Came across some notes from 1971-1972. Sadly seems current. – JDW
How does one avoid sounding like a naive pink-cheeked idealist with America such as it is? Forget the rest of the world; cleanse thine own house first, to coin a phrase.
I’m sorry, but…well… it is just so very fantastically incredible to me that so many of our people starve to death while our (?) government forks over horrendously huge subsidies for farmers NOT to grow food.
Or that our national budget provides fourteen times as much money for defense as it does for education.
Or that American women spend more on cosmetics than the combined GDP’s of all of Africa’s emerging – to what? – nations.
Or that seventy-three percent of the U.S. citizenry favors immediate withdrawal from Southeast Asia, yet Tricky Sicky Dickie continues to spend $187,000.00 to kill a single Viet Cong irregular.
Or that J. Edgar Hoover just celebrated his forty-seventh anniversary as head of the FBI.
It could get worse. No, really, it could. I could mention Attorney General Mitchell. See?
It could and does, but why? No sooner do we kick one malicious fallicious sonuvabitch out of office…. For a replacement, we choose the best man supposedly.
Supposedly, because the best man, even a good one, rarely even ever gets close. Besides, these days, who’s to say even what’s good, or what’s bad, anyhow?
Chosen in a honest democratic process by an informed electorate, laugh out loud, the best man takes his oath of office and fourteen minutes later reveals his true self which is a cameleonesque inauthenticity. Bought and sold.
And we are right smack dab back up to our necks in shit again. Why?
Why? Huh? Why?
I mean, really, it is almost enough to make you quit believing in the tooth fairy.
