Many of you will recall that I aspire to knowing nothing at all, and you may call me out for what I am about to write, but frankly, I don’t give even a little shit! That being said, here I go!
Business, especially big business, never looks beyond its own bottom line. Business, especially big business, pays off politicians to achieve one solitary goal…to increase their profits. Yet we continue to believe that the government, our elected politicians, are acting to make our country better for everyone. I mean the sheer size of the bankrolls controlled by corporate PACs should indicate to everyone that the very rich are way richer than they admit
The essential truth about our own democracy is that its inherent foresight is equal to that of a slug, and that may be unfair to slugs. Our government does not know how to look forward because it is supported wholeheartedly by corporate entities trying to keep things the way that they have always been. Even the progressives are shortsighted. They strive to remedy the problems of the past, instead of seeking solutions for the future.
The United States has done many great things, but the great things are far outnumbered by the grievous acts our country has committed. For instance, they broken nearly every treaty written with those peoples who lived here long before the white man. We have betrayed nearly every population that has helped us in our numerous wars for profit. They abandoned the Hmong people of Cambodia, the Arabic people who served as translators in the most recent wars who were promised protection and emigration to the great ol’ USA. We have stolen the land and farms given to the freed slaves after the Civil War, despite their service to this country. And most grievous of all, we have failed to educate our children with an accurate historic portrayal of our nation. I never should have hit my sixth decade without knowledge of the Tulsa massacre, or the massacres that occurred in the North in cities like Chicago.
So, let me stop here by stating a few indisputable facts. Corporations are not people. They are economic entities, rife with legal loopholes designed to maintain profit and wealth, not mine or yours, but theirs.
The term ‘public service’ should be banned from the American lexicon. With due deference to lifelong, underfunded diplomats, and to dedicated government employees, there no longer exists anything resembling public service, nor anything akin to government ‘for the people’. We have become a country where political parties serve no other purpose than to obstruct each others’ agendas.
And while we are at it, we may as well stop considering ourselves civilized. Civilized people listen to each other, and hold space for reasonable discourse.
There is only one path forward in my opinion. Our government needs to change course, and strive to make things more equitable for the next generation. And we should start by creating policy designed to improve the lives of those peoples we have fucked the hardest. So invest in Native American education, in education in general, to ensure that the next generation of black and native peoples have the same possibilities as white people. Fuck reparations! Just put their schools on the same playing field as white suburbia.
And while we’re at it, let’s tear down the projects, and replace them with homes not designed to keep people impoverished and clustered in shitholes.
Well, that’s enough about government and history. Let’s move on to the other things I know.
Women like sex just as much as men, providing its good sex. As an aside, they also suck just as much as men. While men do suck, most men are not inherently evil. They do not deserve to be treated with public disdain, should not be denied due process, should not be treated en masse as serial rapists. Those that are abusers, and rapists should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But if a woman hurts her hand swinging a baseball bat at a man’s head, it is currently the man who gets hauled away to jail…gets issued a restraining order…which all leads to a ruined life. People argue, couples argue, always have. Loud is not synonymous with assault or abuse. Women are not always victims, although they are far too often. But even so, women can’t always have it both ways. They can’t want the same power as men, and play the weak sister on the other hand. Equality does not allow for imbalance.
The religious right, those self professed people of faith, are a pack of liars, who will all tell you that Jesus was a white man. Pretending that Jesus is white is the foundation of almost all racism. If God was gonna have a son, I’m thinking he would have considered rainbow colors. Jesus may have suffered for your sins, but I am suffering for your sins, the sins of hatred, the sin of not following the tenets of your purported faith. I’ve known more people of color who possess real faith, replete with love and kindness, than white people.
There may be other things I now, but they’re not on the tip of my tongue, so I’m gonna wind it down. So, I’m gonna leave you with a few adages.
There are only two kinds of people…the ones that like you, and the ones that don’t. Who gives a fuck about the ones that don’t?
I may be bitchy, but that doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole!
It’s high time we all found a lot more respect for each other. I promise, I will always listen, and consider your viewpoint.
