Almost right on the quote not attribution. Actually it was a smart and sassy, activist woman who would cheer every word written here about the sewer of politics.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal." Emma Goldman
(speech )What Is Patriotism? by Emma Goldman - 1908 San Francisco, California
What, then, is patriotism? "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. [Samuel] Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman...
Indeed, conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
I subscribed because I think the video on this page is fabulous. I found the video through an email from Margaret Anna Alice, whose writing blows me away. You have given me something new to ponder, which is good and bad, bad because I have too much to do as it is. Good because I think I will be better because of it. Thank you!
Substack has led me from one writer to another. Each with their own character and value. I am thrilled to find you all. I love ideas, and the writers I have found give me lots to think about. I have bought many books in the last few years, inspired by the essays?/articles? I have read and their comments. I need another bookshelf! You give me a way to understand my disappointment in the two political parties in America, that seem to be increasingly irrelevant. At the same time I am more sure that I want freedom and safety, are those compatible? I don't want to have to buy a gun to feel safe, and I am, or was, accomplished with pistols, rifles, and shotguns (in a different lifetime). That is not the kind of safety I think about these days. I want to be able to talk with friends about the things that matter to me, which the COVID story has tried to render irrelevant: real health, real freedom, real financial security (I'm retired from a well-paying career in software). I'd like to read "the classics". If I can find the time away from reading about medicine. Thank you for your writing.
Thank you for the kind words. For clarification, the words in the video belong to Russell Blake -- another author I found here on substack-- and I created a video to amplify them as they also resonates deeply with me.
That is an interesting inquiry: are freedom and safety compatible? I’ll need to sit with that question for a bit, although what comes up to me immediately is the notion that safety is illusory, that no one gets out of life alive and that safety sometimes co-opts living.
My bookshelf, too, is bursting at the seams. With a book cue long enough for a couple of lifetimes. I don’t know the answers to the questions you hold, but I think they’re the right questions. We’ve been living in a simulation of reality and beginning to see what is real is a priori to finding the answers. But so glad to have you hear pondering the real with me. 👊
Right there with you Tonika. Why feed the charade? Here’s the Russell Brand/Jeremy Paxman interview where he first launched into the voice he has become. Still gives me goosebumps! Keep on keepin on sister 🙏
Wow. I had never seen that and I’ve seen lots of Ol’ Rusty Rockets, thank you for sharing it. Very powerful. I wish people spoke this directly with this much authenticity in all the interviews. Even Paxman loosened up by the end. I love how Brand referenced his grandmother. Like, c’mon mate, you’re just like us, enough pretence. Love it. Promise to keep on keeping on if you do. 🤗
I love this article. I voted early and for the first time in my life didn't vote for a single democrat. I'm not sure what my voting will be like in the future, as it does feel pointless. I cried on the day I voted. I guess grief for my old beliefs that voting matters and that there are good people to vote for. Those beliefs are now dead.
On a side note, I'm also in Chicago, and used to live the gigging life, working as a pianist, mostly with opera and music theater singers. I dialed way back about 7 years ago when my son was born, and then couldn't even get a trickle of music work during covid. I'm on the lookout for more music opportunities these days, but not much is appearing for me yet. Wondering if some of my old colleagues have blacklisted me?
I feel your pain there. I lost gigs too. Even some that were reneged on due to my status. And I know some of the people that barred me from them. People I used to call friends.
Aw shucks n' thanks thar! So yup, read'em with the act-scent -- it's a fun exercise in bein' silly and that'z a good thing! An thanks too fer the imp-athy re my darlin' daughters (who kin be very impish indeed, just not on stage). Oh, we'ze leavin' NYC--and I DO hope we'll find some "thee-ate-her" elsewharz (or "found" it ourselfs) but I'm with ya, if Chic-ago thee-ate-her now is "mean girls," NYC thee-ate-her is a bunch'a rabid jackals--STILL actin't like the ain't even humans! Notta peep'o apology here... An' it's not jus' the unjabbered that wuz banned--crazy Met Opera fired poor Anna Netrebko just fer bein' Russian (Lincoln Center was all awarsh in yellow n' blue...). I too am dee-skusted an' all fer stayin' away "poimently" (unless big n' publick apologies happen but that ain't gonna be the case)...
I wrote a bit on this'un too, seems a tad timely with them current "am-nasty" mutterins' goin' round:
So we gotta forge sum' new paths here in AmeriKa... cuz in the "ahrts" they was "fahrts"--even whin they took the danged masks off the blinders wuz still on tight!
Laughin' good at this, nope this here's me in "carrot-ter" - from one "act-tryst" to another! I used'ta also make films and wear a few other hats as well, but they'z all in mothballs now thanks-not-at-all ta the Nu Whirled Odor hittin' the "ahrts" here like the speed'o'sound. (It's all in my postin's--all the first ones 'r me rantin' about bein' banned as'well as my daughterz--my younger'un was on some big NYC stages, sang at Carnegie Hall... now banned she's singin' in the shower and no more dance classes...) Anyway, I wuz hoppin' mad (still am...)
But anywhoo...
I just like ta' turn the "cultural appropriation" puck they like to sling at us like a dodgeball inta' so much corn (n' corny) bread n' butter, sort'a like "actin' on paper" if it makes sense. And'a course this per'aps non-peecee hillbilly character happens to be one very close'ta my own heart so it's sincere (an' fun). Yup, I'm a New Yawker (with a bit'o MidWest in me too), city gal thru n' thru, but I do have a deep fondness fer all things "Country," not to mention Daisy Moses, my fav'rit Clampett, so fer now this nice Stack'O'Corncakes iz my (grand ol') Opry!
We all gotta enjoy our "carrot-ters" so we're good at "seein' things!"
I’m definitely enjoying reading it. I have to read it in that southern voice too so it flows easier for me. Very fun. Reminds me of when I was reading “Confederacy of Dunces” - the dialect was so thick I had to act out the character in my head in order to understand it.
Sorry to hear about your daughters and your own plight. I imagine there will be an opportunity yet, the arts wanting us back, but would we want to return? I found out the theatre community in Chicago is a pack of high school mean girls. Don’t want anything to do with it.
I will vote against my local sheriff. He gets all good old boy and rounds up his possy to go git the cougar, thoroughly out of touch, doesn't think outside the box and disliked by a majority and our vote will count. beyond that? forget it, completely corrupt and no i refuse to put my energy there and i feel it is a shameful practice. people get aghast when you don't do "something" forgetting that when you do nothing something else presents itself. something else that may have much more of an effect than playing into the rotten system. What will change current day politics? Maybe that like cancer it eats itself and the host? My gut says 100% that voting wont be it. Now if you want to get together and form a couple million strong army where we refuse to pay taxes on grounds of immoral acts then yes. I'll join that.
Spot on. Excellent words, and great vid. Thank you.
A farce of lifetimes. Countless lives shaped by support and opposition to ideas and struggle which serves an invisible elite. It’s too frightening and appalling for many to bear. Like looking into the blinding light of the sun. Too pure, too true.
The truth will be a painful awakening for the sleepers, and it is coming.
Loved this new vide-yo an' agree with jus'bout all've it (enjoyed the narration too!), though the black'pillin' angle leaves little hope fer those cheerin' on "team humanity". YET an' BUT herez a thought (from a crackpot that ain't voted in 20-some years but is changin' my tune at least this oncet.....)--which is what the always cynical an' wry (but none-the-less cheerful) James Corbett suggests... git'em on ALL SIDES if ya can... Git'em!
So... it's not gonna be solved in any one way but the sum-total of the parts MAY buy us time and get us on a saner road--not gonna be a fix , but I'll take a band-aid 'stead of a cyanide pill fer now...
So Corbett 'splains that just in the judicial won't do it--but better rulin's are a piece of it. So... some've us 'r holdin' our cheerin' breaths fer Todd Callender, Katherine Watt, an' Tom Renz not to fergit the Brave'un here in New Yawk--Bobbie-Anne-Cox--who got'a judge to take down the quarantine camp "rulings" deemin' them unconstitutional . Woohoo! Let's hear it here, too, fer the judge in our Staten Island that sided against the mandates fer city workers and ordered they be re-hired and given lost back pay. So let's not dismiss this "angle" and how we vote matters in terms of all things judicial...
Next we have wildcards like protests--as Corbett sez, a few folks showin' up ain't gonna cut the mustard but gigunda crowds DO. So the Canadian Truckers showin' up was The Beans! Made Turd-o look like a fool sayin' those protestin' wuz all Nazis and Racists and Supremacists--why that was the nicest most peaceable crowd'ya'd ever seen gather 'round some nice Maple leaves! Lotsa folks woke up a little seein' the police brutality an' all... An today, in Brazil, folks callin' out the 'lection fraud--may they prevail!!! And yes, even Jan 6th (trap aside)--that wuz quite the turnout! There IS something to it when huge numbers show up... not on its own agin'...but as a factor...
Next, ya gotz laws an' bills -- legislative stuffin'--and blessin's to all who are workin' that angle too--fightin' fer the constitution tooth n' fingernail This is the slow boat (not to Chynna! tho)... but by all means let it in the harbor when it arrives!
There's the alt-news and folks like Tucker n' Rogan n' Iverson who have bigger foller'ins--but there ARE some of the awake voices (like Steve Kirsch) that have gazillions of subscribers--so that's another angle too!
AND THEN yup, we have the votes. Here in NY State we have a reasonable guy (R-Zeldin) who sez no mandatory jabs 'r lockdowns and no mandated sex id in the "skools" vs a Witch Lady that wants not only to mandate the jabs but to lock us all in quarantine camps, no way out! And she claims there ain't no rise in crime here (Blind-as-a-Bat Witch!) and that kids young as 12 should make all their own "medi-cull" decisions (like clot shots and gender switcheroos). Who seems better? Well, if'n nobody votes they ain't helpin'.
Yup, in some 'lections it's a "why bother" but not this one--this ain't the same b/c just as yer vide-yo sez, this once independent and self-sufficient brave nation is now poised just above the all-destroyin' acid drip! Dr Phibes an' his minions (and we know who THEY are, more 'r less) are gonna kill the kid (our relatively young nation....) unless we can act fast, find the key, push away the gurney a'fore the acid drops. No harm tryin' (I do think this...)
Votin' in this 'lection is just pushin' away the gurney but it may save the patient's life--so I say heck yeah y'all, let's push that sucker away a bit now iff'in we kin-- Give'us time to see what we might do (even if it's growin' some danged veggies that the D-Wave psycho guv'nerds would otherwise con-fist-skate).
Patient's still on the table, check--body split open (like the nation) and bleedin' but I say just givin' up on makin' an attempt at savin' a life--er a nation--ain't a "plan" --it's what it sounds like--givin' up.
So this ol' naysayer an' non-voter is suggestin' some've us "damned if ya doers damed if ya don'terz" make an exception this time 'round--outlier tho it may be.
I'm with Scarlett an' her carrot--I sez do what'cha kin even if all'in ya got is DIRT n' rainwater. Grow somethin' any which way! (--an' while yer at it.... don't eat the bugs!)
An if they trick out the mash-ines and stop the "red wave".... well, there might jus' be a stampede. My bootz is ready! Re that wave, I'm not even sure if they pull sumthin' funny that they can put all the (lost) blood back into the elevator at The Overlook Hotel Votin' Booth Center--'member what happened to Jack? Freeze'im blue... cuz we're sick'n tarred've feelin'... blue.
Well done to you and Mr. Blake. The thing is, work like this is waking people up. It may be a light shower in the ocean but a year ago it would have been only a few drops. I concur with every word you have written in this post. I am in the UK but I have followed US politics since the Kennedy era and I have had EXACTLY the same mind journey (no kidding) regarding Obama, Trump/Clinton as you are expressing here. Furthermore I have no intention of voting in the next UK national election for exactly the same reasons. I will not endorse corruption. More and more people I have contact with in this country share the same frame of mind. In a sense Covid and the jabs (and now Ukraine) - for all the tragedies some have had to endure - is the gift that keeps on giving because it is becoming increasingly obvious with every new, breaking story (not in the MSM) that those who govern us do not represent us (forget House of Representatives or House of Commons, meaning The People) and have just hijacked the system for their own benefit. It's becoming painfully transparent to all but the wilfully blind. We will win this.
I do think they’re counting on us not talking to one another. It’s worked for quite a long time, but now the reality of it all is here. The UK might be small but it’s mighty and what happens there is a good indication of what else might be coming to the rest of the world.
good idea.
"Wouldn't" is used here to express conditional mood, to describe the consequence of an imaginary situation or event.
The correct construction would be, "If voting mattered, we wouldn't be allowed to vote."
Almost right on the quote not attribution. Actually it was a smart and sassy, activist woman who would cheer every word written here about the sewer of politics.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal." Emma Goldman
(speech )What Is Patriotism? by Emma Goldman - 1908 San Francisco, California
What, then, is patriotism? "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. [Samuel] Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman...
Indeed, conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040226052740/http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/emma_goldman_patriotism.html
How has this flown under my radar for so long?!? Thanks, Pamela. You’re always solid with the great links.
What a great quote.
We've always thought that was Emma Goldman who said it.
Allegedly Samuel Clemens (Twain) but probably a misattribution
sums it all up if you think about it.
Suicidal Tendencies......haven't had them yet. But my shelf life has not yet expired. So...??
I subscribed because I think the video on this page is fabulous. I found the video through an email from Margaret Anna Alice, whose writing blows me away. You have given me something new to ponder, which is good and bad, bad because I have too much to do as it is. Good because I think I will be better because of it. Thank you!
What a great comment, thank you! I cherish Margaret. So thrilled to hear we have mutual connections here.
Substack has led me from one writer to another. Each with their own character and value. I am thrilled to find you all. I love ideas, and the writers I have found give me lots to think about. I have bought many books in the last few years, inspired by the essays?/articles? I have read and their comments. I need another bookshelf! You give me a way to understand my disappointment in the two political parties in America, that seem to be increasingly irrelevant. At the same time I am more sure that I want freedom and safety, are those compatible? I don't want to have to buy a gun to feel safe, and I am, or was, accomplished with pistols, rifles, and shotguns (in a different lifetime). That is not the kind of safety I think about these days. I want to be able to talk with friends about the things that matter to me, which the COVID story has tried to render irrelevant: real health, real freedom, real financial security (I'm retired from a well-paying career in software). I'd like to read "the classics". If I can find the time away from reading about medicine. Thank you for your writing.
Thank you for the kind words. For clarification, the words in the video belong to Russell Blake -- another author I found here on substack-- and I created a video to amplify them as they also resonates deeply with me.
That is an interesting inquiry: are freedom and safety compatible? I’ll need to sit with that question for a bit, although what comes up to me immediately is the notion that safety is illusory, that no one gets out of life alive and that safety sometimes co-opts living.
My bookshelf, too, is bursting at the seams. With a book cue long enough for a couple of lifetimes. I don’t know the answers to the questions you hold, but I think they’re the right questions. We’ve been living in a simulation of reality and beginning to see what is real is a priori to finding the answers. But so glad to have you hear pondering the real with me. 👊
Truly clarifying. Yes we’re oozing in “political sepsis”. Loved it! Thank you for sharing!
Right there with you Tonika. Why feed the charade? Here’s the Russell Brand/Jeremy Paxman interview where he first launched into the voice he has become. Still gives me goosebumps! Keep on keepin on sister 🙏
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=russell%20brand%20jeremy%20paxman&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D3YR4CseY9pk
Wow. I had never seen that and I’ve seen lots of Ol’ Rusty Rockets, thank you for sharing it. Very powerful. I wish people spoke this directly with this much authenticity in all the interviews. Even Paxman loosened up by the end. I love how Brand referenced his grandmother. Like, c’mon mate, you’re just like us, enough pretence. Love it. Promise to keep on keeping on if you do. 🤗
I love this article. I voted early and for the first time in my life didn't vote for a single democrat. I'm not sure what my voting will be like in the future, as it does feel pointless. I cried on the day I voted. I guess grief for my old beliefs that voting matters and that there are good people to vote for. Those beliefs are now dead.
On a side note, I'm also in Chicago, and used to live the gigging life, working as a pianist, mostly with opera and music theater singers. I dialed way back about 7 years ago when my son was born, and then couldn't even get a trickle of music work during covid. I'm on the lookout for more music opportunities these days, but not much is appearing for me yet. Wondering if some of my old colleagues have blacklisted me?
Blacklisted for what?
Not being vaccinated. I know for sure I lost several jobs this way.
I feel your pain there. I lost gigs too. Even some that were reneged on due to my status. And I know some of the people that barred me from them. People I used to call friends.
Aw shucks n' thanks thar! So yup, read'em with the act-scent -- it's a fun exercise in bein' silly and that'z a good thing! An thanks too fer the imp-athy re my darlin' daughters (who kin be very impish indeed, just not on stage). Oh, we'ze leavin' NYC--and I DO hope we'll find some "thee-ate-her" elsewharz (or "found" it ourselfs) but I'm with ya, if Chic-ago thee-ate-her now is "mean girls," NYC thee-ate-her is a bunch'a rabid jackals--STILL actin't like the ain't even humans! Notta peep'o apology here... An' it's not jus' the unjabbered that wuz banned--crazy Met Opera fired poor Anna Netrebko just fer bein' Russian (Lincoln Center was all awarsh in yellow n' blue...). I too am dee-skusted an' all fer stayin' away "poimently" (unless big n' publick apologies happen but that ain't gonna be the case)...
I wrote a bit on this'un too, seems a tad timely with them current "am-nasty" mutterins' goin' round:
https://thcsofdaisymoses.substack.com/p/forget-me-not-a-demand-from-the-banned
So we gotta forge sum' new paths here in AmeriKa... cuz in the "ahrts" they was "fahrts"--even whin they took the danged masks off the blinders wuz still on tight!
That was a great post. Thank you for sharing it.
Laughin' good at this, nope this here's me in "carrot-ter" - from one "act-tryst" to another! I used'ta also make films and wear a few other hats as well, but they'z all in mothballs now thanks-not-at-all ta the Nu Whirled Odor hittin' the "ahrts" here like the speed'o'sound. (It's all in my postin's--all the first ones 'r me rantin' about bein' banned as'well as my daughterz--my younger'un was on some big NYC stages, sang at Carnegie Hall... now banned she's singin' in the shower and no more dance classes...) Anyway, I wuz hoppin' mad (still am...)
But anywhoo...
I just like ta' turn the "cultural appropriation" puck they like to sling at us like a dodgeball inta' so much corn (n' corny) bread n' butter, sort'a like "actin' on paper" if it makes sense. And'a course this per'aps non-peecee hillbilly character happens to be one very close'ta my own heart so it's sincere (an' fun). Yup, I'm a New Yawker (with a bit'o MidWest in me too), city gal thru n' thru, but I do have a deep fondness fer all things "Country," not to mention Daisy Moses, my fav'rit Clampett, so fer now this nice Stack'O'Corncakes iz my (grand ol') Opry!
We all gotta enjoy our "carrot-ters" so we're good at "seein' things!"
I’m definitely enjoying reading it. I have to read it in that southern voice too so it flows easier for me. Very fun. Reminds me of when I was reading “Confederacy of Dunces” - the dialect was so thick I had to act out the character in my head in order to understand it.
Sorry to hear about your daughters and your own plight. I imagine there will be an opportunity yet, the arts wanting us back, but would we want to return? I found out the theatre community in Chicago is a pack of high school mean girls. Don’t want anything to do with it.
No cell phones or social media at the time. Played word games on long car rides and taught them to love chess. And poetry.
I would be a mother on the verge of breakdown if raising kids nowadays. Sending you strength.
Received. 🙏
We still play word games on road trips!! Even with cell phones as an option.
I will vote against my local sheriff. He gets all good old boy and rounds up his possy to go git the cougar, thoroughly out of touch, doesn't think outside the box and disliked by a majority and our vote will count. beyond that? forget it, completely corrupt and no i refuse to put my energy there and i feel it is a shameful practice. people get aghast when you don't do "something" forgetting that when you do nothing something else presents itself. something else that may have much more of an effect than playing into the rotten system. What will change current day politics? Maybe that like cancer it eats itself and the host? My gut says 100% that voting wont be it. Now if you want to get together and form a couple million strong army where we refuse to pay taxes on grounds of immoral acts then yes. I'll join that.
😂 you and my ma should hang out.
I’m hoping the game B folks are going to set a template of how to exit these paradigms with as little adversity as possible.
Spot on. Excellent words, and great vid. Thank you.
A farce of lifetimes. Countless lives shaped by support and opposition to ideas and struggle which serves an invisible elite. It’s too frightening and appalling for many to bear. Like looking into the blinding light of the sun. Too pure, too true.
The truth will be a painful awakening for the sleepers, and it is coming.
You missed the memo... The cool kids vote to make the fraud more obvious :-)
Vote for the party the MSM tells you not to vote for.
And if you want to play along, make sure to vote on election day, it makes them have to cheat harder.
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If you are not going to vote, at least check the voter rolls a month after the elections to make sure no one else voted for you ;-)
You know waaaaay more about election fraud than I do. I’m still into you explaining how it happened in 2020. I’ll read a stack on that.
Loved this new vide-yo an' agree with jus'bout all've it (enjoyed the narration too!), though the black'pillin' angle leaves little hope fer those cheerin' on "team humanity". YET an' BUT herez a thought (from a crackpot that ain't voted in 20-some years but is changin' my tune at least this oncet.....)--which is what the always cynical an' wry (but none-the-less cheerful) James Corbett suggests... git'em on ALL SIDES if ya can... Git'em!
So... it's not gonna be solved in any one way but the sum-total of the parts MAY buy us time and get us on a saner road--not gonna be a fix , but I'll take a band-aid 'stead of a cyanide pill fer now...
So Corbett 'splains that just in the judicial won't do it--but better rulin's are a piece of it. So... some've us 'r holdin' our cheerin' breaths fer Todd Callender, Katherine Watt, an' Tom Renz not to fergit the Brave'un here in New Yawk--Bobbie-Anne-Cox--who got'a judge to take down the quarantine camp "rulings" deemin' them unconstitutional . Woohoo! Let's hear it here, too, fer the judge in our Staten Island that sided against the mandates fer city workers and ordered they be re-hired and given lost back pay. So let's not dismiss this "angle" and how we vote matters in terms of all things judicial...
Next we have wildcards like protests--as Corbett sez, a few folks showin' up ain't gonna cut the mustard but gigunda crowds DO. So the Canadian Truckers showin' up was The Beans! Made Turd-o look like a fool sayin' those protestin' wuz all Nazis and Racists and Supremacists--why that was the nicest most peaceable crowd'ya'd ever seen gather 'round some nice Maple leaves! Lotsa folks woke up a little seein' the police brutality an' all... An today, in Brazil, folks callin' out the 'lection fraud--may they prevail!!! And yes, even Jan 6th (trap aside)--that wuz quite the turnout! There IS something to it when huge numbers show up... not on its own agin'...but as a factor...
Next, ya gotz laws an' bills -- legislative stuffin'--and blessin's to all who are workin' that angle too--fightin' fer the constitution tooth n' fingernail This is the slow boat (not to Chynna! tho)... but by all means let it in the harbor when it arrives!
There's the alt-news and folks like Tucker n' Rogan n' Iverson who have bigger foller'ins--but there ARE some of the awake voices (like Steve Kirsch) that have gazillions of subscribers--so that's another angle too!
AND THEN yup, we have the votes. Here in NY State we have a reasonable guy (R-Zeldin) who sez no mandatory jabs 'r lockdowns and no mandated sex id in the "skools" vs a Witch Lady that wants not only to mandate the jabs but to lock us all in quarantine camps, no way out! And she claims there ain't no rise in crime here (Blind-as-a-Bat Witch!) and that kids young as 12 should make all their own "medi-cull" decisions (like clot shots and gender switcheroos). Who seems better? Well, if'n nobody votes they ain't helpin'.
Yup, in some 'lections it's a "why bother" but not this one--this ain't the same b/c just as yer vide-yo sez, this once independent and self-sufficient brave nation is now poised just above the all-destroyin' acid drip! Dr Phibes an' his minions (and we know who THEY are, more 'r less) are gonna kill the kid (our relatively young nation....) unless we can act fast, find the key, push away the gurney a'fore the acid drops. No harm tryin' (I do think this...)
Votin' in this 'lection is just pushin' away the gurney but it may save the patient's life--so I say heck yeah y'all, let's push that sucker away a bit now iff'in we kin-- Give'us time to see what we might do (even if it's growin' some danged veggies that the D-Wave psycho guv'nerds would otherwise con-fist-skate).
Patient's still on the table, check--body split open (like the nation) and bleedin' but I say just givin' up on makin' an attempt at savin' a life--er a nation--ain't a "plan" --it's what it sounds like--givin' up.
So this ol' naysayer an' non-voter is suggestin' some've us "damned if ya doers damed if ya don'terz" make an exception this time 'round--outlier tho it may be.
I'm with Scarlett an' her carrot--I sez do what'cha kin even if all'in ya got is DIRT n' rainwater. Grow somethin' any which way! (--an' while yer at it.... don't eat the bugs!)
An if they trick out the mash-ines and stop the "red wave".... well, there might jus' be a stampede. My bootz is ready! Re that wave, I'm not even sure if they pull sumthin' funny that they can put all the (lost) blood back into the elevator at The Overlook Hotel Votin' Booth Center--'member what happened to Jack? Freeze'im blue... cuz we're sick'n tarred've feelin'... blue.
👏 👏 👏 what a rant! I didn’t think you were in NY, Daisy, with the dialect and all. I thought you were down south someplace.
I'm just about there.
Well done to you and Mr. Blake. The thing is, work like this is waking people up. It may be a light shower in the ocean but a year ago it would have been only a few drops. I concur with every word you have written in this post. I am in the UK but I have followed US politics since the Kennedy era and I have had EXACTLY the same mind journey (no kidding) regarding Obama, Trump/Clinton as you are expressing here. Furthermore I have no intention of voting in the next UK national election for exactly the same reasons. I will not endorse corruption. More and more people I have contact with in this country share the same frame of mind. In a sense Covid and the jabs (and now Ukraine) - for all the tragedies some have had to endure - is the gift that keeps on giving because it is becoming increasingly obvious with every new, breaking story (not in the MSM) that those who govern us do not represent us (forget House of Representatives or House of Commons, meaning The People) and have just hijacked the system for their own benefit. It's becoming painfully transparent to all but the wilfully blind. We will win this.
I do think they’re counting on us not talking to one another. It’s worked for quite a long time, but now the reality of it all is here. The UK might be small but it’s mighty and what happens there is a good indication of what else might be coming to the rest of the world.