Let the Record Show

_{Originally posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150190087826636}

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24

So if you’ve read through all that, read on, because here’s what I have to say on that particular matter:

It’s quite interesting to notice that nearly every single instance mentioned in this article berating people for believing in the current president’s intentions to be a leader towards peaceful negotiation can be directly traced back to the 8 Cheney, I mean Bush (that’s the second one, the one that couldn’t even bother to show up for national guard duty, not the ex CIA one that came before him, of course,) years of administration bent on deregulation of all those corporations to whom, without such oversight, went most of this country’s tax dollars. This is to say nothing of those same victims of executive manipulation having to recognise their hard-earned take home income was to grow exponentially worthless in the marketplace.

Protests of the war mentioned, specifically the one in Iraq,were to collectively stand and yet remain as one of the largest world-gatherings in the history of protests against the actions of a single government in the history of the free world. People were left with little more after the insistent rampaging of their lives for the benefit of the elitists and 1% ers with nothing BUT hope, if they were even allowed to yet hold onto such a thing… all the the name of faith and freedom.

We were then expected, while taking short, shallow breaths, to both not drown in the sea of debt and despair left in the wake of the Bush years, to believe there’s something wrong with having hope. Hope is different from faith in that faith depends upon a belief that he who leads is worth following without question or reserve. Hope only insists that we remain vigilant in our plan for a future of goodness.

After reading this article, one would assume we are to consider hope to be a bad thing. Therefore, it would seem we should be pure cynics, if we can’t be pure tyrants. Of course, even pure hope DOES have its limits. For instance, try as we might wish it to be so, we can’t all be BFFs with the bin ladens and have oil baron daddies who well-know the meaning of “the ends justifies the means.” But then can we, any of us, at this late hour afford to be so Machiavellian? Can we, as a nation, afford to continue to push truth to the side, to make wider the chasm for criticism of those that are not likely to come at us with that “faith” sort of rhetoric?

I guess I’m just saying… I wish people could pick their fights with the right people who need their collective arses kicked, instead of being such bigots and backbiters, spending their every last effort to seek out even the slightest shred of hope that what they don’t understand and haven’t ever evolved an ability to do so, can yet be squashed like the ugly bug with too many legs that happened across their picnic sandwich?

I’m just saying…

…and thanks for reading.