I started seeing the memes on 9/10, but I had been thinking about it, mostly in the back of my mind, for days. However when tears started to flow re-reading the story of Brian Sweeney's voicemail to his wife, I was a little surprised. It came in my email from Daily Stoic, I'll add a link at the end (memory allowing! lol). I just can't read the transcript of that voicemail without tearing up, as the Daily Stoic points out, it's full of love, no fear, no anger, just love. It's just so beautiful.
It reminded me of how most Americans came together that day and in the weeks after. I say most because I am sure our Muslim community didn't feel the same, as Americans (and to be fair, most humans) are prone to do, many still had us/them mentality. Many of us can't separate the actions of a few members of a community from the community itself. But the rest of America was united and it felt good. There's safety in numbers, right? We lack that now. The country is so divided and we can't even agree on who to blame for that. MAGA would have you believe it's the Democrats, but all you have to do is listen to the words coming out of each side....whose words are full of hope of a better future? whose works look to the past and are full of attacks and grievances? Who speaks highly of America and what we are capable of? Who calls us a third world country?
I'll never consider "woke" an insult. They can't even define woke. To me woke is understanding that EVERYONE is entitled to the same freedoms, to love who they want, to marry who they want, to have the right to make decisions about their body, to not use racist language, to be kind to everyone regardless of what God they worship or if they don't worship at all, to understand that minorities have different experiences than white males, to not want to die in a mass shooting because we can't make laws stating not everyone should be allowed to own a gun.
It is mind boggling that the people who claim they want small government are ok with banning books but not ok banning domestic abusers from owning guns. It's mind boggling that people claim to be Christian while villifying homeless people and immigrants (pretty sure Jesus was both).
I am writing this and wondering about the pointlessness of it all. There's literally 30% (hopefully not more) of Americans that are unreachable. They worship a liar. They worship a con man. They idolize a rapist, adulterer, fraudster and just a generally nasty, angry, unintelligent man. They watch him and see something that is completely different than what the rest of us see. How do you get through to them? Will anything open their eyes? I don't think so and yet so many of the most outspoken against him did vote for him in 2016, they then saw him for what he is...why can't the rest see it?
I'd like to say that I am sure Kamala Harris will crush him in this election, I know she'll win the popular vote in a landslide, but unfortunately, the archaic (and racist, look up the true history) electoral college can fuck it all up, as it has done many times. But even if she wins, where do we go from there? He needs to be held accountable for all of the crimes he's been indicted for, but that just keeps him in the news cycle and will further enrage his base.
I can tell you I have never felt threatened walking past a Haitan, no worry that they will eat my cats....but walking past an insanely Trump decorated house last night, I did have fear, yes it was an elderly person sitting out front, but these people have guns and are unhinged. You can't be sane and have over 30 home made signs about the Deep State and how wonderful Trump is in your front yard and NOT be unhinged. The scariest group of people in this country are not "illegals", it's young white men..and middle aged white men as a close second, followed by old white men. These are the people committing the crimes DonOLD speaks of, hell, it's the guy who (allegedly) shot him.
My idea of making America great again is to go back to when people didn't idolize a former POTUS, when in history has someone ever idolized a political figure to this extent? There is no going back, there's only forward and that's why I love Kamala's (and I mean no disrespect when I use her first name, I want to say Harris, but she's just so approachable (with that laugh they hate, and the facial expressions we can all relate to) she feels like someone who would WANT you to call her by her first name (and pronounce it correctly for fuck's sake, it's not that hard!) where was I? oh yeah that's why I love her message, she doesn't need to go high when they go low, she just wants to go forward, while they want to go back and this....motherfucker....isn't capable of seeing that that is what most Americans also want. I guarantee you that even the undecided (how are you undecided????) agree that we want to put this chapter behind us, we are all exhausted by this narcissistic asshole. We're tired of us his ugliness, inside and out.
I'm not sure I even made the point I wanted to make but hey I never promised not to ramble...and here's the link -- I remembered!! lol
https://dailystoic.com/this-is-the-antidote/
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