The all too familiar scene of waking to some dreaded thought, with the inability to do anything but lie there and hope it all goes away so that you can get back to the wonderful comatose state of sleep. Of course it never happens for me (the getting back to sleep part). I should know better than to think it might. I guess it’s been awhile and I’m out of practice. What I figured out when I had bouts of insomnia before, is that you GET UP and start doing something… anything that will take your mind off of whatever horror it is that woke you.
Yeah. Fat chance of that. It’s fucking deja vu for the eleventy-seventh time. Remembering the Future. What a perfect description. You gotta love the French.
There are so many things I don’t have figured out. I’m definitely no mental giant, but I AM a thinking person. I surely don’t have all the answers, but I do try to understand why things are the way they are. I pretty much question everything. It seems there aren’t really that many of us around. No one THINKS for themselves. Are they just lazy, or are they incapable? They think whatever their husband thinks, or whatever Rush thinks, or whatever they overheard that someone in the checkout line thinks, or what their friend’s brother said. Lots of women believe anything a man says… ANY man.
Maybe their beliefs are what their priest said last Sunday, or what they heard on Fox “News”, or maybe hold-overs from what their parents thought. What irritates me the most is that they defend their “belief” steadfastly, but can’t discuss it because they don’t know WHY they believe it. When a woman I know was ranting about Hillary Clinton, I asked her why she hated her so much, and the only reason she had was, “Because I just DO!”. This same woman told me that my “main” problem (I guess she has a list) was that I was “too educated”. Hmmmm.
Let me just say right now, I never thought I would want to write about anything political on this blog, even though I am vastly interested in what goes on in the world. I thought this blog would be a “politics-free” zone, with quilts and sewing and knitting and creative endeavors taking the lead. So much for that with this post. Waking up in a cold sweat pushed the fabric and yarn right out of the window.
So yeah, I wake up with a sense of dread. The RNC is having their convention right now. I don’t watch it. I didn’t watch the DNC either. It’s bullshit, and I don’t need an overload of that. No speeches, no applause, no attacks, no soaring rhetoric… it’s all such crap. But who can escape Sarah Palin and her “American Story”? “I’m just like you!” ?? They drag the “Shotgun Son-in-Law” to the convention to stand there with her pregnant daughter to prove that they are “just like us”???? Oh PLEASE!! Are people really that easily manipulated? I know the answer is “yes”, and it makes me so sad. These are the same people who can’t tell you what the “Support the Troops” sticker on their car means.
Someone on CNN actually DARED to ask a question about Palin’s record as governor, and then McCain cancelled his interview on CNN with Larry King?? Shit, Larry King’s not going to ask any tough questions. Yeah, and so much for wanting “the people” to get to know much about her that actually matters. What are they afraid of?
I want to scream. If this isn’t a Karl Rove orchestration, I don’t know what is, and I just KNOW in my heart of hearts that this is going to work for them. It makes me so sad that our nation actually has a chance to do a turn-around, and he’s going to make sure it doesn’t happen. Just like 2000. Just like 2004. Of course it will take some rigging of the elections (Hello paperless Voting Machines!) and some of his evil minions working on some “Swift Boating” tactics, but he will stop at nothing. He made a spoiled, rich, yankee, cocaine-sniffing preppie, D-student, drunk-driving, bumbling mama’s boy into a cowboy (who can’t even ride a horse, but clears some MEAN brush!), and everyone (well, not EVERYONE) wanted to have a beer with him and make him president… TWICE!!
Karl Rove. He’s got a lot on the line, so he’s fighting to keep himself out of jail. Payback just might really BE a bitch (or make him one), so he’s going to make sure he doesn’t have to find out. Makes a win for the Republicans just about a sure thing. He’ll stop at NOTHING. He’ll sacrifice ANYONE. He is like the Terminator, and the people who won’t stop to think for themselves don’t think a thing of it. People where I live don’t even know who he is, and I’m sure that’s how connected the general non-thinking public is. If ever there was an evil in this world that showed itself in a human (?) form, Karl Rove is that. Even the fate of our nation comes down to how evil and underhanded can he be, and how evil and underhanded can he make John McCain and Sarah Palin be. With John McCain, I think he sold his soul a while ago. Don’t know how long ago it was for Palin.
God, I used to love that man. He was like a ray of sunshine on a dismal day. Now his “respectful campaign” is just a Karl Rove free-for-all, and John is in there slinging the crap with gusto.
I do have to say that the “Original” John McCain that I liked so much peeked out the other day when he spoke of Bush’s meeting with Vladmir Putin, when Bush famously “looked into his eyes and saw his soul” (gag). John said that he saw something in his eyes too, “the letters K-G-B”. Now, if that isn’t classic McCain, I don’t know what is. What happened to that man? Did they send him back to the Hanoi Hilton and put the “fake” John McCain in his place? So sad. Bring back the “real” John McCain. Let him pick a running mate who is a free thinker too! We just might have a chance no matter which party wins! Ooops. TOO LATE.
So now I have to toughen up and put on the steel underwear to get ready for the non-thinkers once again to decide the fate of our country. It’s going to happen. It’s 2000 all over again and then some, because our country is in such more pitiful condition. It can’t survive another snatch-and-grab administration. Our nation is on the brink, and all of the people who don’t care, and the ones who cant think for themselves, and the “I’m just like you” believers don’t have a clue what’s in store.
And I wonder why I have a depression problem.
3 responses so far ↓
Robin // September 8, 2008 at 12:43 am
OK my dear…YIKES! yes we are on the brink with this election and we should all be doing our best to “vote as if our future depends on it” as I saw on the bumper of a car recently. What a concept! It’s not a popularity contest. It’s our goddamn future! What are people thinking!!!!
And yes, I continue to run with scissors my dear friend!!!!
Jan // September 16, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I took a risk and sent out a political email to nearly everyone in my contacts: liberal friends and relatives, and conservative relatives, since most of my friends are liberal. Tired of sending these gems–they look real to ME!–to the already converted. 2 negative responses so far; one from a local who demanded (nicely) no unsolicited political emails. The other, quite long, from the branch of the family which populates our military to and far beyond the
extent required. My forwarded email had nothing to do with the military and everything to do with Palin’s woeful, scary, hubristic lack of experience, and was illustrated by a series of comparisons of O’s and P’s backgrounds, along with comments on how skewed the MSM portrayal of same are. I couched the whole thing in largely respectful language to soften some of the characterizations, (eg there’s nothing inherently WRONG with Todd’s lack of education, or Sarah’s progressive dinner-style college attendance, and can’t we agree that educated partners for our P and VP are preferable????), but still caught hell for being ANTI-MILITARY!!!!! And I spent far too much time today writing my intro, trying to be fair. What a waste–guess I’ve learned my lesson! Give me some undecideds, any day, if you can find any.
Maddening!
Jan // September 16, 2008 at 4:14 pm
p.s. This would be keeping me awake, too, except that I am smitten and therefore suffering a completely different kind of distraction when I am awake in the night.