3/21: Hypocrites & Liars

Another tentative step toward total damnation; another jump back from self-sufficiency. The vote comes in. My stomach drops; I am numb.

I am overcome by a fleeting feeling of helplessness, and then, just… betrayal. Total betrayal. I guess I was ever the optimist, ’till the end. No, I didn’t think they would pass it. I didn’t think they had the cajones to ignore the majority of the country that employed them, the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

How much longer can we uphold that myth? How much longer can we claim to live up to our legend? You’re slipping, America.

This isn’t the end of the road. This isn’t the end of the fight. You know what this is? This is a call to war[of course, I mean of the non-violent kind, but don't think there won't be political casualties].This is proof of what we’ve known all along; that the political arrogance of these folks knows no bounds. Do they think we’re that stupid? Mommy and Daddy state needs to step in and hold our hands, tell us what to eat, what cars to buy, pad our pockets with stolen cash. I don’t need Mommy and Dad to hold my hand when I go to the doctors office, I don’t need Mommy and Daddy to tell other people how to spend their money.

I don’t want to live on an allowance the rest of my life, balancing an endless tab. Does the enormity of the numbers make you sick? And besides, I’m just dying to find out what’s in this bill. It’ll be a surprise. Like a Christmas present, right? What a joke.

They aren’t listening. Haha! Tell me something I don’t know. I wish I could camp out at the White House for as long as it takes for the Prez to look out and the window and notice me yelling and waving a sign. Could you imagine that? Hundreds and hundreds of people.  Oh, we’re here, the thousands of us. And just ’cause we’re not on your front lawn for months at a time doesn’t mean we’re not here, doesn’t mean we don’t exist. It doesn’t mean you can get away with anything, we’re gonna make sure you know that.

This is not just a healthcare “reform” bill – Which, by the way, was never ABOUT healthcare. If you still believe that, you’re a bigger fool than the Prez takes ME for.

This is a sign, a power grab.

There is no helplessness, no hopelessness now. Just determination. And deeply-rooted, passionate anger. Justified anger. Productive anger. The kind of anger that drives you to something, makes a far off goal attainable.

Are you kidding, Mister President? 215+ backstabbers, treasonous sewer rats! Spineless, yellow-bellied cowards, who didn’t have the guts to say, “We’re voting with The American People, not with the President.”

215+ men who were either naive, stupid, or decietful. Deception doesn’t look good on politicians, so why has it become uniform? Have some balls! There’s a reason we dressed you up nice in a suit and put you in that little club we call the U.S. Congress. You’re nothing but what we’ve made of you – and you’ll be nothing by the time we have our say. You’ve abused your power, and you will be gone.

Scum filth! You’ve revealed all. If you didn’t stand with us, if you twisted that knife in our back, we see you. Oh, how clearly we see you. So keep talking out of your ass, keep thinking that you’re safe, jokes in suits and ties.

We have not yet begun to fight.

39] Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,
40] Who shall take what ye would not give.
41] Did ye think to conquer the people,
42] Or that Law is stronger than life and than men’s desire to be free?
43] We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held,
44] Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!

- Padriac Pearse, “The Rebel”