Remember that hokey movie device where calendar pages flit
away to show the passage of time? Recently I’ve had a recurring mental image of
that same device going in reverse – pages rapidly reattaching to the calendar.
And that’s how I feel now, as if my life were going backwards
to a much earlier decade in our country. Laws and regulations are abolished so rapidly my head
swims. If the House of Representatives has its way, there will be no restraints
on making a buck when it hurts masses of other people. Dodd-Frank will be down
the tubes. Discrimination in our schools – that’s okay now. Mandatory
sentencing will be enforced! We must keep our private prisons operating at
capacity. Is a big hunk of Antarctica’s ice shelf about to break completely off
and float away like a giant ice cube? Gosh, maybe someone can make a profit on
that.
The list could go on, but I’m sick of thinking of all of the
daily insults to our common sense and the common good, I want Bernie, a true
man of the people, and a dammed smart one. When I think of his campaign, I get pissed
off all over again. Why didn’t our major newspapers and other media give him
decent coverage? The truth – and Bernie tells it – is that millions of
ordinary people are being massively ripped off by our wealthiest citizens.
All of this has made me extremely cranky and outspoken. I don’t
know what might save me, but my hope is that the Millennials will wake up,
speak up, and vote! Without their participation, all of our rights will be
lost. The calendar is rapidly flying backwards.
*Perpetually Pissed-Off.
Copyright
2017 by Shirley Domer
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