Fantastic job! Truly terrible consequences to come, but great job!
January 18, 2021
It seems that we aren’t going to stop until we are beating each other with clubs in the streets in the name of equality and unity. “Because I am SO RIGHT, I must hurt people who don’t think as I do.”
Fear and insecurity drive/will drive most of the actions. I don’t think for a minute that there isn’t a puppet master (probably not one person) out there just tugging away at the strings. They are comfortably away from consequences and have long since abandoned a conscious.
I don’t like it, but I have to admire the rollout. Heck, in just a few years, concentrated venom, lies, deceit, hatred, and an orchestra of media wonderment have put us in a position to kill each other. We will too. People who are misguided and undereducated in critical thinking will be the first to go to blows. Passionate people will be next. Then, with the advent of the first rounds of violence, there will be trauma and vengeance violence. It will get very bad. We don’t have to go there. I don’t want us to go there, but that is where we are going.
I gave up on listening to political leaders in our country a long time ago. Say one thing and do another. Promise and not deliver. Over and over and over again. I couldn’t give an actual number of federally elected officials that are still good folks, fighting and working for the benefit of us all. I am guessing that number is in the very low double digits.
The law? Maybe the Supreme Court will save us? No. That has long since been a corrupted body through a terrible practice or political theater appointing and allowing activism from the bench. Neither “side” cared when it was in their favor and only cared when it was being done to them.
The military will save us? Man, if there is a group of people I love and respect it is our military. Are they going to start policing the citizens? If there is a huge red flag, that day would be it for me. Grab the go bag and quietly, but rapidly exit stage left.
Police? Similar to our military, I have much love, but same as the military, are they going to round up their neighbors for “crimes” when they are fully aware that the “law” is no longer, of by or for the People?
Who is left? Anyone got any evidence that I am wrong? Don’t waste my time with trolling or rabbit trail conspiracy stuff. Trump isn’t Jesus and Joe has been there promising solutions for 50 years. Congress is a bought-and-paid-for joke. The Court is… is, well something. I don’t know. Besides we have made the “laws” a joke of a system for many generations. We have rewritten the Constitution and besides besides (he he) only five people know that it existed in the first place.
I am done with putting expectations of “help” on the Federal Government. It is no longer designed for that purpose. We have torn down churches. We have changed schools to be indoctrinating machines that pump out social warriors, but no critical thinkers.
I won’t crawfish and start supporting the woefully small number of people doing the right things for the rights reasons. I know they are out there, but the TREND is TRENDING in a VERY BAD DIRECTION. And, it has been for a long time.
I have been accused of being Chicken Little saying the “sky is falling.” Say what you will, but I am not going to tell you constantly, that there is a bear and keep on trying to convince people as it walks toward us. Nope, at some point, you and the bear will get to know each other and I will be somewhere else.
Anyone reading this and calling me stupid is CLOSE to being right. The definition of stupid is not the thinking error I am suffering from. My thinking error is that I am ignorant. I have no clue how to to fix it. I don’t know how to stop it. Some days I feel like the lone guy on the side of the road holding up a sign that says, “Jesus Saves”. He does, but the name “America” isn’t in the Bible.
I don’t know how to use reason with people who aren’t equipped to think that way. No, let me correct that. I DO KNOW HOW, but dang that is a full time job for 100,000 people. I am one. There is much opportunity to help people learn when they are too busy screaming or accusing someone they have never spoken a word to of being the greatest threat to mankind since Satan. Heard that for both Trump and Obama.
I am not aiming this at politics either. Our bad choices and bad behavior is local and personal. If everyone was reasoned and had critical thinking skills and LOVED each other, then we would not have this issue. I have a running “experiment” where I wave at people. All types of folks. Pretty much everyone I see while driving. I track the number of acknowledgments and return gestures. Now, I know not everyone is paying attention. I know not everyone waves. But I also know there has been a change. Fewer waves overall and increased number of acknowledgements with no gesture. There is no way of knowing the “why” for the data, but I can infer and hypothesize. Anyone bothering the read this can too.
So, I am ignorant. OR is it that I feel/am helpless? I know what needs to be done, but it isn’t happening and my years of efforts, haven’t yielded enough results. Again, back on the side of the road with a sign. Maybe I expect to be that Tiananmen Square guy. Man, that was something and inspiring.
Keep dividing and we will be divided. Keep hating and we will hate. Keep ignoring and we will all be ignorant. Keep on traveling down this path and we will kill each other in the name of something. If we do this LONG ENOUGH, it will be generational behavior, just like bigotry and racism.
I know I am getting tired. I am not a martyr and while I know there is discomfort that comes with a helping attitude, I am not a crash test dummy either. I have tried over the years to teach and model what it is to be a decent human being. I do believe that I always will, but my audience and efforts to grow the audience will reduce. I am not interested in some Pareto Principle waste of my resources.
A while back I wrote a piece about how we have screwed up a good thing. I think I lied to y’all and I want to retract/correct. In the end of the piece, I said we will Stand Up again for good and righteous reasons. I don’t have any evidence to support that is true.
— R. A. Grier