Cross posted at my blog.
George W. Bush has brought me to tears like no other politician. He has brought me to rage, to depression. I try to keep him out of my life, to stay out of depression and rage. But just when I think that I have turned my rage into something positive, into energy and effort to do what it takes to get our government back on track, George W. Bush does something so awful that I am once again sent into a tailspin of rage and despair.
This week has been a steady decline into disbelief. I knew that there was no compassion in George W. Bush. I knew this, and yet I expected that this hurricane would go as normal, as a response to a hurricane should go. How could I think this? How could I be naive enough to believe that with him in the White House things would not go terribly, terribly wrong?
I sit here, in tears, enraged, and I look back at this week from hell and I wonder what worse he’ll do. I look around at my neighborhood and I think: This is America. This is the America that must not tolerate Bush’s America. And yet, we do. How can this be? What is wrong with our republic? Who are these monsters that we’ve handed our country to?
I just watched the Fox video with Geraldo and Shepard. If you have not seen it, go to crooksandliars.com and see it to know how bad things are. I am stunned. Tens of thousands of people are locked up without food or water, forced to remain in lockdown and prevented from leaving for safety? How the hell can this be true? And to see Sean Hannity try to spin this away, to ignore the reality of such a tragic failure of government. To try and spin away warfare against the people of the United States. To see this, I am shaken to tears and rage and I just want this nightmare of the Bush administration to end.
We are witnessing a war in our own country. We are witnessing a callous and clueless rich and white elite wage war against the poor and Black of this nation. We are witnessing hatred towards fellow man, in our own country. But we should not be surprised. No, this has been going on for some time. Not only do we lock up the poor and Black to die of starvation, but we send the poor to fight wars of choice, greed and aggression. We wage those wars against the poor of the world. Our nation is now at war with the nation’s and the world’s poor – and today we are seeing this war in its gritty reality.
I am so deeply ashamed of my nation today. I am saddened by this reality. I am shaken to my core. I am enraged once more by the monster we have made our president. I wan this nightmare to end. I want this war to end. I am lost in an America that I do not know and cannot understand.
