of a very stiff breeze of fundamental American character, quietly blowing down the houses of cards that fascists wish to build.
Each day every American is given a a ticket in the mail. One they have accumulated enough tickets they can cash them in for valuable prizes including basic income, free healthcare, an inflatable raft, and a retirement not backed by the stock market.
So far millions of Americans have cashed in these tickets, and there is no end in sight to their Grit.
And we need to believe the little lies, like hogfathers and toothfaries, as practice to believe the big lies, like American Exceptionalism, The First Amendment, and unvanquished liberty spitting in the face of petty tyrants?
I can't.
ReplyDeleteJosh Mannon I'll take to mean you are in need of the same lies I am.
ReplyDeleteSome free people make their home here. Everyone else is really brave.
ReplyDeleteEverything's going to be OK, William Nichols the power of a people can change the tide of Fachism. And people are prepared and committed to do it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I want that I watch the West Wing. Though flawed, it inevitably invigorates your sense of hope in democracy. For me, anyways.
ReplyDeleteNone of these read as lies to me.
ReplyDeleteEvery day Trump's viscous ineptitude turns another 10,000 right-wing voters to the left. Four years of pain will leave a country craving fairness and decency.
ReplyDeleteThat's the sort of lie I'm looking for, Brian Ashford!
ReplyDeleteSo long as tyrants die, liberty will never perish!
ReplyDeleteThe spotlight of media (and of some politicians) focuses on the decisions of those at or near the top, because we're human and we need to get our information distilled way the heck down from the complications of reality. That leaves a lot of very real factors invisible ... but their effects can still be seen, as we can "see" the wind by watching the waving of the branches of trees.
ReplyDeleteAmerica's days are filled with simple acts of decency and kindness, all invisible from far enough away. If you are only watching Those In Power, the aggregate of those acts can be observed in how their simplest actions seem weighed down, difficult, and often seem to collapse for no particular reason.
In part that may well be because these folks are idiots ... but when somebody (naming no names) complains "Who knew it was so complicated?" I sense the ruffling of a very stiff breeze of fundamental American character, quietly blowing down the houses of cards that fascists wish to build.
I'm not positive these are lies.
ReplyDeleteEach day every American is given a a ticket in the mail. One they have accumulated enough tickets they can cash them in for valuable prizes including basic income, free healthcare, an inflatable raft, and a retirement not backed by the stock market.
ReplyDeleteSo far millions of Americans have cashed in these tickets, and there is no end in sight to their Grit.
The First Amendment is pretty great.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nichols: Of course they're lies, if only of hugely aggressive omission.
ReplyDeleteWe aspire to make them true.
And we need to believe the little lies, like hogfathers and toothfaries, as practice to believe the big lies, like American Exceptionalism, The First Amendment, and unvanquished liberty spitting in the face of petty tyrants?
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