Ok. So as you all know, I am on the verge of either moving to Canada or going insane. It was a giant new billboard about Habitat for Humanity along one of our major Interstates that tipped me yet again towards comtemplating one or the other. It is being constantly subjected to this National Mind Duck (ok, I am sure TPM wants us to remain upstanding and civil so just get the point I am not talking about a duck. Actually this brings to mind when I was in elementary school and of course, some kids had sprayed "F---k Off" on the side of the school. The administration's response was to convert the word F---k to BOOK so now it said, "Book Off" no doubt an idea of the libarian's. Unfortunately, this did not really work because then we were telling one another and the teachers to just "book off" follwed by uncontrollable giggling. What were they going to do?). Where was I? Oh, you get the point about the duck.
National Mind Duck is also something I call the American Law of the Opposite of the Expected Logical Reaction (ALOELR for short). ALOELR is when you expect a logical outcome to a series of events but the opposite happens. It started with the stolen election of 2000 and never stopped.
"There's NO WAY those mofo's (moducks) are going to get away with this..." Remember saying this to yourself during the whole election fiasco in 2000? Well, guess what? They did.
Then there was the re-election of Bush after the first 4 years of nightmare and again, we all thought, "no way. NO WAY." Well, it happened.
Then there was Kerry and Edwards pontificating that "every vote would be counted" but by the next morning, Kerry might as well as been windsurfing and Edwards was, well, who knows but again, the OPPOSITE of what we expected to happen, happened.
At this point, incredulity is so high, there is a shock factor to take into consideration. Each time this happens, we all go into a kind of collective shock.
Then there was the election of the Democratically led Congress and 24-hours into it, Nancy Pelosi makes it clear some kind of deal was cut with the Bush Crime Family and she immediately takes impeachment off the table. This is after we all elected her and her spineless compatriots to put impeachment ON THE TABLE and end the war but ONCE AGAIN, what we expect to be the LOGICAL response to our heart-warming grass roots democracy--isn't.
Moving right along to Obama--we are still experiencing it. From pardoning the torturers who acted so illegally and brutally towards innocent human beings, to the bailout which brings me to the epiphenomenon about the Habitat for Humanity billboard. "Let me get this straight," I said to myself in the car, "we just kicked thousands of people out of their homes while simultaneously giving billions of our tax dollars to the same people who caused the whole damn mess and today they are voting to give themselves bonuses again but I just drove by a billboard for Habitat for Humanity that shows a white woman and a black guy smiling and saying something to the effect of "welcome home"...so is someone who got kicked out of their home now getting a home built for them by Habitat for Humanity which no doubt gets philanthropic funding from some of the same firms we gave bail out money to?" Do you see what I mean? It is enough to make me want to run my car off a cliff. Nothing makes sense anymore in this country. Nothing follows a logical progression anymore.
The men and women that caused the economic collapse are now IN CHARGE of THEIR OWN BAIL OUT WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS AND THIS IS SUPPORTED BY A BLACK PRESIDENT WE ELECTED WHO REPRESENTED "CHANGE"??? Would not the logical progression of this situation be to keep people in their homes somehow and fire the lame asses of the people who caused this situation but instead we force people into homelessness and give billions to the men and women who caused the entire situation and we even put them in the cabinet of the new black president who represents CHANGE?
On a local level here in California, we now find out our Governor Boobengraber is pulverizing public employees and hiring private contractors in their place during a massive "budget crisis..."
Oh MY God. Would be ok if I lost my mind now?
It's called National Mind F--K or ALOLR and is making our entire country go insane. The reason it is happening is in spite of protests, we are being ignored. It started in 2000 and continues to this day. It is not, as so many bloggers, pundits, writers attest that we just don't care. We do. We are being creamed. Ruined. Losing everything. You're damn right we care. But the powers that be, both Democrat and Republican, learned an extremely important lesson in 2000--IGNORE THEM. WE ARE BEING IGNORED. Ignoring citizens is legal. It is free and it is easy to do. Eventually, if you blow them off enough times, they are so beaten down, they will go away. It helps to shred their lives as welll--take their homes. Cut their pay.Give their money to creeps and call it a "stimulus plan."
I reject that Americans are being apathetic about what is happening. We are ducking angry but somewhere along the line, they all learned to ignore the hell out of us. And THIS is what is happening, not apathy.
What it symbolizes is the utter end of justice in this country and a Republic in serious serious decline and if you are one of the poor working slobs on to which the shit will fall, you may want to get a clue or get to Canada or get a straightjacket or both.
America as the one giant National Lampoon skit it is only it's not funny for most of us. It has the capacity to ruin our lives and American society-- Thomas Paine rolls in his grave.