The stock market had a big sell off day before yesterday and I almost had a heart attack. So I have been thinking about how scared I am all the time.
It is true Al-Qaida and ISIS Islamic terrorist groups are indeed “horrific” – however (and I’m not exaggerating here); I am “terrified” and have been literally terrorized for the last several years by other things too.
Here are some of them:
Global warming, the heat in Phoenix, the cold in the northeast, the drought in the south and the fact that there are so many "deniers" out there, terrify me ...
The stock market and having to have my 401k’s invested in it or it gains only a few cents a year. What the hell? Every other day I am terrorized that I might lose half of my money!
Financial advisers – scare me when they say I don’t have enough and need to put more into their bank – tell me I need much more money to retire or I won't have enough. I try to visualize eating cat food - I get worried.
Republican politicians who want to do away with my Social Security benefits and my Medicare thus making me completely vulnerable as I become helpless in my old age – just terrifying!
Extremists / zealots – pushing their idealism down other’s throats and expecting to make their unconstitutional idealism law of the land; and in some States succeeding!
Hateful racists who hide their hatred underneath things like a police uniform, the Tea Party “Don’t Tread on Me” flag or a Confederate flag ….
Republican Congress members and a lot of Democratic ones too, who only work for the 1 % and put the screws to everybody else ….
The Koch Brothers, their money and their powerful influence over Federal and State politicians in favor of the oil and coal industry. Apparently they also have a huge interest in dismantling our education system and undermining all matters that liberals care about like environment, fair wages and job creation …..
Robert’s Supreme Court (SCOTUS) who implemented George W. Bush in 2000 and then nine years later implemented Citizens United laws that have literally wreaked havoc on our democracy since day one of it’s implementation …..
The “supreme” terrorist Justice Antonin Scalia – because he is so out-of-touch and no longer has his mind anymore - he does not make sense when he talks anymore ….
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker – pawn of the Koch Bros. and destroyer of Teacher’s and Labor Unions….
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey – a Corporate puppet who also hates little children, poor people, K-12 and higher education, and liberals ….
Arizona State Republican Legislators – hate woman, children, liberals, Latinos, K-12 and higher education, Obama and the Federal Government …
Sheriff Joe Arpaio – because of this slime ball I have lived in terror for many years; for my “Dreamer” friends, who are in college and have been here since age of “2”; and their loved ones who are some of the best and hardest working people I know in Arizona...
The Republican gerrymanders - it's scary how the State voting districts of America have been mapped to favor Republican candidates - not right and very scary because it works for them!
Wall Street bankers and their dirty dealing and big money running the country by controlling most politicians in our Congress, our President, writing the laws that cater to them and literally buying our democracy ….
ECB and European austerity - I feel so bad for the people of Greece. They got conned by loan shark bankers of the Eurozone system just like home buyers did in the U.S. during our mid 2000’s housing bubble; and now they are at risk of going belly up and being kicked out of the ECB. The people can’t get their money out of their banks – talk about terrorism – how terrifying is that? I believe this is the worst kind! The Greek people have already suffered so much and now they had to vote on something they don’t understand and feel threatened. But it is really a big set-up to make them look like they want to be “kicked out” but rather the entire thing has been a dirty jack-around deal brought on by bankers and politicians ….
It’s a very scary thought what our country is going to look like when our Democracy finally breathes its last breath and an oligarchic government takes over (if that has not happened already), just sayin ….
However after saying all that regarding my metaphor of “terrorists”; I must mention something else that scares the living daylights out of me and it is this: What scares me most of all are ordinary Americans; people who are my brothers and sisters living and walking around me. There are two kinds of these “scary” groups: (1) the uninformed middle class and the poor who don’t pay attention to their government and don’t vote. These non-voters add to the vast number of the next group: (2) the ones who vote against their own best interests – these folks are possibly the scariest of all because they don’t know what they are doing and there are so many of them. The “vote against their own best interest” group watch Fox, O’Reilly and listen to Rush Limbaugh; think they are doing the right thing and then blindly go vote against themselves. And there is no way you can change their mind because they have a daily dose of propaganda to support their misguided convictions – this whole scene terrifies me ...
I would be interested in hearing if anything scares you in the comments, if you like.
Okay so not to end on such a negative just want to say I also believe we have a voice raising up and a last ray of hope ….. God bless Bernie Sanders! Even if he does not win it is such a breath of fresh air to hear him speak. Go Bernie!
Respectfully,
AugustFireDog