Americanism On Acid

When I awoke early this morning (actually late last evening) I watched a rerun of the GOP convention on YouTube - or as much of it as I could stand (I fast forwarded though a lot of it). It was the same collection of people with only slightly different faces that I had seen on the two previous evenings. One of the speakers struck me in particular, though. After I was finished I made the following posting on Facebook:

 

Some pathetic Uncle Tom Negro named Clarence Henderson addressed the GOP convention tonight, praising the Republican Party for ending slavery in the 1860s. One hundred years later, in the 1960s, a Democratic president named Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the civil and voting rights acts. Within five years time, all of the racists who had previously registered as Democrats fled that party.

 

POP QUIZ: Which party did they flee to, and which party welcomed them with open arms?

 

A lot of folks in this country are in desperate need of a long overdue history lesson.

 

The man's name was vaguely familiar to me but I could not quite place him. I proceeded to look him up on Google and was almost knocked out of my chair by what I found. Clarence Henderson is one of the surviving organizers of the original sit ins which began in February 1960 and quickly spread throughout the South. I took the post down because, in spite of his support for Donald Trump the man deserves my (and our) respect. But I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that one. Perhaps the poor man is getting dementia. He did seem a bit dotty.

Everywhere you look in America the signs of the craziness of this era is in evidence. Two nights ago, some asshole with a name that is so white it is begging to be parodied (Kyle Rittenhouse!) walked up to a group of human beings who were protesting the shooting of yet another black man - this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin. With a semi-automatic weapon in hand, he walked right by the police, one of whom told him that he was "appreciated". He was even given a bottle of water by one of them. 

Victim Anthony Huber

This Trumped-up putz then walked over to the protesters and began blasting away, killing two and seriously wounding another. The person who committed this latest atrocity on Idiot Nation is seventeen. He did  the wicked deed and ran away. He was then driven back to his home in Illinois by his dear old mommy. This was caught on video and photo. He's apparently a major supporter of Donald Trump and was photographed at one of the president's Iowa rallies in April. He probably believes that a pardon is just around the corner. Who am I to say that he is wrong? 

POP QUIZ: How long do you think a seventeen-year-old black kid would have lived had he walked in to the same scene and under the same circumstances? Take your time in answering that question

The funniest thing About the short propaganda films played periodically throughout this riot of a convention are the scenes of the riots going on all over the country at the moment, with a dark and ominous voice in the background intoning that this will be America in the age of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. It amuses me greatly to understand that not one of the geniuses who produced these spots had the wit to understand that what is being shown is the undebatable reality of America in the Age of Donald Trump and Mike Pence. It's almost touching to observe the ineptitude of the people behind this event. It really is!

The night was capped off with an event in the Rose Garden. Melania prepared for the festivities by removing fifty crabapple trees that were planted by Jackie Kennedy over a half century ago. She must have been told the historical importance and significance of those trees but she obviously didn't care. Her husband is a hideous bastard. She's a silly bitch. A good-sized crowd was packed into the area for the event. As far as I could tell, only one of them were donning a face mask. White Privilege on Parade. Perhaps they were all pre-tested. Perhaps not. Perhaps some of them were and some of them weren't. We live in such confusing times.

Did you ever get the feeling that life in 2020 America is a dark satire by Paddy Chayefsky? Yeah, me too.

 

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY




SUGGESTED VIEWING:

 

Here's a link to view Matt Gaetz' speech on August 24 at the convention. It is so unintentionally funny with it's blatant lies and distortions that it really should be seen by all.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6o91Y8oiU

 

The dude is a scream! By the way, how does a thirty-seven-year-old man have a nineteen-year-old adopted son? I was just wondering.

SUGGESTED READING:

How Matt Gaetz Used Daddy's Money
To Become Trump's Favorite Congressman
by Stephanie Mencimer

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/how-matt-gaetz-used-daddys-money-to-become-trumps-favorite-congressman/

Essential reading.