They Are Not *AFRAID* Of Us. [View All]

The leadership in our country has no worries about "the people." We have been effectively neutered.

Our votes can be counted via machines that will report whatever they are programmed to report. Th paychecks of those in power will be supplemented by the courtiers called lobbyists who will provide them a luxurious lifestyle far removed from that of "the common folk." Their misdeeds and crimes in support of the hands that feed them can be covered up with a spider like spinning that numbs the brain while those who watch it slowly die.

What do they have to fear? For them, there is no God but money.

In a country with guns everywhere, the highest among them walk surrounded by those who would sacrifice their lives in their defense, while the rest walk with the arrogant pride of those who will not be called to account for their actions.

Did you vote to cut funding for cancer research? That was twenty years ago, and the families of those who mourn chalk up their losses to the cruelty of the Almighty, instead of the greed of Republicans, so have no fear!

Did you ignore HIV and AIDS because you thought it was God taking care of the "gay people"? That was twenty years ago, and those who suffer from it probably brought it on themselves because they didn't engage in 'safe' behavior.

Did you ignore warnings about terrorist attacks using planes because you were on vacation? That was five years ago, and we're 'safe' now because we take off our shoes in airports. The families of the dead don't mind -- again, there is no reason to think you will be held accountable.

Did you let a great American city drown, and its people die from neglect? The dead will be forever uncounted as their bodies washed out to sea, and yet, there is no reason to fear for the Great and Powerful -- it was a long time ago -- A YEAR! People need to move on from such things; Republicans don't make hurricanes, after all, and the fact they were in charge of the human response to it isn't something 'nice' people talk about.

In another time, and another place, there would have been a lynching, complete with tar and feathers. But that doesn't happen nowadays. We are a civilized people, and we do not do "frontier justice" anymore.

Instead, we walk around in circles, holding up signs expressing our displeasure, and we comfort ourselves with the fact that we can "vote" and throw the bums out in a Nice and Polite Manner.

And the machines count our votes ....