Reply #238: maybe

[Two Americas]

But so what?

It is easy enough to call all who are being vigilant "petty" and then dismiss them.

If the things people are saying seem "petty" to you, then make the case. Merely implying that what they are saying might be petty, so therefore we are precluded from even considering that they might be being vigilant, is not an argument, it is merely a talking point.

"Petty" would be the last word I would ever use in talking about the crisis the country faces, about the various things that critics have been discussing - before, during, and now after the election, the same way, about the same things.

Perhaps some here so desperately want to believe that because Obama has been elected that all of the crushing issues - torture, illegal war, spying on the citizens, the shredding of the Bill of Rights and the rise of a police state, the collapsing economy, jobs disappearing and wages declining - will now go away, or need not be faced or worried about, that they refuse to hear anything that spoils that hopeful and happy mindset. So they attack anyone bringing any bad news that spoils their illusion.

People are traumatized and desperately need to feel, to believe that things are going to be OK, and are fighting to protect that feeling of hope as though their life depended upon it.

It reminds me of dealing with a roomful of drunks - people are so crazed by all of this that you can't talk to them.


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