a dark day for freedom
Jan. 20th, 2005 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffloWhy don't we use the powerful language of liberty in service of progressivism? Moreover, why don't those blasted Democrats? Is it because they are still afraid of the association with communism of the connotations of "power to the people" behind the real meaning of those words?
I am home while the second water meter dude freezes the incoming line as part of his attempt to get my water back on; the first water meter dude assured me no current meter readers would be losing their jobs, but that job just won't be there any more. No more flirting with the meter reader; alas.
Unfortunately, being home has allowed me to tune in to coverage of the inauguration. Early on Peter Jennings cited a picture of Bush with a NYC firefighter as having been from 9/11. Is it the official ABC position to make that mistake? Are we going to forget, in the mass media, where he was and wasn't that day?
As I live longer in this country I really do appreciate its (supposed) ideals more and more, but I am in fear for their future degree of realization, and I am horrified to realize that, by sheer virtue of our power, we are the greatest threat to ---hey, some heckler just was heard in the middle of this song! I'm sure the poor sucker is face down on the ground already, being handcuffed. Wish I coulda heard what he was saying.
We're the greatest threat to much of the rest of the world, yes. But I also fear, even while I hope for it, the fall of the empire. Will it be led by a loss of economic power? Won't it matter, when global corporate forces are increasingly running everything anyway?
I just heard someone yell "off the platform, everybody!" just before Dubya started the oath. Wonder if that earlier booming voice during the song was not of protest but of "security."
He is worse than Reagan. Things are much worse than the Reagan years, though they got this ball rolling.
Please get your work done soon, water meter dude, so I can get back to the office and away from this nightmare.
I am home while the second water meter dude freezes the incoming line as part of his attempt to get my water back on; the first water meter dude assured me no current meter readers would be losing their jobs, but that job just won't be there any more. No more flirting with the meter reader; alas.
Unfortunately, being home has allowed me to tune in to coverage of the inauguration. Early on Peter Jennings cited a picture of Bush with a NYC firefighter as having been from 9/11. Is it the official ABC position to make that mistake? Are we going to forget, in the mass media, where he was and wasn't that day?
As I live longer in this country I really do appreciate its (supposed) ideals more and more, but I am in fear for their future degree of realization, and I am horrified to realize that, by sheer virtue of our power, we are the greatest threat to ---hey, some heckler just was heard in the middle of this song! I'm sure the poor sucker is face down on the ground already, being handcuffed. Wish I coulda heard what he was saying.
We're the greatest threat to much of the rest of the world, yes. But I also fear, even while I hope for it, the fall of the empire. Will it be led by a loss of economic power? Won't it matter, when global corporate forces are increasingly running everything anyway?
I just heard someone yell "off the platform, everybody!" just before Dubya started the oath. Wonder if that earlier booming voice during the song was not of protest but of "security."
He is worse than Reagan. Things are much worse than the Reagan years, though they got this ball rolling.
Please get your work done soon, water meter dude, so I can get back to the office and away from this nightmare.
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I can't reply. Not to that.
Date: Jan. 21st, 2005 04:26 pm (UTC)Call it a domestic-policy riff:
"Children are our future. Let's protect and educate them."
"Prisoners are often maltreated. Let's improve their lot."
"Drug addiction can ruin lives. Let's ameliorate that."
"Oh, terrorists and gays? Out of luck. Sorry."
Seriously. Not only does he spout empty buzzword rhetoric at every opportunity, but I defy anyone to call their lives better since he came into office. Anyone.
Re: I can't reply. Not to that.
Date: Jan. 21st, 2005 05:32 pm (UTC)I just had a mass e-mail from a "woo-woo" kind of crazy-wisdom-spiritual friend who was in attendance, with old commune pals, at the inaugural protests. She feels she was meant to be there to try to uphold a higher vibration of unity and the beauty in everyone, in the face of the polarization vibration in the air. But she wrote, "I truely don't understand why people voted for him, and from that place i'm curious." I started to write back "Self interest!!" & go on, but I think it may be pointless with this particular woman.
I should say, I do love your pithy summations. 'Specially that last one.