We saw an election stolen, the will of the people denied. And in the aftermath we saw every progressive and humane aspect of government subverted. And we were outraged.
We saw the great City of New York attacked and even as people all around the world united in sympathy and gave help, criminals who had stolen power planned to go to war with the wrong enemy. And we were outraged.
We saw the social apparatus of our nation subverted and prostituted to engender mistrust and hatred towards anyone who would speak the truth. And we were outraged.
We saw a bloody war, an illegal war of aggression, spiral out of control, with “collateral damage” so high that it astounds the senses, hurts unbearably, as at the same time we saw our wounded soldiers untreated and abused by the very ones with power that sent them to this war. And we were outraged.
We saw the great City of New Orleans and the lovely Gulf Coast drowned and allowed to remain damaged, people treated like animals, again the hate unleashed by the criminals in power through a deranged media absorbed by its own profits and fears of retaliation by those very criminals. Whatever good reporters there may have been were quickly subsumed by corporate edits of complicity and kowtowing. And we were outraged.
We saw our rights being sold down the river, our own Democratic representatives so far removed from reality as to not even make a gesture towards real opposition to these criminals who have stolen power in America and destroyed our unity as a nation. And we were outraged.
We saw our justice system perverted beyond recognition, honest men and women punished for doing their jobs, laws against the weakest of us enforced with savagery and contempt for the simple basics of humanity, from poor folks with no health care to undocumented migrants being treated no differently than terrorists at Gitmo, to folks from public housing in New Orleans being forced into exile from their homes, their lives, exile and death, and oh, we were outraged.
And we saw a courageous man in Congress being forced to recant his words and apologize to appease the powers that still retain their dark hold over this country, even though the only powers left are those of destruction and fear and greed.
And I am no longer outraged. No. Nor am I shamed. My eyes are wide open now and I am not outraged nor ashamed.
I am resolved. My gaze is now level rather than rolling in terror and anger. I know this misAdministration for what they are and I know what they will do. I know our Democratic leadership for what they are as well, and they have made it clear what they will do.
This war must end. And this crew of criminals in the Executive Branch need to be removed from office. I know this. And I know that our present leadership, in both parties, have not made a commitment to doing either of these things.
I don’t blame anyone here for how they are now reacting to this reality. For those who feel they must leave the party, I have no words of censure. For those who will stay and fight for the party, I have no complaint. For those who must continue to yell, I have no need for refutation.
I am united with anyone who is against this misAdministration. I am united with all my brothers and sisters across this nation who see what is going on, and I will support all who oppose these criminals and their enablers. I will support in any way I can all my neighbors who help each other, from the terror attacks in New York City to the floods on the Gulf Coast to the terrible firestorms in California.
I have no more outrage, feel no more shame. What was done to Rep. Stark has shown me there is no longer any reason to respect those who have been charged with leading our nation. They are simply human beings who have been unable, for whatever reason, to do the right thing. They are not even worth my outrage.
I will focus my attention from now on to those who are able to do the right thing, from whatever walk of life they travel, powerful or with no power at all. I am resolved. I am not outraged and I am not ashamed.
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… the big orange.
and one of my credos
…at least, if we’re doing the stages of death.
that he will bring a motion of privilege (similar to H. Res. 333) to the floor of the House of Representatives sometime before Thanksgiving. What he expects to happen is that someone will immediately move to table it and this will require a vote (like the vote to censure Rep. Stark today – ugh!) which he feels will be tantamount to a vote on impeachment. He will be doing this with complete transparency, announcing it both to us and to the Democratic leadership. What this means is that we need to let our Reps know that we expect them to support this motion of privilege. And we need to seriously lean on the Democratic leadership to support it. We need to impress upon them that our support and our votes cannot be taken for granted, that there are consequences to not doing their jobs, to not doing the right thing.
I just pulled this from an email I sent to the PDA membership in Jerry Nadler’s district tonight. Since he is on the distribution I feel that I should be more tempered in what I write. But what I’d much prefer to send out is your rant, NPK.
If this hadn’t happened today, I wouldn’t believe it.
just a guess
As OPOL said:
They are not there to be “debated with” or legitimized by arguing with what they have to say as if it were “just another point of view as valid as any other”. They are there to marginalized , treated as pariahs, and driven into the tar pits of extinction.
” I am not outraged and I am not ashamed.”
I’m considering Canada–as I did in the sixties. It is Starkly evident that we are powerless, our friends are our enemies, our money is used for evil, we are going down the tubes.
My wife won’t leave the country unless our kids do, they won’t, I won’t leave my wife. I’m ashamed that I am soft and my country is rotten. In a very small sense, I’m Hamlet and Nancy Pelosi is my mommy. Why the fuck haven’t I done something?
my daughter was assigned Thomas Moore’s Utopia for her religion class…she stayed up & read the whole thing the day it arrived…then called me…mom, THis is where you got it from, right?, your views of ‘how it should be’?…huh, what? I’m on my first coffee, honey!…and she’s off—20 min or better explaining this book to me (o dummy ria)…
the part that really hit me, was how to deal with ‘wrongness’ or ‘badness’ in society…laughter!
Laugh at the basturds for their incompetence…and work Locally to get Your representation the Best it can be.
I’m so tired of these politicians thinking they have tenure privleges…we DO elect ALL of them …and I’m working local to get decent ppl to run & win…or for netrooters who I’ve read & admire…
like possum: http://www.dailykos….
do ALL you can to promote our own
…and not one damn dime or minute of time for Anyone who votes, promotes, appeases, apologizes for this misadministration
videos that Buhdydharma put up. I have asked others to watch them too and they have. We know what we need to do. We know what our goals are and where we are going and we will go there first alone, and that’s okay.
Yes.
Yes they are wide open, yet this misAdministration thinks we are blindfolded, distracted because that’s where they want us.
We must work harder every step of the way to see the truth, for they work harder and have the resources to keep us in the dark…
What comes after outrage? Self-empowerment.
Edger said it…everyone is a leader now…we must make that our truth, that WE THE PEOPLE have the power to bring about change, to make the reality we wish to see come to fruition.
We have the power to bring about change, but we must look inside ourselves to find the strength, the courage to stand up for what we believe in…to decide what we are willing to give up, sacrifice for the cause.
The cause? Peace. Pure and simple.
with depression and anger and, well, all that stuff yesterday. At lunch I actually said to a friend, “I’m done. They can all rot in hell.” I feel much better now having read your essay. Resolve Baby! That’s all that really matters.
I I I I I I I I I, and so on
remarkable.
on the edge so to speak, focused on not the particulars but the path itself. misdirected outrage is in itself a distraction. My coalitions are getting whittled down to not the ones offered, but like you the ones who see regardless of their power, demographics, access or influence. I’ll take the power of truth and you know it will prevail.
or
Revolution
even Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood
often misunderstood and certaily mistimed –
his having been under the tutelage
of AE Housman.
Wear masks and gloves.
Love well those you loves and
Let the scorn of other nations purge
This Ebola of all administrations.
No they aren’t, but you’re making progress.
Ok maybe you are making progress. Depends how many times you’ve felt the exact same way before.
the world would be a better place.
Focus, stop counting on those that offer solutions that are insane and do nothing but keep these assholes, the ones who know nothing but profit and power and lamely try to fool us into oblivion. The enemy is not just the Republicans but the entities behind the curtains of politics, the ones who to enslave us globally. Were faced vision of humanity that requires rejection. Not democratic not humane it’s just greed and nihilism trying to pass itself off as the once proud democracy it was, problems and all. Always a work in progress, democracy has now come to a screaming halt.