Is anybody else feeling like this?
I wonder if I am the only one?
I always imagined I would be here for my whole lifetime. Maybe I would travel a bit, but my home would be here. I also thought that the house I live in now would probably be the one I would have for the rest of my life. I do like it very much. I even bought a few things- a neat fireplace screen (one of those stained glass ones), a sofa, a love-seat, a chair and ottoman. A nice mirror. In my late 40's, for the first time in my life, I bought real furniture! Serious stuff!
And now?
All my plans for a cozy old age are gone. I have no idea where I will be. This cute home is no longer in the plans. I just don't think that the US is going to be safe or comfortable anymore for ordinary people like me. It seems that it's being taken over by wild-eyed, crazed Christian Republican wacko fanatics, and that scares me. They have no qualms about lying, cheating- doing anything bad, to accomplish their control of this country.
Sometimes I forget the fear and begin to relax. I don't like to hear or see the news much because it nearly paralyses me with this ugly, creepy feeling, reminiscent of the horror I first felt in junior high school when we had to learn about the Holocaust and see those terrible photos of the piles of emaciated dead bodies.
I manage to stuff the fear into the back of my mind, so that I can carry on with daily life. But sometimes it just won't stay back there and comes oozing forward. Like today when I read about what Michelle Bachmann said about Obama.
I wonder what all those years we spent in the 60's and 70's were worth-were they for naught? Where did the kindness and love we longed for go? Didn't McCarthyism end a long time ago?
Do people not learn anything in school? How old is Ms. Bachmann? Did she learn about Hitler, about anything? What happened to love and peace? Do the younger generations know what the 60's were about? Why do I find myself living in what in the 60's would have been our worst nightmare?
How can anybody support McCain?
The thing that shocked me most about him is what he said during that last debate when asked what he would do if Iran attacked Israel, if he would engage in diplomatiic talks or just strike, and he replied something to the effect that he'd strike and not bother talking at all!
My God...this is so outrageous. This is unthinkeable. After hearing that, how could ANYBODY vote for this man? And his sidekick Palin, the huntress, is just like him. These "war-hawks", as we would have called them in the 60's, are worse than anybody! Not even try to talk it out? Not even try to avoid an armed conflict?
Even Republicans who blindly sccept the Imperialistic attitude that the US is the "policeman of the world" and should go around teaching other countries "lessons"...they should not accept McCain's irrational, reactionary insane idea,if only because our military is already worn out, underpaid, ill-equipped and not taken care of properly by the VA system. (Yes the VA does the best it can and I do appreciate it but they cannot do enough). We cannot fight in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan AND Iran, and who knows what will come up next month? There simply isn't the money for this..if you even think it is not appalling to even think about another conflict in the first place!
Michelle Bachmann is the worst of the worst, an unthinking, screeching, crude, cruel, witch-hunting maniac. She represents all that is wrong with the US right now. She backs McCain and Palin the war mongers, she is willing to engage in scare tactics and exaggerations to help the fascist right win.
Will this become the Fascist States of America?