Fed up and disgusted with our own 2 party system since 1982 as a registered Independent voter, recent comments on an article by a blogger at Floridatoday.com left me feeling even more bleak about the dark ugliness emerging from all corners in American life, looking for a scapegoat - be it religious, political, moral, financial, or personal. We are still left with an eternal pendulum swinging between 2 parties who value gridlock & payback more than real solutions. It’s still about power and who wields it.
Then I came across this quote:
“They see the future as bleak,” Sadek says. “They don’t know about the job, marriage, housing — they see torture. They see corruption. They see rigged elections. What can they do? Of course: The only tool in their hands is their fingertips. And the keyboard.” sociologist Said Sadek
from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129425721
This came from an Egyptian sociologist observing & commenting on a recent Egyptian trial of several young bloggers protesting everything from police corruption to the Egyptian Religious Police. The youth in Egypt strike an uncomfortable chord in myself.
As phildickian as this moment was when I read this, my heart sank as I realized no one in America is talking about the torture that was perpetrated in the name of American Security anymore or the emerging religious reich that lusts for power as a deputized Religious Police in the name of ‘Taking Our Country Back’.
Our country was never anywhere near where the reactionaries want to take us ‘back’ to. Our country was never a fundamentalist theocracy the last time I checked. Every theocracy implemented in history on our planet has been ruled by *men* acting as stand-ins for God. Don’t ever expect me to trust an approaching goat wanting to make me implicit in scapegoating anyone. Our own, self-appointed, ugly, emerging Religious and Political Police believe only in the absolute of the absolute power they lust for. Absolute Power Still Corrupts Absolutely.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Q: Who goes 1st? A: The one who cares
Those who consistently *never* offer to apologize, & pride themselves on it are very lonely wrapped in self-righteous delusions of martyrdom
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