Facing an Uncertain Future I Feel a Combination of Hopelessness and Rage
Some part of me can't help but believe that this result didn't represent the will of the people
I am tired of people who lie.
I’m tired of bullies.
I’m tired of people who smirk and who say awful things and who are secure in the knowledge that they are untouchable.
I’m tired of con men. I’m tired of rich men who were born into luxury, who never had to work, and who spend all their time making other people suffer.
Why?
Why do they do that when they could so easily choose to help?
They could so easily choose compassion.
They could so easily choose love.
Instead they gobble up hate and then vomit it back up at the rest of us. They spew it at us from their puckered up sphincter mouths.
Tonight, a lot of innocent people will go to bed uncertain and afraid. They don’t know if they’ll be confronted with violence in the morning.
Will death squads come to round them up and take them away?
It was promised. It was talked about. That’s the kind of thing our country thinks is “funny.”
I don’t think it’s funny.
The only thing the huddled masses have to hang their hope on is that the threats were promised by a liar.
Maybe he was lying about all the pain he’s going to bring.
Small consolation.
These are hardworking people. These are children. These are decent human beings who have done nothing wrong.
We’ve lost our respect for humanity. Our adversaries spit words like “diversity” and “woke” as if they were curses.
The next swear words will be terms like “kindness” and “charity” and “freedom.”
Get rid of all that, people just abuse it. Soon that motto will be printed on our coins beneath the scowling face of a privileged madman.
You wait.
Yesterday we had a decent human being as president. I didn’t agree with him on everything, but he was decent. He loved his wife. His wife loved him. He loved his kids. Dogs could stand to be in his presence.
Now, not so much.
Today, we have a vindictive government set on punishing people just because the people in charge take pleasure in inflicting pain.
There’s not even any sense to it, they just like to see people squirm.
Over the next four years, there will be absolutely no impulse to help anyone in need. They’ll only assist the obscenely rich who are perpetually dissatisfied no matter how much they get.
Everyone else be damned.
All they’re going to do is lie, cheat, steal, and punish because that’s all they’ve ever done.
They censor the history they don’t want us to know even as they say history can’t be erased.
They don’t want us to know their game plan.
If you don’t learn history, you repeat it.
Isn’t that what they say?
I’m sick of living beneath the torment of untouchable people.
I’m sick of different sets of rules.
I’m sick of the look on the faces of priests who have absolute confidence that they’ll never be held accountable for their horrific transgressions.
The look is something between a scowl and a smirk. It’s the look of judgment.
They don’t think they’re “next to god” they think they are god. They don’t even try to hide it.
They silence you before you even have a chance to speak. Who are you to criticize them?
How dare you.
Authority doesn’t punish you because you’re wrong. Authority punishes you because you had the nerve to allow yourself to think you might be right.
Orient yourself. Figure out the fight you’re in.
The only people allowed to be right are the rich white men. Nobody else is even allowed to speak.
We can disagree and still be friends, as long as you keep your disagreement to yourself.
You’re just a thing to them. You’re a toy. You’re not even a treasured toy. You’re a toy they tear the head off and toss into the lawn mower and blow up with fireworks just because they can.
The needle has moved so far in the direction of madness that cruelty has become normalized and reason is a crime.
Basic concepts that should be obvious are dismissed without consideration.
Human beings should be treated with dignity. Children have a right to an education. Hate speech should not be tolerated. Today, these are considered “radical” beliefs.
We should hold these truths to be self-evident.
Instead, they’re censored.
I’m tired of having to explain to people that women deserve access to life-saving reproductive healthcare.
There’s a procedure that can save a life after a miscarriage.
There’s a procedure that’s used to treat an Ectopic pregnancy.
People who ban books without reading them and who hate women have denied women the right to their own bodies.
Even worse, the foolish masses failed to realize that Roe V. Wade protected your right to privacy.
Privacy.
They tell us to fear the government, then they strip us of our right to privacy.
It’s gone, burned up, taken, stolen…
What the hell is wrong with the world? Where’s the justice? Where’s the common sense? Where’s the reason?
When you’re in a contest with a cheater, you should expect him to cheat in the contest.
People keep telling me, “Maybe it won’t be so bad.”
Small consolation.
That’s the best you can do?
My children deserve to live in a world where there’s hope.
They deserve hope.
Will you contest that too? Will you attempt to strip that from them? You aren’t even allowing them hope?
It’s pretty hard to live without hope.
Tonight we all go to bed.
Consider that some of the people you’ve called neighbor won’t be there when you awaken in the morning. That was the promise.
If they are there, some of your neighbors will be very mad.
There’s no win here. Every outcome contains pain. That was the point from the beginning. We tried to tell you. You didn’t listen.
“Maybe it won’t be so bad.”
Stress can kill as surely as a bullet. Millions of people are coping with terrible stress tonight. They’ll cope with it tomorrow. They’ll cope with it for as long as this reign of terror extends.
Until they go numb. Until they become as dead inside as the people who lead us. Until the last little ember of hope has gone cold.
What will happen then?
Maybe it will be bad.
Maybe it will be very, very bad.
We shouldn’t play these cruel games with people.
We deserve better than this.
I cling to hope that this result did not represent the will of the people. I would prefer to be united with my neighbor in a common cause and against a common enemy.
Let’s us combine our labors in pursuit of mutual prosperity and peace.
Let’s be guided by reason and respect for human dignity.
Let’s go to sleep awaiting the dawn of that morning.
I’ll hope for that day.
I’ll continue to hope until all hope is gone.
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His first actions were vindictive and cruel. Biden was right to preemptively pardon people. Decent people have to learn to fight.