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 that 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.
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, the belief that humanity and all of its efforts amounted to nothing.
Why bother.
Why work for a better world?
What stands in the way of us having nice things are people not like you and me.
A type of nihilism created Fascism, which rose against communities of workers who wanted an equal footing with the ownership class.
Fascists, the attack dogs who tore into the throats of organized labor at the command 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 elitists.
The fascists lost that round yet again, but they were not down long for the count.
Those that 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 that would listen.
We can give you power.
We can restore 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, using their innate fear of change, they slowly but surely carved out a platform of intolerance.
They found a voice in Regan who said, government was the problem.
They found a movement in fiscal conservatism.
The Tea Party.
Neo-Conservatism.
They found tax dodgers, racists, evangelicals, all who had a common ground.
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.
They took hold of the pumping heart of the Republican Party and 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…
A virus.
It didn't care what the politic of the day was.
It didn't care if you believed in it or not.
As if it were tailored made for the day at hand, it has the ability to trim the fringe.
Those that don't believe in science it has trimmed.
Those that don't believe in community it has trimmed.
Those that don't believe in government it is trimming.
Those that don't believe anyone has the right to tell them no, it has trimmed.
I've tried to give an answer to the question I hear people asking...
Where have these people come from that are complaining about staying home?
Our bodies are choice?
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 I should be if we all could practice some self-control.
Burn the barn to save the cows?
Ridiculous rhetoric of the past but the current policy of the GOP.
Politics.
Peace
DFrey
