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AmericanActivist's JournalWilliam Wallace and Braveheart a recollection
I recall in the movie Braveheart, William Wallace returned to his village and wanted to start a life. He wanted to settle down, build a home, find a wife and have a family. Basically he wanted to pursue “life, liberty and happiness” in his own way and in his time. Lately, I think about this and many other people who surely must have wanted to create a life but were unaware to do so given the burdens imposed on them in their historical time periods. This is how it feels now to me in the USA.
In fact, I have felt this before although I thought the darkness had passed; having survived the horrible 8 years of W & Cheney when time and attention was siphoned away from my personal life due to the constant affront and threat from the government with their looting and war crimes and gov by PR stunts. Then, thankfully, having 8 years of peace under President Obama and Vice Pres Biden to return my focus to my personal life which has given way to the current hell of living in the USA now which is worse than W - something I never, ever could have imagined previously.
All of this makes me think of people throughout history who no doubt wanted a peaceful life; a life where they could pursue their own concept of liberty and happiness. People who, instead of life, because of circumstances thrust upon them, circumstances too large to escape or ignore lost their life, either figuratively or literally. Better people than me who endured the worst, the most heinous crimes against humanity, abuse, war, destruction, pillaging and more.
I wonder how people lived during these horrible times? How they endured? How some of them even lived to overcome?
Currently it seems those of us who, like William Wallace so long ago, who just want to create and live a life have been set on a collision course with circumstances set against us.
The Haves and the Have-Nots
For approximately 25 years, the bulk of my adult life here in the USA, I have had this idea that somehow, someday there would be a clash between the haves and the have-nots. The tensions have been brewing for decades. I am not an economist yet the circumstances are plain as the noses on our faces. If I were gifted in economic language and theory I could give details about precipitating factors. A few things that come to mind from a lay person’s perspective are: deregulation by Reagan, Union busting, lack of living wage, wages that haven’t kept up with cost of living, the intentional destruction of our economy by GOP during W’s terms and now Trump, an economic atmosphere that is stacked against working class...to name a few things. This Tax Heist is an abomination and an afront. I wonder if this will be the impetus for the fight I have anticipated for decades, one that would eventually, inevitably happen?
Woke up this morning with image of DU hack in
my mind. On “election” day in Nov 2016 this site was hacked. I have been a long time member here dating way back to W after Selection 2000. The image forced upon me, and upon every user here, is vivid and piercing. After last night’s Tax heist by KGOP this is the image I woke up with. If you experienced it, then you know; you can see it now I would venture a guess. If not, this post won’t mean anything to you...my apologies.
There are many disturbing and atrocious aspects of this tax heist but the most heinous is the blatant disregard for the majority of the American people by the KGOP. The process failed. The institution failed. The rule of law failed (again). The people who are supposed to represent their constituents clearly did not and have not. It’s like a double dog dare to the majority of Americans in a modern day “taxation without representation” to take action. The fact that our government has been involved in a hostile takeover is horrifying. The KGOP forced this Tax heist down our throats. They know the majority of Americans are against it. They don’t care. Their lack of care is terrifying on many levels.
Their actions against their constituents are a dereliction of duty but they act without concern for the future...as if they are immune. Why? That is an important question. Historically “vote em out” was a remedy one they are obviously not worried about.
Ok, who has The Bat Signal? I mean
it feels like we are living in Gotham City with the Republican level of corruption and hypocrisy. So we could use The Bat Signal to reach Batman.
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