Last night, I flittered in and out of sleep while Mrs WCGreen sat

[WCGreen]

watching as the far right wing of the corporate America party gathered to out do each other, to see who could bang the loudest with their club and throw feces at the government...

In a world, I love how they say that when they show a trailer for a movie, that accepts these people as the best and the brightest of their movement...

Well, we are in a pack of trouble.

Not because any of them could get elected president, but because they represent enough people to show how completely polarized and bat shit crazy politics in the 2010's has become.

There is a blood lust in there that creeps me out...

Seriously, I slept right through the kill 'em now and let god sort 'em out production line of death down there in TexAs comments from chief knuckle dragger himself and the ghoulish applause line that chilled me to the bone when I watched it on the You Tubes later.

I remember back in ninth grade Social Studies when they showed the movie Night and Fog and many of my peers cheered loudly because we had all heard about the bodies and the death right there that we would soon be cheering.

It disgusted my social science teacher, Mr. Campbell, who said in a very commanding voice, "If you can cheer after watching this than god help the future..."

No one cheered.

The violence loving club dragging wacko's have so dehumanized the "other" in this country that I am frightened that now the kids would cheer AFTER they saw that movie....

What does that say about America as we get deep into our third century that so many people still look back fondly at the time when anyone who wasn't white and protestant was ostracized.

Every day it seems I am more glad I did not have any kids...

[teddy51]

1. "Not because any of them could get elected president" I wish I

could be certain of that, but anything seems to be possible in this country. We have never lived in more scary times IMO.

[murielm99]

4. You certainly have that right.

I laughed when Reagan ran for President. I knew he was too dumb to get elected. He won in a landslide.

I laughed when Dubya ran. He was even dumber. He wasn't elected, but he was President.

We ALL need to GOTV.

I don't know if it is even scarier now. I really don't know. One's age and experience may have something to do with it. I was very frightened during the period when MLK and Bobbie were murdered. My parents were politically active, so I followed their lead. I couldn't think of any other way to DO something. I will be attending my forty-fifth high school reunion this fall. Some people still remember me as the girl who went door-to-door for candidates before she was even old enough to vote.

I've stepped back a bit lately. I need another purpose within the party, something that is more positive than what I have been doing. Many of the recent events have affected my personality and my health. I need to take care of myself, and how I view the world. Maybe you do too, teddy. Maybe we all do. I wish you the best.

[WCGreen]

5. 1968 was a big year for me...

Reagan had Carter and he was a lot stronger than any of the candidates that are around now...

Bush made it lose because people were feeling good and the press belittled Gore at any chance they could.

This is different.

These people are all losing the middle...

[elleng]

2. Thanks for this, WC.

I agree, understand, and am concerned 'cause I have 'kids,' one just married, and likely to add to our family. Awful to be concerned that my kids will have kids.
:(

[WCGreen]

3. That is so sad...

I remember growing up in a time of expanding opportunity and also a deep desire to make this country what it always professed to be...

I am in my fifties now and I not certain that growing old is going to be all that great...