We are so divided as a nation that true colors of so called "patriots" are beginning to show through their red-white-and-blue veneer revealing an ugly transparent skin. I haven't seen this much hate and intolerance since I was a kid in the late 50s and early 60s.
Of course, our mainstream media shine their lights and aim the camera and microphones at the crazies, teabaggers, and extremists of every kind to sell air time, ignoring the sane people who can see through the smoke and mirrors. Times like this are when I am grateful for 2 things; the Internet and not having TV service.
Today the networks were running the footage of the WTC collapse over and over again, I finally convinced the bartender to switch to the sports channels for the football games and tennis matches that the people really wanted to see. The 9/11 images are seared into our brains and we don't need to see them again. We have our own memories of that day and they are best kept to ourselves after almost a decade. I cringe to think of what is being planned for the public by the media in 2011. G*d help us all.
We decorated the restaurant in a bit of the colors today, but no one noticed and if they did, no mention was made of the effort.
We are at war, not only in the middle east, but right here at home. Not for "our freedoms" but our stupidity, and arrogance. And it isn't only with a crazy Koran-burning "man of G*d" but with new white supremacist groups and the old, reliable KKK, which is hosting a rally this evening in a nearby town that will not be named here.
Where am I going with this? Nowhere, really.
I just wanted to vent about the stoopid, the uninformed, and the race-baiters at Fox who spread their BS to those anxious to hear what they want to hear so as to justify their future behavior. Not that the other networks are any better; they all seem to follow the twisted logic of FOX.
This has been another episode of the "Dumbing of America" brought to you by me!
Stepping down from the soapbox...I can't fix or change any of it, but a rant can be good for the heart and soul. Besides, I smell olives.
And so it goes.
Your title asks the question "does anybody care?" Some of us do - but we care for the victims, the families, the survivors - not the politics and from the very beginning the observance of this day was driven by politics. So I try to observe in my own quiet way and to shut out the noise of politics and its generated hate and pseudo-issues and pray that someday I'll see the nation I loved once again.
ReplyDeleteSometimes a rant is good. Fox and all their followers, who claim to be the ONLY ONES who are patriotic are anything but. Their constant tearing down of this president puts our country at risk. They don't know what patriotism is. What is scary is who many otherwise good and decent Americans buy into the lies that Fox News spews out. They believe the lies! Sad, sad, sad. And scary. I fear for this country, not from the terrorists but from the stoopids within.
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