Come Together

[McCamy Taylor]

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

The Beatles

Listen closely now. Hear that voice? It's the voice of self loathing and despair. Brought to you as a public service by Fox News, it's been playing over and over like a broken record until we hardly notice it anymore. It says:

How’s it going in Democratic Land tonight? Gays hating on Blacks? Blacks fed up with Gays? Women not getting the respect they deserve? Men sick of hearing the Ladies bitch? Teachers overpaid? Immigrants got your job? Muslims lurking in the shadows? Man in the wheelchair, he in your way?

Granny smoking weed for her glaucoma makes us all look bad. Guy with the union job is why you work for minimum wage. Christians have doomed the country. Atheists have damned the country. Jews own the country. Everyone lock and load! This circular firing squad is now in session.



So, what exactly are The Stakes? No madman with his finger on the red button ready to blow us to kingdom come. Nothing so simple as a little girl picking daisies. Something slouches towards Bethlehem, but it’s not the second coming. “Mere anarchy?” Don’t make me laugh.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. Yeats

We’ve got jack booted thuggery in Kentucky. We’ve got suitcases full of cash. Some guy in the Kingdom of Bahrain thinks he knows what is best for this country. Al Reynolds, Tea Party Republican says black men choose drugs over college 4 to 1. Glenn Beck didn’t think he could hate victims any faster than he hated the victims of 9-11---until Hurricane Katrina swept in from the Gulf. Laura Schlessinger says Matthew Shepherd would still be alive “if he had simply gone home with his friends instead of thinking he was gonna get a little."

Too tired to vote this year? Too mad at the man in the White House? Got more important things to do? Don’t worry. These new guys will make it so you never have to vote again. Yippee! Pain free Democracy. Except it won’t be democratic and it won’t be free. The pain part---yeah, that I can believe.

Something slouches towards Bethlehem, dressed in a three piece suit, carrying a brief case in one hand and an iphone in the other. One like unto a son of Satan, wrist gird in gold Rolex, hair slicked back, feet stuffed into $800 Prada shoes, his voice a sibilant hiss that fans the fires licking at the edges of the U.S. Constitution---

We must all hang together or we shall most assuredly all hang separately.
American Founders

[nofurylike]

1. K&R. gasp ... amazing ... thank you so, McCamy Taylor ! nt

[grantcart]

2. It really is just that simple.

[Axrendale]

3. Amazing

I applaud you sir. You have hit the nail on the head.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Come Together was intended as a campaign song

Tim Leary for President.
Thanks for mentioning the hate and intolerance of the heterosexual community. A good reminder that we can never, ever again vote for forces of division and inequality.

[txlibdem]

5. It is Mission Accomplished: we are all hating/fighting each other and not the filthy rich

Divide and Conquer, folks, mission accomplished. I applaud you, sir, for adding your voice to the growing number of us who has put all the little pieces together to find the truth of our time.

Remember, if we all stop fighting each other, if we stop mistrusting and hating each other, we will realize that we've had one common enemy all along: the wealthy bastards who take and take and take and leave the rest of us scrapping and salivating over the crumbs on the floor.

It's a bittersweet symphony: that's Life.
Try to make ends meet: you're a slave to money, then you die.
-- The Verve

[HughBeaumont]

7. HE-LOOOOOOOOOOO!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

This is what I've been saying all along. The real terrorists of this country wear $3000 suits.

[txlibdem]

8. And they get pardons for any and all their crimes... ... n/t

[felix_numinous]

6. Beautiful

this is why I wish our culture had more celebrations and festivals--to reaffirm connectivity and inclusiveness, just to remind ourselves what is most important. This is what the warmongers hate, for us to all be having a simple good time, sharing our food and song and wine.....