I'm so miscellaneously angry right now. I'm mad at my fellow citizens for being idiots- this is a complex anger, because they are simple in so many varied ways, from sea to shining sea. I don't expect people to agree with me all the time, or even most of the time. But why is intelligence and education vilified, while blind adherence to ignorance and venality is cheered? Gross. Racism and idiocy- alive and well in the Land of the Buy 1 Get 1 Free!
I'm angry at the media for being an echo-chamber for the stupidity. NPR- that supposed bastion of the left- is so center-right it makes me feel like I'm standing in the middle of the Dust Bowl in 1935: howling wind, dirt clouding the sky and coating everything, no one around. The other day the House voted in favor of extending the Bush era tax cuts for all but the wealthiest, which is a useless vote because it wont get to the Senate. NPR essentially snickered at this whole thing and then aired some asshole Gopper saying that it is just more Democratic class warfare. Well, DUH. Of course it's class warfare- it's the GOP's war against the working and middle classes, and the Dems response to it. What really ticked me off, however, was simply that the Dems were responding to what we- their constituency- wants. That's important, even if the vote can't go anywhere. Cynicism aside, this is the vote that should be on the record, and I'm happy they didn't just roll over and present their parts to be sniffed. Maybe being on the defensive will actually make them represent us, the progressive majority who is too lazy/disillusioned/fucking LAZY to vote.
I'm familiar with this feeling of anger, and I don't like it. The whole Bush II regime was like one long "Hunh? WTF?" for me. Actually, I first felt it when I was 10 and Reagan was slimily bringing social justice and progress to a MIC-assisted halt in the 1980s. God knows the Democrats are no one's heroes in a general sense- they just can't get together and fight the way the GOP does- they're too even-handed, informed, wanting to pat everyone on the back and discuss all sides and compromise until they've given it all away.
But the question I ask myself is this: do we WANT to be the Borg? I have developed a visceral hate for the Republican M.O.- it's anti-human, dirty, and selfish. It's like Ayn Rand combined with a redneck to give us this hideous travesty of political culture. We have so many lies that undergird the foundation of our truths- I don't want to get down into that slime and further debase our society or myself.
