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In reply to the discussion: Obama is furious with us, and he's right to be [View all]Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)the daily death and maiming of America by guns and racism, the result being now over a milllion gun deaths during just the past 6 administrations. I am not making that up! A million....plus the maimed, the injured, the emotionally and mentally wounded, the ripping apart of social safety, not to mention.
Any other nation would declare a national emergency but apparently only things like two deaths due to Ebola - and mass ignorance - or a brown boy with a scary clock, or highly distorted videos made with an agenda and somehow spun into a national financial crisis, meets the definition.
To me there is one word that explains and defines this not at all unique kind of misplaced and displaced fear....racism. Racism as it has ever been with the results as they they ever where.....a sick society.
A word I think encapsulates and, I think, is synonymous with - denial, lies, hate, ignorance and general mental instability.
How am I wrong?
Congress is in session. Anything short of pitchforks and torches in front of the building until the Deniers of the GOP are made to swallow some of their own manufactured lies and fear will be dissapointing as well.
While you are at it save some of the righteous anger and torchlight parade for some of the occupants of Rockefeller Square and Madison Avenue.