What the f#*% is wrong with the United States?
Sometimes it seems as though the English language needs some new cuss words since the F-bomb gets used so much it’s starting to lose its impact. (To be polite I did censor it in this essay, though.)
First – this country seems to be waging war against the homeless and the poor. Gentrification is destroying affordable housing, while greedy companies are snapping up homes for sale and offering them for rent. Cities are passing ordnances against feeding the homeless. I wrote before about how this country manhandles the unhoused, so I won’t go over that ground again.
WHAT THE F#*%?
Second – recently the United Nations voted on whether or not food is a human right. The wonderful US of A was the only country to vote that food is not a human right.
Yep, you read that right – the USA was the ONLY COUNTRY that voted food is not a human right. Not Russia, not North Korea, not China, not some third world developing country, but the country that should be the First World poster child voted that people do not have the right to eat. What a country – we force womb-bearers of every age to give birth, but don’t believe in feeding anybody.
WHAT THE F#*%?
Third – Patrick Braxton, the duly elected Mayor of Newbern, AL, is not being allowed to serve. He ran properly, dotting all his i’s and crossing all his t’s, to be Mayor of a town that is 85% African-American. The town had not seen a proper election for six decades, so Braxton submitted all of the necessary paperwork, and being the only one to do so he became Mayor. However, the town’s white minority (sound like a certain country?) Is determined to keep Braxton out of City Hall.
WHAT THE F#*%?
Fourth – In Cedar Glen, CA, Lauri Carleton, owner of the Mag.pi shop, was shot and killed for displaying the rainbow Pride flag. Police gunned down the suspect, but the hate remains. Carleton is likely to be called a martyr, but extreme right wingers could label her killer a martyr, also.
It’s not safe to display a flag that shows your support for non-binary people? What’s next – shooting somebody for having a “Black Lives Matter” sign in his/her front yard? One could go on and on and on about how vicious and violent right-wing bugnuts are. The January 6th putsch is a very obvious example – and there are plenty more. Plenty more.
WHAT THE ACTUAL F#*%?
Finally – When tRump went to the Fulton County Jail to face his indictments in Georgia, dozens of supporters lined the street. Already some wack jobs are calling for violence if TFG is convicted of any of the charges brought against him. His glowering mug shot has become a bloody shirt for the extreme right.
In several articles I have read that the next civil war in this country may not involve secession, but be individual actions by small groups committing acts of terror. The war may be more like civil wars in other countries, pitting neighbor against neighbor, tearing families apart, with no definable boundaries between This Side and That Side. It will be ragtag rebels against the Feds. Both sides will claim to be the Good Guys, while both sides behave like Bad Guys.
We can still turn this country around and set it back on the path towards civilization, but we have to watch out for the nut jobs who have funny ideas about what constitutes real civilization.
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