While my outrage meter has been pegged at maximum since Inauguration Day, I’m fearful that others have worn theirs out. Many now accept the behavior of the Current Occupant of the Oval Office as normal, even expected. That might be our eventual downfall.
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I’ve been feeling like I'm having a stroke since three likely man-made, climate change-induced hurricanes invaded our country, but while Texas and Florida got help, those in Puerto Rico have suffered over a week with little other than a shrug and a bevy of self-back-patting from our Golfer in Chief. While people are dying and in desperate situations, he kvetches about the islands’ debt and cost of rebuilding. Whether sheer incompetence, ignorance, or just plain racism, it’s deplorable and reminds me of another location literally ignored to death — New Orleans after Katrina.
I hate turning on the news, news shows, networks or checking out the news on the net. Every day — even multiple times per day — I’m outraged by the behavior, action, inaction, arrogance, willful ignorance, deaf ear, pettiness, hypocrisy, greed, laziness, and extensive lying by our Tweeter in Chief. And if I’m getting sick and tired of it, I know that John Q. Public with his 2-3 jobs, underwater mortgage, low pay with no benefits who is living 1 paycheck away from complete ruin, has tuned out long ago.
This is likely what Pr*sident tRump and his allies have had in mind all along.
Do and say the outrageous over and over again and the unwashed masses will ultimately give up in despair. He’s seen it work before in regimes in other countries and dictatorships. It’s simply an extension of what Republicans learned to do long, long ago — tell the Big Lie, repeat it over and over again, and soon, the public will believe it to be the truth. It’s not only outrageous lying, but outrageous behavior this time.
Democrats, on the other hand, simply believe that the truth will prevail and do nothing to counter it. Add that to my other outrage since I haven’t seen the truth prevail in decades and then, it's always too late (see: War, VietNam). In my experience, a lie makes it around the world while the truth is leisurely putting on its shoes.
Maybe people are waking up now that the outrage is costing lives in Puerto Rico while tRump plays his fiddle golfs, but how long will it be before they’re once again overwhelmed by another outrage coma? How long before people put their hands up and foolishly state how much they hate politics and politicians despite how crucial it is to their very lives? How long before they tune out the news and return to feverously watching “reality” TV for their Bread and Circuses entertainment? How long before the daily Kardashian news fix triumphs over present and future lives being lost and our future diminishes into a cess pool of mindless citizens who don’t give a shit?
We need to continue our outrage, express it, and remind others that this is NOT “normal”. That this reality should never be “normal”. If it does, we’re doomed.
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