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I am not sure which hurts the most. 

What we are, or what we have become. 

We have always been a nation led by deceitful politicians justifying criminal intention by appealing to a fearful, ignorant, racist and angry population. We cut our teeth on genocide and aggression. We stack the deck for corporations, up to and including calling them ‘people’ to further wedge their advantage. We discriminate, bully, target, profile and hate. Anyone with the slightest difference is not to be trusted with the guaranteed rights of life and liberty, and only athletes and entertainers are granted the pursuit of happiness, with certain exceptions and understandings, of course. In short, as I mentioned in conversation several times over the weekend, WE SUCK. 

We suck on the humanitarian level, the religious level, the democratic level, the judicial level, the constitutional level. The only thing level about us is our inability to level the playing field. Worse, those corporations hiding tax free profits in off-shore accounts are laughing hysterically at us as we fight amongst each other as they relentlessly chip away at everything from clean water to voting suppression. To think we are free shines a delusional light, cast from the gas-lamps of the radical right, on the paradox of freedom's fragile oxymoron.  To think we are just and fair is an Orwellian farce. To consider us moral and forthright is a sick joke not even Carlin would appreciate. Did I say it already? WE SUCK.

Every republican senator and every house red-tied congressman (with matching lapel pin) is complicit in the latest round of atrocious crimes against humanity. Guilt by muting the reality of their lack of fortitude like invertebrates swimming against the current of morality. Guilty as fuck for the crime of lining their slimy pockets with the silver of our trust. Why people buy this is a mystery to me. 

Sadly, the latest round of their joint collusion against the values that we call america (I can’t capitalize it anymore) is the inhumane and mean-spirited incarceration of the kids to the south. No law, no bible quote and no reason for this other than hate, greed and fear has promoted this felonious power-play.

In my heart I know there is no justification and in my soul I reel at the overt propaganda claiming that these kids are somehow the enemy. If you are still here, please allow me the redundancy of a WE SUCK opinion, with the addendum that the kids aren't the enemy, we are.

We suck because we have created this mess. Our fear and our anger and our hatred have all conspired to mash-up an evil concoction, hawked daily by an immensely talented snake oil salesman and a team of thoroughly corrupt bag men. 

One can turn to the propaganda network and hear the spin against the outrage, a profitable tactic, that further enables the fear and bigotry, around the clock, as the fascist machinery rumbles into soft minds and over weak souls. WE SUCK. 

Lastly today please allow me to sociologically suggest that the very same kids we are treating worse than animals today, have a very high probability of becoming the terrorists of tomorrow.

I know I would be a little angry at the people responsible. How else to hold them accountable?

VOTE.