Next up - Tuesday, June 21 - January 6th Select Committee hearing #4. I hear from good sources that there should be some big surprises.
Even if our rushed, immediate gratification lifestyles have caused us to be frustrated when a brave, brilliant man speaks slowly enough for his profound words to be printed in the history books as he speaks, we should all be watching this.
I've been in a super-reflective stage lately, partly due to
traveling ba
ck in time for a writing project and partly due to the opposite -
thinking about the future. My future, the future of people who aren't paying
attention or acting, and the big question of will there be a future. If I
weren't stalled in two big writing projects with a couple others on back
burners, I've thought about writing BOOMER WARNING in which I do things exactly
like what follows here.
The night of the first walk on the moon, I had THINGS TO DO. Danette's stepsister was in town, and we were all going to do make-overs and maybe -- just maybe -- learn how to be almost as beautiful as we all thought she was. Important shit to do. And my dad, totally uncharacteristically put his foot down (gently, of course) and said he thought I needed to stay home and watch this major event before I got together with my friends.
I can't imagine how stupid I would have felt later if I had not stayed home and watched. Especially when I got to meet Neil Armstrong later. I might have been too embarrassed to even take that opportunity. Then, I would have two reasons to feel stupid.
Now, I can't imagine how I would feel if I hadn't read, watched, discussed, pondered, tried to have some input/action for all of the major political events since then. I was *there* for the Nixon impeachment, all of the SCOTUS replacement hearings, the Clinton impeachment, both trump impeachments, the three real stolen elections and now the big lie about the steal that didn't happen - and halfway through the most important (by far) hearing yet - the one that could make or break democracy and lead to the death of humanity on this planet.
I look around at people who are too busy working, too busy having fun, too depressed, too happy, too lazy, too brainwashed, too whatever excuse they think rationalizes their refusal to be involved. And I think about how badly I wanted to leave this country in 2000 because to me it was dead the moment the SCOTUS (s)elected an unqualified man who didn't get the most vote to play (p)resident. The writing was on the wall, and I really wanted out. But the daughter who wasn't ready had children and how would I ever face my grandchildren if I hadn't done everything I possibly could to save their country for them?
In 2000, I totally dedicated my life to saving my country for my grandchildren. Totally. I spent time with those kids, but it wasn’t baking cookies and making paper flowers. It was political events, making posters, discussing current events, watching speeches on television . . . To be honest, I’m not sure today whether they appreciate or resent that. I hope it’s some of both. I’m sorry for the resentment part but I’m grateful that they are informed, thinking, caring, intelligent, informed, voting adults with a country still standing even if it’s on life-support.
2016 came. An even worse, more unqualified loser who didn't get the most votes, and who we knew had Russian help and lots of cheating to get there was made (p)resident and I wanted fucking OUT OUT OUT. But I had a new grandchild, born weeks before that election and the kids weren't ready to leave so I started over. Tired, frustrated, sad, angrier and more defeated than I had ever been in my life. Too disabled to be out there doing all I wanted to do but still I started over, doing what I could. Because, how would I ever face that last granddaughter if I hadn't do all I could do to save her country.
I ask everyone who isn't fully involved and working as hard as you can to consider this. HOW will you look your grandchildren in the eye when they are living in a Christo-fascist dictatorship, or another Syria, or worse? Because believing that isn't what happens if we don't get every Republican out of office from the top down to school board (especially school board, maybe) is not dealing in reality. Believing that that is an improvement is a death sentence for the planet.
Or, do you think it won't matter how your grandchildren suffer if you aren't still around to witness their pain?
Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander gives URGENT MESSAGE for Jan 6Hearings
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