Amazing, wondrous, Post -election, Barack Obama is the new President elect. How this has tempered my art life and my thinking is pretty amazing. There is a new lilt to my speaking , a skip in my step and a weight to my shoulders as I look at what he has been elected to and the work to be done ahead.
There is a deep, vicious undercurrent as well as an economic fiasco inherited from the current occupant in the "house" The viciousness of the Red/Republican base with hate mongers and fearful people of the far right and the fundamentalist, Neoconservative persuasion is deeply troubling and so true to form. Far right wing, Ku Klux Klan and neo-nazi web sites are raking in the gullible, the vile, dispossessed and the evil ones.
I find that I cannot use the words of hatred and terror to describe them. And yes, I do believe there are domestic terrorists of a different stripe here in America. I believe there are evil ones out there just doing their best to bring misery and turmoil to the world. Power over, patriarchial madness will not go softly into the night, not without taking a whole lot of the innocents with them. I want to believe in their higher natures, but I do not trust them for they have only shown their embittered, ugly views.
Sad that they are so polarized and fixed in their hatred. What a deep shame they bring upon us as a nation. And that is not to absolve the far left liberals, (can we say anarchists) either. There is so much that must be done and divisive stupidity will serve no one.
Love is a verb.
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