Darkness, Darkness ...

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As a parent, rage and sorrow knows no bounds. Corrupt, self-serving politicians hoovering for money and mouthing platitudes of "We are praying for you." is insulting, condescending and total crap. America's floundering. From the SC on the precipice of gutting Roe to the far-right truncating, in plain sight, citizens' rights, the country's very existence is threatened at a point greater than the civil war as at that time, there was at least a sense of country. Now, there's a sense of madness while the wheels fall off of a once great country known as America.

Why do we tolerate healthcare so expensive, when a $5000 copay is not out of hand for a sizable minority of the populace. Why do we allow gerrymandering and the notion of no term limits for Congress and the SC where corruption increases without limits, while the public languishes in poor health and penniless thanks to our so-called healthcare system. Why do we tolerate no background checks when someone buys a gun, or a requirement that insurance and training are required before buying a gun. You have to insure and register a car so why not guns?

The list goes on and on yet we allow this shit to happen and both parties are in on the con. Nothing is being done and just wait until after the midterms. Jesus, paranoia and the loss of privacy loom thanks to a bastardized SC, ready to enslave 50% of the population even though 70% of the public wants Roe left alone. A fascist theocracy awaits while GW & the 6th great extinction continues 24/7.

Something to think about, right?

There’s a new couple at my little European dog park. They’re from Texas. We? We arrived back after a year in the States — a long, dislocating year. The couple from Texas had a little funny black dog named Jackson. And before I could even commiserate about something unspeakable — the massacre of little kids — they asked me: “How’s the healthcare here?” “Well, you probably won’t get a million dollar medical bill,” I said, half-kidding. The man laughed, and the woman sighed in relief. “I just got one for $5000 before we left!”

America’s collapsing at light speed. The pace has accelerated so far out of control it’s hard to even keep up anymore. The last month in American collapse alone? The repeal of Roe vs Wade. A society of citizen-vigilantes deputized against…women. High school students who — literally — can’t say the word “gay” during their graduation speeches. Then a massacre, at the hands of a fascist. Then another massacre, this time, of little children.

Who can keep up with this horror? This insanity? And so Americans have gone blank. They bear all the hallmark signs of trauma. Dead eyes, blank faces, “blunted affect.” Their society is crashing down around them. And those of us who warned? Well, we were called everything from “alarmists” to “charlatans.” We were the best minds America had. And it betrayed us, I suppose, in the way it often does — from people like James Baldwin to Sarah Kendzior to little old me.

George Carling was right "Nobody seems to care."

Darkness, Darkness - Jesse Colin Young