| Boomer |
10-28-2021 11:42 AM |
There is certainly enough hate to go around — definitely let out from under the rocks and validated during these past few years. We see it all the time, all around us.
It is tearing up friendships and families and neighborhoods and communities. I have never in my boomer years seen “Us v. Them” like this.
Amerca’s citizens are being used as pawns in the name of greed and power. Dysinformation thrives and the programmed-in buzzwords can be spotted immediately.
The need for attention and the need to be a part of something bigger are rooted deeply in some and they find our country’s current hateful ways to be a path to those things.
I am offended when I see our flag desecrated with a face or a slogan emblazoned across the Stars and Stripes in the name of some kind of warped, pseudo-patriotism. (How can those who do this not know it is desecration of the flag. Our flag should be flying high and proud, not being used to divide and destroy.)
Actually, I am more than offended, I am deeply concerned for our children and grandchildren. We boomers came in with a bang to a country full promise and blessedly full of pride in having defeated a fascist, a monster. And now, here we are. Will the boomers go out with a whimper as Democracy fails, under attack by its own?
The man in question in the paper is certainly over the top. But I cannot help but picture the woman, at the pool, with her crude saying on her shirt, sending her signal to others like her. (* Of course, no one deserves to be stalked. And sure — she can wear whatever she wants to wear to try to get the attention she so desperately must need. This situation is an ugly mess, all around.)
But about those women with their slogans — those women are everywhere. Sometimes they show up in social situations, having been invited by a friend of a friend. I know of one who recently “invaded” a lunch — having been invited by someone to a large group of women, most of whom she had never met.
This brassy creature plopped her purse on the table (ladies do not do that) and then started braying and honking on and on about her hatred for those who do not think like she does. Finally, a woman next to her quietly told her, “We do not act like that.” The brassy, crass, loud woman had assumed. . .
There is a thread running here where the hatred of Baldwin is so intense that the death of an innocent woman seems to be forgotten by those who look like they are reveling in so much joy at Baldwin’s mess that they can forget the death — in what shows between the lines as a, “Hey, whatever it takes to ruin one of ‘em,” attitude.
I have never before had to worry about our country. I am a believer in common sense and decency and thinking things through and responsibility and finding solutions — and plain old good manners. (Remember those?) We are not seeing much of any of those things anymore. Adults are behaving in ways — doing things that I would think they tried to teach their children not to do — or be.
Like Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Boomer
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