DAY SUNLIGHT NEVER CAME….
It was years back, as I was buried under a heavy load of grad studies, that a prof asked me about voting. I confessed quickly to being oblivious. My prof, who I respected and was a grad assistant for, was shocked and angry. She railed at me and demanded to know what kind of world I wanted, especially with ambition to provide social services. I was aghast and ashamed. But with the major medical issues, I plowed forth with a head held low, and stayed oblivious. I remember this now wanting to scream back in anger ‘why did you not stop, as a professor, to teach me about our political system that has brought us to this day of blackness, a day I feel deepest regret and sorrow. At times in life, I have shown a tendency towards being visionary. I have visions now, that are nearly unimaginable. Those visions come with shades of disaster. National and international. I could not lift my head off the pillow without weeping this day, likely not alone in this. But this is not about me and not intended to be. For that I apologize. Apologizes are in order for the young of this country and the world. Many will suffer and die due to the idiocy of voting ,into the most powerful position in a precarious world, a man of hatred, bigotry, stupidity, misogyny, who also can be diagnosed with mental illness/personality disorder, or nuts to be blunt. A lunatic, so it is offered as no excuse for his miserable barely human character. It is sheer madness.
With apology, for a dying planet, I must also implore those young persons, who will hopefully survive, to learn the system we once had that was called democracy. It is democracy no longer. Misinformation and lies have been the order of the day, for years on end, within the media. CBS CEO was elated as he spoke to a big moneyed audience saying Trump was great for profits, truth or journalism be damned. He chuckled and maybe even blushed a bit. The rest of the media were equally as giddy with profit. For this reason, you are not learning the truth. The duopoly, two party system is deeply corrupt. Political office is bought and sold, near cast in stone by the supreme court with the establishment of citizens united. Now, the supreme court is even more lost to appointees that too, are purchased. Or hand picked to serve the richest, as before.
Foreign policy is equally and even more dangerously misunderstood, through media lies, misinformation and political lines that too are lies, while the world looks back at us in utter shock and disgust. Foreign policy is further steeped by American apathy and arrogance as if we are the center of the universe. We are fools. We have allies who are brutal dictators while we herald democracy and nation building worldwide, at the end of a missile and soon new nuclear missiles or AK-47’s. We sold many billions in weaponry to the Saudi kings who are pounding the poorest middle eastern nation, Yemen, into the ground, matters not if women and children die first or last, as long as they all die. Within the country of Saudi male royalty, a supreme male can, (also called “dad”) without even slight complaint or finger wag, and only scant concern worldwide, can murder his own daughter by drowning her in the family pool as the family watches from the side lines, perhaps sipping drinks or at least in silence out of fear, horror or grief.
And Israel. Also our major ally with one of the largest lobbies in our congress, and receipt of major US funds for military aid, can occupy the lands of Palestine brutalizing the people, keeping them on near starvation diets, so as not to raise claims they are being starved, since the world does not much care about ‘almost starved people” as long as they don’t die. Through all of this fake and twisted journalism, that forms reality for most people, it is criminal, crimes against humanity, peoples we rule worldwide, through 1000 military bases and counting. What of our “policy” on torture. will the screws be turned tighter still?
Now, announced by Obama, $1.3 trillion in new tactical nuclear weapons are to be added, pointed towards Russia, while Russia responds in kind by putting their nuclear weapons in place. A game of chess in which the entire world loses. Back to the middle east, by way of wars we wage quietly, fueling bombers we fund, then we fuel in mid-air. Bombers bearing the name of Saudi Arabia makes us no safer as they call it “Obama’s war”. . We have lost diplomacy long back in favor of militarism. America wages this war without notice. We are fools.
Since we have so much military, militarism has come home. Might want to trade in a few hunting rifles for at least one family AK-47. Since our security is now more in question. What can you expect, when we tramp the world over weapons first, and now our own streets with open carry, but only for whites, since the ‘shoot to kill first’ policy of too many police countrywide (and by count) are on bodies (some with cell phone or even toy in hand) of color; Police also recipients of lots and loads of surplus military equipment, from drones, to assault weapons to tanks, in the skies & on the streets of America. We have gone from approximately 900 swat operations when first devised to handle true hostage situations to currently 40,000 or more annually. Yeah, we all need to be armed to the teeth. Watch too, the rise of the KKK and other white supremacy groups, after all, our new president is a ‘closet’ associate of said organizations. Uh-huh, and you voted for Trump to ensure our security. Be afraid. It might be the smartest thing perhaps to pack a pistol, but still will not redeem you...if you voted for Trump based upon lies and ignorance. Upon this, heap layers of vote rigging and voter suppression ala Trump bombastic bullshit and republican outrageous laws. (Every candidate should have had to stand in lines as long as some voters were forced to endure.) You are responsible and should be afraid. For you do not yet realize the world that is to come by way of a political system gone terribly awry…. One you were to learn of and participate in. Democrat or angry and careless ‘independents’ too, by the way, are responsible, but far, far more republicans to blame for this darkness that will not lift for long time to come, and maybe never if the planet does not survive.....
It is a darkest day, doom looms. It feels like 9-11 again but America has done this to itself. Along with the rest of the world. We are to blame.