Mad as Hell

Players in peaceful protest of blatant lethal police brutality ‘don’t belong in this country’? Maybe the racist blowhard saying this doesn’t belong in the office ensuring those very constitutional rights. Matter of fact, there is no maybe about it. 

Don Lemon is now correctly calling this a crisis. Mueller has documented proof that not only was there collusion, there was criminal intent. Trump’s lawyer/fixer is about to be indicted and his business partner is about to sing like a canary to keep his slime ball ass out of the big house, Congressional Republicans are blatantly breaking the law with their insistence that documents be turned over to them during an on-going criminal investigation. Our schools are under siege, our resources being prepped for sales to highest bidders (oil companies) while the environment continues its downward slide into toxic waste. Anyone other than rich, white, old conservative males are wading in deep kimchee. 

The only demographic characteristic where I fail in that litmus test is the rich. Therefore it is perhaps understandable that I feel like I do. I don’t have the credentials to play, I didn’t get an invite nor do I hang in the circles dictating such authoritarian, fascist, regimes. 

I believe that we are headed for a showdown. SOMEBODY has to step up and defend everything that we hold to be true, wholesome, right, just and fair. These things are supposed to be self evident guaranteed to us as rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

None of this makes me very happy. Matter of fact, I am MAD AS HELL. 

Really all I/we are asking for is equal rights for all with special benefits for none. But of course that will never happen. Too much money at stake. Like the 21 trillion dollars in off-shore tax-free accounts kept off the books by the companies already robbing you blind with gas, food, medical, insurance, educational and housing costs. Then they raise OUR taxes. What a fucking racket! 

Lemon is right. So is Clapper. So is Maddow. So is every free thinking American citizen looking to take sincere pride in the activities of their country. Where people having the courage to speak for those who can’t. Where atrocities are indemnified and then rectified. Where democratic protocols are followed as guided by our constitution. 

Where no one is above the law. Where truth and justice are the American Way. 

I am not a fan of the NFL. And please don’t misunderstand, I love football. I am a fan of peace and fair play. The rules of the game, especially in this metaphorical sense, are crucial if we intend to continue as a functioning democracy. 

The players need to strike and shut down the revenue sources of the plantation owners. This is no different than 155 years ago, a game replacing a crop as commodity. Our voices need to be heard in their support. 

I would like to hear the roar of the crowd in support. Not republican crickets.