RAGE, COMPASSION & DISGUST AS THE COUNT GOES ON

As the election remains undecided this Thursday (!) morning, I’ve read a fair number of columns and posts. It might be safe to say they inspire quite a few strong feelings in me which seem to boil down to these: first, rage — at more than one group and not all on the other side. Second, compassion coupled with an equally strong desire to avoid being patronizing. Finally, disgust at one particular well-off group alongside squaring my shoulders for whatever my part might turn out to be in the mountain of work ahead of us to preserve democracy, the biosphere and, thereby, save civilization as well.
First, the rage. I cannot digest that a sixty percent majority of my fellow dough-faces either want to keep systemic racism going or don’t care one way or another! I want to roar to them, Don’t you care that such systemic racism is the NEGATION of everything we claim for our country?! Don’t you care how hollow and hypocritical our professions to be free ring in the ears of much of the world?! And don’t you care what devastation we’re leaving to our children and grandchildren?! Some, very likely most of you, are and have been very deliberately misinformed by others about how very real these problems are and that showing concern for these matters is no more than either hypersensitivity or, worse, an attempt to show how much better a person than you the ‘fretter’ is. On the other hand, the sources which also lie to you and keep your fears churning began by telling you what you wanted to hear, didn’t they?
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