Can we be reborn?

If the old world of what was once a new order is dying but there is a vacuum despite almost a decade of advance warning, is there any possibility from the wreckage? Has the extent of wreckage been overblown with a less than 50% popular vote? Is it ashes? Is everything to be forgotten, and if we forget then how do we not make the same mistakes again? Is America just a repeating loop of mistakes that we are trying to fight against that fate? What if all this is what is? American voters and non voters mostly failing because their politicians can offer so little yet no imagination is awakened in a tenable and workable way. If Bernie can get easily side stepped then it must look to its own weaknesses but no one wants to hear that. 'If only we could have been saved.' One man cannot have saved all our troubles though one man has exacerbated and made it all a hundred times worse ironically. It's thousand times easier to smash than repair. We are also trapped with an idle population who care very little about midterms and special elections accept Republicans. The politicians care bare minimum if you could even refer to it as care and it's people obedient that yeah they don't care either. Mirroring the apathy and bringing home that unhappiness and dysfunction to their own lives. This malaise the population are all drowning in and we can't offer the answer to 'well what can get better really?' cause who can when the people in power don't care enough just send out distress signals tweets. What is to be reborn in the recent years is we have never truly begun in the last few decades of my lifetime?

Somehow we survive

We are in a new age, for now. We are all going to get what's coming. Masses rescinding in advance. I feel a violent whiplash from Jan. 6th 4 yrs ago to now. This is all on Biden, Weekend at Biden's team and the Democrats but I'd like to take a moment to curse out the Dem primary voters of 2020 who saw Biden on display for over a year and said 'this is the man who can save us, we want to go back to sleep' and look what has been wrought. If he had never been VP Biden would have never even broke 5% in the primaries.  

What keeps me up is not what Trump and the GOP have planned, because that has been on my mind the past few years since 2021 (yes seriously), but the lack of mainstream resistance and on the ground in comparison to years prior. It's like an abandoned mine town. Now one could claim the mainstream resistance wasn't built on a solid foundation other than American institutions and exceptionalism is great "America is already great!" which isn't wrong but I'd prefer it to this. A new grotesqueness is the pop culture acceptance of him. To Carrie Underwood and Snoop Dogg and Jeff Bezos and Oscar DeLa Renta and Dior, etc rolling their tongues out and wagging. And sure we shouldn't be looking to figures like this for guidance and I don't but this acceptance that was unthinkable eight years ago is chilling. Like the 1930s, as they say history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes. I guess the Hays Code is coming back with Gibson, Stallone, and Voight leading the charge. Back to reactionary white hetro American masculine classics of The Golden Age of Hollywood. The GOP ghouls in Indiana are putting up a bill to make divorce harder and states are trying to get abortion as a death penalty punishment. These other groups and orgs who weren't mainstream resistance libs where are they? They have been hollowed out the past few years and many people have seem to have exited.

Trump is the luckiest motherfucker that ever lived and Biden is the biggest loser on earth. 

What an unspeakable tragedy we are being strapped in and lowered into, a new reverse Operation Warp Speed.

Though I do want to pause outside of myself and I am thankful even if it's temporary for the relief of the ceasefire for the Palestinians. 

Free them all.

I think of this poem "Somehow We Survive" by Dennis Brutus a survivor of South African apartheid often since I came across it around 7 years ago. We will need these words to move through what comes.

Somehow we survive
More terrible than any beast
that can be tamed or bribed
the iron monster of the world ingests me in its grinding maw:

agile as ballet-dancer
fragile as butterfly
I eggdance with nimble wariness
-stave off my fated splintering

Somehow we survive
and tenderness, frustrated, does not wither
investigating searchlights rake
our naked unprotected contours;
over our heads the monolithic decalogue

of fascist prohibition glowers
and teeters for the catastrophic fall;
boots club the peeling door.
But somehow we survive severance,
deprivation, loss.

Patrols uncoil along the asphalt dark
hissing their menace to our lives,
most cruel, all our land is scarred with terror,
rendered unlovely and lovable;
sundered are we and all our passionate surrender
but somehow tenderness survives.

"One day the Sadness Will End"

 

One of the saddest things was Lynch's life was upended by Covid and he talked about how with his condition he had to isolate because he knew it could kill him yet the crisis of all the living world, climate change, and trying to escape it ended up killing him. Though no one with any platform will say this because of the conspiracy rage that has taken over social media also propped up by bots and moved along by the algorithms.

Your life may have ended but all who loved your work will never be the same and that is the beauty and tragedy of it all. Forever altered yet at times psychologically halted and haunted by the knowledge that one day this impermanence will catch up to us also. In your work there is a line asking in fear what if love is not enough, yet we are here and love exists somewhere along with the sadness, beginnings, and endings we will all leave behind one day. Even when it seems hopeless and forever out of bounds, one day in some form, in some place love returns even in the greatest depths of the vortex. I’m sure there was so much sadness but I hope love was enough or that one day it will be. R.I.P

 

 Climate change is the economy stupid. 

Ok I am tired of so many 'we lost, we are lost politically, oh where now do we proceed and bow to, maybe people love the right' takes and people writing twilight pieces and preaching swan songs  This is politics, there is no crying in politics. Get back to work. Destiny is a thousand different choices and possibilities with no guarantees and no one thing a person or group can firmly hold onto and believe in with such certainty of the ways of the political winds. You don't need to reinvent the wheel, get your ass off and work. Do not doom us with Harris as the nominee in the next election please. 

The anniversary of the insurrection that got about 6-8 people connected directly to the day directly killed doesn't matter darkly to most of the public. He's coming back in because in America it doesn't matter a mass casualty event of sacrifice for stupidity, protecting power and celebrity, and revenge. Who doesn't hate it here to some degree? Only fools.

A new and terrible thing politically has come to my attention to infuriate and greatly disturb me. Proving further on how unprepared people are for this moment. There are rumors of Sanders being persuaded possibly to vote for RFK Jr. I believe the rumors are true because a couple weeks ago Bernie made a bill Make America Healthy Again and that has been a RFK Jr. slogan for over a year. I shuddered seeing it and realizing also many progressives didn't know that. 

Thinking it was some cool trolling...😣

Bernie....I will metaphorically launch you into the sun old man if you dare do this, confirming him or even looking like you just were about to. Any long term influence if this happens for Bernie to help the future should be shunned and I'm serious, though I know that won't happen. People will accept the nightmare because they have rescinded to the disaster of public health crisis for the last four years that has taken a toll societally. Not only in form of physical illness and disability, but psychological stress, economic downturn and reactionary politics. And what's interesting and twisted is Bernie has been trying to get through a Long Covid bill, so he honestly has some care and concern about this challenge, even if the rest of left mainstream voices is radio silence. Yet if you do believe the challenge of Covid how could you not recognize the danger of RFK? 

Bernie says he hates the brain worm's anti vax views but you are pandering and making the brain worm sex pest palpable. Why would you confirm the public health menace anti vax freak, who said Covid precautions were like surviving the Holocaust? What is going on with everyone who is usually reasonable losing their minds? He'll be hanging around anyway confirmed or not but at least you won't disgrace your legacy.

I'm a never lonely substance

Oh great now with the shit show rising already in the new year, Trump has been given a humungous gift. An opportunity for pseudo martial law (it will not be declared that). The men who killed themselves for whatever point they were making, whatever meaningless political screed thanks for the fucking timing. 

Ironically the bird flu looming over us that Biden's Weekend at Biden's team ignored to maintain power left for Trump also to fuck up. Biden as a possible stop gap, as someone who had no idea how to handle the dark ascending was so predictable. Remember the Republicans having a magical epiphany he would claim in his run? The worse was maybe his 'This is America, I'm more optimistic than ever, there is nothing we can't do' schtick though he seemed to believe in that. What a waste of a legacy and power. But that's the run and ruin of empires. The cruel and/or neglectful selfish men and rulers they breed. The eventual wasteland they leave. The price we didn't even get to try and fairly bargain our lives and well-being for.