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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTorture. Spying on Congress. Crashing the economy. Meh.
I think I need to back away from DU (and all media + facespace) for awhile.
The government (ostensibly in Democratic hands at the moment) does not respect its own laws.
Huge, heinous crimes are waved off in a folksy manner. Citizens are arrested, beaten, choked out, have money confiscated etc. for: protesting, letting their kids walk to the park, videotaping "farmers" cruelly abusing your future dinner - or whatever else bullshit accusations the police and ALEC can cook up.
Fake the intel for a fucking war and you get a medal of freedom.
Show UP and get a Peace Prize.
Pay Congress and get a free pass while making asymmetrical war on ghetto Muslims.
So disappointed. So over it.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)The Low Road
What can they do to you?
Whatever they want..
They can set you up, bust you,
they can break your fingers,
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
cant walk, cant remember.
they can take away your children,
wall up your lover;
they can do anything you cant stop them doing.
How can you stop them?
Alone you can fight, you can refuse.
You can take whatever revenge you can
But they roll right over you.
But two people fighting back to back
can cut through a mob
a snake-dancing fire
can break a cordon,
termites can bring down a mansion
Two people can keep each other sane
can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation
a cell, a wedge.
With four you can play games
and start a collective.
With six you can rent a whole house
have pie for dinner with no seconds
and make your own music.
Thirteen makes a circle,
a hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity
and your own newsletter;
ten thousand community
and your own papers;
a hundred thousand,
a network of communities;
a million our own world.
It goes one at a time.
It starts when you care to act.
It starts when you do it again
after they say no.
It starts when you say we
and know who you mean;
and each day you mean
one more.
- Marge Piercy
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)much needed
just feels like one imaginary step forward to 5 steps back
grasswire
(50,130 posts)You're not alone in how you feel.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)It revives me, too.