Out of Outrage, Dealing with Disgust

I protested the VN war as more and more of my generation went off to die needlessly or be turned into PTSD zombies, like my now ex-husband and all his brothers.

I remember the days when my VN vet husband couldn’t get a job because employers thought them unstable, which was true.  But there was also no corresponding effort to help our vets re-assimilate either.

I fought to raise my three children alone that my ex- abandoned when he could no longer manage his CRAZY.

I dropped out of politics and voting all through the ’80s and ’90s, so I will accept my fair share of the blame for my own cynicism and for being missing-in-action as a citizen.

Oh, and I homeschooled my three children.  So that should make me a pariah in liberal circles almost as my being anti-war endowed me with such status on the right side of the political spectrum.

My generation has paid dearly for the sins of our forefathers in every way imagineable.  We have had to retrain any number of times as new technologies took our jobs.  We entered our adulthood as stagflation was foreclosing on career opportunities.  Go to college?  Sure, but that degree would get you absolutely NOWHERE fast.

I worked three jobs earning less than $2/hour each job.  Oh, and there was a freeze on wages, so the slavers had all the chips on their side of the table.  

I have not had medical care since 1990.  No insurance.  No job since 2000 — and that was a temporary part-time position.  Couldn’t get a full-time job in Dallas-Ft.Worth because businesses found a way to cope with rising healthcare costs — they simply utilized temporary labor to whack off employee-related liabilities.  

All the while companies in DFW were sprouting up as clones to usher in a larger H1B visa workforce, who would be more pliable slaves in the masters’ hands.

We know that the trio of fraudsters in the UK who were faking credentials and education documents probably can’t touch the fraud that has gone on here.  Very few I know can doubt that this fraud was done with the knowledge of the State Department and Bushies during the last eight years.  

Bill Gates likes to tout foreign workers as superior in math and sciences.  Anyone who has ever had to work with these superior minds knows that’s a LIE.  It’s just easier to do a braindrain on foreign countries than to pay legitimate wages to American citizens.  Besides, when these superior minds become citizens, they join us in the unemployment lines.  There is really only one crime, you see, and that is the crime of being a United States citizen.  

I knew in 2000 that all avenues of communicating the will of the people were shut down by special interests.  It was as if Grover Norquist and Karl Rove and K Street had dug a moat around the people’s congress, installed alligators and crocs in the ditch with a drawbridge accessible only to the pay-to-play corporate citizenry.  

Americans do not have access to their own government and haven’t had for decades.  There is the illusion of representative government with no substance.

Last year Americans remembered their spirits and stood up to take back their government.  None of the people I saw or worked with looked anything like Mr. and Mrs. American in your picture.

Nor do they look like that now as they face foreclosure on their homes, repossesed vehicles, loss of jobs and healthcare coverage, etc.  No, they’re panicked, not passive.  They are too busy scrambling to make it from payday to payday to yell louder.  They are in extremis.

Of course, this was the plan of the fascist pig bushies — to leave behind nothing but destruction in their wake.  

Mission fucking accomplished.  Now we have to find a way to rebuild everything they tore down.  Oh, yeah, and find a way to exit two wars.

Yippie.