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Quick vent... In hours after Paris, every Facebook profile picture had French colors. blue, blanc, et rouge. It was almost the same with Belgium, red, yellow and black. Every 9/11, banners appear on social media and last for weeks. "Never Forget".
But for Heather H.... nothing. Silence. Not even acknowledgement from the other side, except for the old Russian trolls now back in circulation on all the old circuits.
America has a disease and it is cowardice. I know none of my friends support the alt-right. I recognize some probably are behind Trump, but even there I could be wrong for that is based on probability; they remain silent about it around me, so I simply can't say for sure... But
I sense they are very uncomfortable with what just happened. It ranks up there like they should feel if a highly seated pedophile was outed in their church; like if their favorite family member got arrested for running an lab which would make Walter White jealous; like their political hero turned out to be a cardboard cutout of paper and print...who fooled them past the point of no return and was absolutely incapable of accomplishing anything at all.
I'm not sure why they choose silence. I speculate. I know I'm angry and feel I must lash out... So are those others around me who are politically active. But most of our general population seems to be happy to withdraw behind posting kittens (I've seen more than usual the last two days/ a symptom in itself) and remain completely silent on the murder of a girl whose picture probably reminds us all of someone we once loved working with. Sadly tonight they are now tsk-tsking among themselves because we, the liberal thugs, don't have any knowledge of history, and are tearing down statues of those historical heroes/ mass murderers...... and will soon dig up Arlington cemetery and only hillbillies behind the 2nd Amendment will stop us. (??? - true post)
Lost on them is that they seriously mourn the head of the founder of the KKK whose body lies venerated in their city park???
I've learned to understand that part of me is a child. Even today in the luxury of living in some childish moments, I think of the glee i would feel if someone would just kill these Nazi's off, a task much simpler than reassimulation. Stage a secret meeting and set of a huge MOAB underneath bringing down the stadium on top of them...burying all of them in one hole for good. This would solve everything I exhube.... But these are childish thoughts; they have no bearing in the real world. I guess if we weren't suppose to have them in our play time, we wouldn't be allowing Game of Thrones or spinoffs like The Vikings to appear on our TVs.
Childish thoughts.. Which is why it was a boy, of 20. Twenty years old. at most three years out of high school, who fanatically thought if he could just run his car into those horrible sub humans who had the nerve to protest against the future of America, it would save the world from the horrors of Liberalism.. Forever intimidated, they would give up, and fade away in fear.
It took a brainwashed 20 year old. A 21 year old would probably know better. I know when you're 20 you don't think you're a kid... But you are... You really know nothing outside yourself. You are easily tricked into doing things under the guise of trying to act adult. As emotions flair, I know the child in me could have easily have been convinced doing something similar for my cause, and it would have lead to devastating blowback to liberalism in general.
The wide outrage behind Heather's death among hundreds of millions of Americans, is a solid cold reminder that violence back-at-em, is not the answer... Even though it makes you feel good to give into your hate and inflict pain on someone else, when you finally actually use violence, all you accomplish is to make a lot more new enemies each time you kill one old one off, those friends and family of those you kill are given renewed will to come after you. A truce becomes harder to achieve and cannot occur, until after you are charged and punished for your malicious crimes.
Entertaining violence is childish. Being non violent is extremely mature.
In looking at how I feel with her now gone, I see that over half of America has revolted in anger, disgust, and horror at these Nazi's who've secretly lived among us, supported financially and politically by one of our two major political parties. I see the personal justice emerging against those Nazi's outed by their photos, from family, friends, and employers and I think... If we had instead attempted to wipe them out with violence in order to excise this cancer, all this horror and resentment would have turned inward on us instead and we would be the ones defending the indefensible: forced like them now, to say they had to die because...... Right now they are so isolated, not even Rush Limbaugh can stand in their corner. Donald Trump is their only protection between them and being lynched by all the rest of the world
It is imperative that we remove that last sense of protection in order to maintain American moral truth as a standard, to say we solidly as a nation repudiate what this president stands for. We must accept that Pence will have to be President for this to happen, we are not children, and that having him now is the better of the two choices we have. At least with Pence in charge there is hope. Without him, a better future is gone.
Furthermore agreeing to settle on Pence now, makes it much easier for the other side to vote impeachment.
Remember how Kos united behind calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. Remember? Compared to today, that was laughable, what were we doing? And… to not do it today?
Today we have reached the critical moment; waiting any longer to impeach the President of the United States of America for High Crimes and misdemeanors, is like hanging on to an investment in Trump Tower as it collapses into its basement. The longer we wait, the more financial damage we will personally incur. Counter-argument is done. Like Peter on the arrest of Jesus, he was given three chances to stand up for what Americans believe is right, he failed three times. He is now unequivocally a racist. One can no longer look away and pretend otherwise. There is no gray. He is a white supremacist now even in his public admissions and demeanor. He would love to be the next Hitler; fortunately for us, he lacks Hitler’s acumen and his leadership skills are too incompetent to pull it off. America luckily dodged a bullet.
it's time to change direction and the faster we move, the better. We tred a slippery slope. Any false step can loosen the rocks beneath and start the unstoppable avalanche downhill dragging us all to doom ... Once it starts, all the good, is gone.
A less clumsey leader on point, would be a great start.