Read a tweet this morning. About how the Democrats in congress/senate are dragging their feet, gumming up the process, so that legislation gets stalled. Another about how the intelligence community is stringing out the revelations, possibly to snare more corrupt politicians. A known police technique.
And thought about how Obama was strangely silent at the questionable election results, encouraging HRC to concede, not contest the results. Her win would have been great, but would also have pushed the horrors underground another four years. Perhaps understood that his own moderation, necessary and welcome, was also a fertile ground for the nutjobs on the right, and greedy, corrupted Republicans.
Wondering if this isn't a desperate throw of the dice. Lure all the monsters out from under the bed, so we know who they are and destroy them. Risky, but against what may be inevitable horrors and public apathy, perhaps the only chance - long term - to save our freedom. Maybe more accurately,instead of dice, a high stakes chess game.
Let the horrors step into the limelight, feeling safe, so that the vast majority of decent people understand what is in peril, and fight them from the bottom up. In a way that having competent people on top precludes. We shouldn't feel safe, but we can win if we fight.
Because having another moderate in the presidency, although ideal, may have let the evil continue underground, nipping at the heels of progress.
And I see Obama as a chess player. Even knowing innocent lives will be lost, eventually justice will prevail. If we win through. And the stakes only get higher if the battle is delayed too long. He certainly understood the rise of White Supremacy across the globe, as well as here. He was in a unique position to know which way the wind was blowing. Better, perhaps, to take the chance while we were prospering, and people really felt how much they were going to be giving up. Retreat to gather our forces, and wage a guerrilla war. Strengthen our free press. Remind us of our duty as citizens. Such was our original revolution based upon.
We unite and harass and harry, make them the enemy. Those who would enrich themselves out of our pockets, who would divide and destroy us, the inflexible and proudly ignorant. We will science the hell out of them. We will never let up.
Hail Mary passes all around.
8 comments:
from your mouth to god's ears, as they say. i keep thinking this is so insane (with a heartfelt apology to the actually medically insane, but words fail me) that there must be something to it. surely this can't be the next step. if it is, all i can say, i'm glad i have no children.
He's like an untrained puppy or a toddler , really . I don't quite understand why he's addressing a rally tonight instead of sorting out some of the chaos he's caused ... but perhaps he'll tire himself out and we'll all get some peace for a few days .
You've got a point there. It feels more and more like a giant game of distraction.
Distracting the fools and the watchful while something else is being cooked up.
Prost, dear Z!
Thank you all for still stopping by. I know it's distressing, and tedious. Really helps not to feel like a voice crying out in the wilderness.
As much as we can mobilize against this 'force of evil', we ought to.
Phil,
They've stirred up a nest of hornets. We're just getting starting.
love that penultimate sentence ... "we will science the hell out of them."
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