Better Than a New Idea
What could be?
An irregular heartbeat from d.o. to you. Not like a daily kos, more like a sometime sloth. Fast relief from the symptoms of blogarrhea and predicated on the understanding that the world is not a stage for our actions, rather it is a living organism upon which we depend for our existence.
It's called a family tree but it's hard to see
much similarity though we all are here
on and in this land in need of air and
of course water and beings we do not
see moving about us and on us here
seemingly forever and ever even as we
humans cut away at them for warmth or
utility without much thought or empathy
trace your relations truthfully across
the land and sea into the soil and depths
all our relations together.
2024 will make it near impossible to believe the USA is the same nation it was when I was born. I'm a War Baby, born just after the Nazis surrendered and before the Japanese did. I grew up in a post-war era where real patriotism was pervasive and those who had held fascist beliefs retreated into the shadows. Fascists were the enemy, our fathers, mothers and grandparents defeated them soundly.
If you haven't heard Rachel Maddow's podcast Ultra or read her subsequent book Prequel I highly recommend you do. Both are an eye-opening study in just how far fascism grew here in the States prior to World War II and a.....well, prequel to what is happening as we speak. Once again, fascism is on the rise. It is rampant in the Republican Party. It is spearheaded by a former President (a highly damaged man), something unheard of in all of American history. It is literally a plague upon our nation, one that could put an end to the democratic republic we've nurtured since the nation's founding. Let's be perfectly clear, fascism means to destroy this nation and those who are promoting it presently control one of the main political parties, the so-called Republicans. This is, to me, unbelievable. Even though I witnessed it taking place over the past years, I never thought it would become what it has, a political sickness worse than the Black Death of medieval times.
It falls upon us rational, reality-based citizens to do everything we can to make sure the fascists do not capture the White House this coming November. They absolutely must be defeated and sent back into the shadows from where they came. Let's turn disbelief into belief and bury this plague once again.
"Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” - Bob Dylan
from "the patriot wing" they sing a thing
we thought was patriotic but turns out
it's not but rot and a blot on our land
do you understand look it up it's not
read all the verses and notice the curses
the "white power" coerces the rascist
obverses sung behind bars drive-bys
from cars or trucks flying false flags as
they snarl and scream the constant stream
of hate bound to negate their hope and fate
it's too late the gate is locked it's blocked
supporters are leaving few are believing
the cause is deceiving itself stop
fooling yourself.
Select the very best and kill the rest seems
at best a fascist test for those who attest
to love the woodlands but should most likely
give it a rest, take some time to quiet the mind
sit with the trees and wait in time not fall back
to some kind of rewind and status quo bind
sit with the wood until understood future is
not the past but the last chance to get passed
old notions and assembled motions leading
forward to flooding oceans and tortured
skies brought on by business-as-usual and
far too many lies
- d. o.