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Via A (Not So) Brief Explanation
I find myself especially down this evening. It is a feeling that has been nagging me for a few weeks now. I look around and I sense a level of tension that I have never experienced before. And maybe I’ve just been overloading on the conservative conspiracy theorist blogs and political programming. But I can’t help but look around and feel uneasy about the direction our country is going. People stating how President Obama hates America. How he is a Nazi hell bent on destroying America.
Don’t get me wrong. I believe in opposition. I believe in protest. It is what makes our country great and has helped preserve our way of life for over 200 years. And I do not pretend to love everything that Obama has done so far. In fact I believe that liberals should be the first to hold his feet to the fire for the things that he does (and does not do)
But that is not what has been happening over the past 10 months. This is something else. This is something dangerous.
As much as I hated George W. Bush, as much as I disagreed with so many decisions he made, I never questioned his love of country. It was just that I disagreed with the way he chose to run the nation. The way he went about doing it. I didn’t think that he was trying to destroy the country. I did not consider him an enemy of freedom. I just thought his positions and policies were wrong for our country. But I did not think he was actively trying to destroy our way of life. We just had differing opinions.
The conservative machine, the FoxNews fear mongering has led people to believe, to truly feel that our President is not just making poor decisions or is leading us in the wrong direction, but that he is actually working towards HARMING our nation. They throw words like “revolution” and “tyranny” around like its nothing. They compare our situation to the plight of our ancestors. And they do so with no real gravity. No warnings or perspective.
When the fathers of our country endeavored upon the revolution, they did it right. They did not do it lightly. They did it with patience, with conscience, with heavy hearts. But these will not be the people who will attempt today’s revolution. The revolution Glenn Beck and FoxNews are supporting will be unhatched by hate filled morons with no idea what the fuck they are doing. The flames are being fanned for extremist conservative psychopaths who want to kill our Nazi Muslim Socialist leader. They will see no way to achieve their goal other than assassination.
And you can’t really blame them. I mean, if I truly believed in my heart and soul that my government was being run by an evil Nazi, if I actually thought that there was a psychopathic terrorist running the country, I too would be active in a revolution. But that is not the case. Yet it is what many, many people have been led to believe. And if it happens today, in our already racially and politically divided powder keg of a nation, that my friends will be the end of the United States as we know it.
What will Glenn Beck say when the unthinkable happens? Will he be happy? Will he thank the perpertator? It doesn’t really matter. Right now I live in a country where a large portion of the population would actually celebrate if the President was killed. Imagine that. Really. Imagine that happening after Kennedy was assassinated in ‘63. Imagine that after the towers fell in ‘01. It is frightening. It is appalling. But most of all, it is sad.
And I think that is what is getting me down. The fact that it feels like we’re not all in it together anymore. The idea that we are forever divided. Not just that we disagree, but that one side is right and the other side is trying to destroy us. The fact that people think that if you support Obama that you support the destruction of our country. It gets me down.
And I don’t see anything changing. The more successful Obama is the more they will scream. The more he fails the more they will fight. He can do no right in the eyes of the extremist right in this situation. I just can’t see a way that this gets any better. And this really scares the shit out of me.
