My soul seethes with anger. And I wish to lash out at
Americans who embrace our dangerous and idiotic gun culture. Those who see bloodshed,
a society awash in domestic horror and daily death by the bullet, and not only
refuse to quash it, but believe the answer to a nation terrorized by the rifle,
pistol and assault weapon is to ensure that even more people are armed to the
teeth – mental state or criminal record be damned. They deserve neither my
respect, nor my regard, but rather my disdain. Such willful ignorance and
acceptance and endorsement of gun violence is grievous folly and hazardous
futility, and those who hold such unenlightened and perilous philosophies
should be ostracized by any civilized culture and be exposed for the
treacherous fools that they are.
Another day, another two school shootings, such is life in
the United States of the NRA. This country suffers from a fatal illness, its
addiction to guns combined with a fear and loathing of everything - a destructive
and detrimental attitude exhorted by the corporate courtesans that are the
Republican members of Congress, through orders of their pimp bosses of big
business who line their pockets and control every word, deed and vote of these
D.C. whores.
This blog has always been satirical in nature, with a goal
to uncover the humor in the political and social situations in which we find
ourselves. Today, you will discover no joviality in this installment for there
is very little in the actions and activities of the citizens of this modern day
Dogpatch; which at one time was looked upon as a beacon to, and the greatest
hope of, a world often in strife. But
that was a different America, an America as envisioned and set in place by our
founders - worldly, curious, intelligent, forward thinking, well-read, intellectual
men who, while holding almost a god-like place in the hearts of Americans,
would in reality be castigated, ridiculed and hated by many of the current
generation who truly have no grasp of our history, nor a clue of what an
American really is.
As a nation, we have evolved from a republic to our current
identity as an idiocracy, and are well on the road to a combination of
theocracy and plutocracy. Although, of
course, the plutocrats have little interest or belief in things religious or
spiritual, they merely use the sacred as a weapon against the devout to win
over their trust and their vote, no matter how contradictory to their
self-interest.
Welcome to the United States of America, land of the violent
ignoramus, where education is considered unnecessary, snobby and elitist. Where
Right Wing lies told in repetition are accepted as truths and actual truths are
negated, rejected and condemned as Liberal propaganda. Once a forward thinking and progressive country,
now turned backward land where long agreed upon scientific facts are at first
questioned and then rebuffed in favor of millennia old superstition conceived
by an ancient peoples lacking in scholarship, and with an agenda to control
behaviors through an invented system of morality and a vicious and vengeful
god. Where history is ignominiously ignored, if not entirely rewritten, and we
learn nothing from the dumb and dangerous mistakes of the past, but to repeat
them, time and again; and where violence is regarded as the proper response to
every situation.
I no longer have any patience for people who oppose the very
reasonable gun regulations of universal background checks to close the internet
and gun show loopholes, and the banning of automatic assault weapons, a
favorite cause of their GOP deity, Ronald Wilson Reagan. After the obscene series of mass shootings
that continually bombard the U.S. on a regular basis, if you oppose these procedures,
you are contemptable; at best, an accessory to these heinous and frequent
crimes, at worst, as guilty as those who pull the triggers.
Perhaps it may not appear so, but I love this country. I
love this country as it should be, as it was intended to be, as Jefferson and
Adams and Madison designed it to be. What I abhor is this bastardization that
these, not particularly, United States are becoming; maintaining a specific repugnance
for the mean-spirited and selfish in positions of power who twist our founder’s
intents for their own ugly benefit; and
the increasingly pathetically and proudly stupid citizenry who align themselves
with this villainy and happily allow it to happen. But there is hope. I still hold out hope. As
long as there is a Declaration of Independence, a Constitution and a Bill of
Rights, there is hope that this floundering, and in many ways failing, ship of
state can be righted once again. There is hope. But until we the people
educate ourselves to truths, facts, history and reality, rather than accepting
the vile prevarications and propaganda of those who wish to control us, that
hope seems utterly and excruciatingly unattainable.
