I am beginning to reflect upon my life as another birthday approaches
I awakened at 2:30 this morning and found myself watching MSNOW reruns and drinking coffee, and I began to consider a context which I had not ever explored. To wit: what events occurred which markedly changed my viewpoint “overnight”?
The first was awakening early - again - on a November morning in 1960, turning on the tv and watching the network correspondents still tabulating the votes from the Presidential election the day before. As a seven year-old it was an Aha! experience which initiated my interest in politics -it made me understand that the farm report and cartoons were less important than what was going on in America. This is quite a realization for a child. I had awakened because I had sensed the upset and nervousness in the house t by e night before, watching my parents react to the election returns. That anxiety woke me out of a sound sleep -I recall the moment distinctly.
Next was the Cuban missile Crisis wherein my mother and father sat down with me and told me in no uncertain terms that our lives and our way of life was under threat and if they told me to do something quickly, to do it immediately and without wasting time or pausing to discuss it, which was something I was prone to do. For the first time in my life I saw the intensity in their faces and the fear, sensing it the way an animal senses fear in an individual who comes upon it. To this day, my stomach drops when I recall this incident.
Then the assassinations. Watching the news coverage of the JFK death convinced me that I was being lied to. So much of the information was conflicting and many individuals interviewed were clearly disingenuous. This was a stunning moment from which grew my “avocation” of being an assassination buff, initiated by the publication of Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgment. My cynicism emanates from this moment in time.
And then 9/11. Enough said.
But nothing, nothing has affected me as much as the observation of a mentally deficient, mentally ill, malignant narcissist and pathological liar attempting to decimate the very foundation of this Nation. For me it is the equivalent of placing a toddler at the controls of a fully-loaded 747 and telling him to land the plane. I knew we were to have a catastrophe and if we are to survive, it will only be by the thinnest of margins.
We are watching him mentally and physically decompensate, the rate of such is increasing, and that, my dear friends, is why I can’t sleep. I have come full-circle.
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Go down the list. Immigrants, not those precious South African "victims" of "White Genocide" are not considered white.
Italian immigrants were considered "non-white"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html (not paywalled for me)
This so-called "privilege" of color, nationalism, gender, religion, and so on, is the curse of mankind.
And the wealthy and power-hungry use that "privilege" to rob, rape and murder, while pulling the wool.
And cover up.
how you feel.
Thanks for the Birthday wishes. 