Politics
At its roots, politics is about keeping power at any cost.
The founders of our nation believed they had crafted a document that would stand against the sociopathic bent of previous generations of man's tyranny.
It has withstood the test of the past 200 years until it met those with no faith in government.
Those who hate people.
Those who have had no faith in the institutions of government have always been in the shadows.
In past centuries, they were called anarchists.
Individuals in movements that believed you had to burn the barn down to save the cows.
The individuals found like minds who thought it more comfortable to destroy than to build.
Building means profit.
A belief in slashing and burning the past to secure the future.
To throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Acceptable casualties.
It's what gave us the First World War.
A war between aristocrats who used the lives of the common man as their toilet paper.
The anarchists learned from their defeat and transformed themselves into nihilists.
Nihilism is the belief that humanity and all of its efforts amount to nothing.
Why bother.
Why work for a better world?
What stands in the way of us having nice things is people who don't like you and me.
The nihilist doesn't like people.
A type of nihilism created Fascism, which rose against communities of workers who wanted an equal footing with the ownership class.
Fascism arose to counteract the rise of Trade Unions.
Fascists, the attack dogs who tore into the throats of organized labor at the 'dog whistle' of the institution of capitalism.
Only the best need apply, and so the German people followed their new modern sociopath into yet another world war brought to us by national white elitists.
The fascists lost that bout yet again, but they were not down for the count.
They organized for a rematch.
Those who hate humanity but love themselves realized maybe they were too bold.
They sank like a heavy anchor into the depths of society.
There, they whispered into the ears of those who would listen.
We can give you power.
We can restore your homeland.
Your homeland...
We can make America great again.
They found ears, hearts, and minds willing to absorb their doctrine in conservative America.
Using the goodwill of people, they leveraged their innate fear of change to slowly but surely construct a platform of intolerance.
They found a voice in Ronald Regan, who said the government was the problem.
They found a movement in fiscal conservatism.
The Tea Party.
Neo-Conservatism.
They found tax dodgers, racists, and evangelicals, all who had a common ground.
They hate people.
They didn't want "change."
Who was responsible for forcing the silent majority to change?
The black, the brown, women, the queer, the liberal, the godless.
Nihilism took hold of the pumping heart of the Republican Party, emptied its red blood, and transfused it with hate.
Let the government become so weak that we can drown it in a bathtub became the cry.
Then something strange happened quite recently…
Life.
A virus.
It didn't care what the politics of the day were.
It didn't care if you believed in it or not.
As if it were tailor-made for the day at hand, it has the ability to trim the fringe.
Those who don't believe in science have been trimmed.
Those who don't believe in community have been trimmed.
Those who don't believe in government trimming.
Those who believe no one has the right to tell them no, it has been trimmed.
Our bodies our choice?
Our bodies our choice!
Kind of ironic...
Most of us, dare I say a majority, believe that we should all work together to save ourselves, which will save the world, right?
If we go out too soon, we risk making the second, the third, the fourth wave even bigger than it should be if we all could practice some self-control.
Balance the good of the many with the good for a few.
Our bodies our choice!
Our bodies our choice!
Burn the barn to save the cows?
Ridiculous rhetoric of the past, but the current policy of the GOP.
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby