Rich people march on Washington every day. – I.F. Stone
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I spend huge portions of my day just with this feeling of being hit in the chest by watching the utter blitheness and disregard, and casualness, and sociopathic casualness, about the vast losses.
They’re not far from me. Family members of our staff. A neighbor of ours. People I know who’ve gotten very sick.
It’s not some abstract thing. It’s a tangible thing, very real, and, to watch this utter disregard for it by some people, from the President on down, it is so shocking to me, and horrifying, and enraging, and almost insanity-inducing.
I keep thinking about if you went around on TV or in New York City after 9/11, and you were showing up at house parties, or on interviews, being, like, “Uh, guys, you know sixty thousand people here die from the flu. I’m not quite sure what the big deal is here.”
You would have sounded like a sociopath, and you probably would have gotten punched in the face. You certainly would have gotten fired from TV. It’s not like any of that would have been the correct response, but it would have been sociopathic.
What sort of maniac would you be?
Chris Hayes said that in The New Yorker.
Full disclosure: I watch Chris Hayes and I subscribe to The New Yorker. Imagine you’re surprised.
I am calling for a Million Mask March on Washington, D.C.
Put a smile back on Lincoln’s face. Then a mask.
Go unarmed. Bring your pussy hats and military medals. Gave all of mine away.
If everybody who claimed they were actually at Woodstock was to show up, think we’d make it.
Can’t decide yet if I should take mass transit. Or even attend myself. Haven’t been out of the house in over two months.
Hope I see you there.