The Dangerous State of Things

I did not watch the State of the Union speech last night; instead, I will read it today, and think about it. I just could not bring myself to watch it, knowing that childish (and that's really insulting to most children) antics were planned. MTG with her balloon, for instance. For heaven's sake, decorum used to be a given with members of Congress, but that bar seems to have lowered immensely. Boebert, from CO, using Psalm 109 to publicly wish for the President to die? Women have worked far too hard and too long to gain footholds in all arenas of civic life, and this kind of brainless, mean-spirited, attention-seeking drama is not helping anyone at all. Talk about camera-hogs. 

I also did not want to hear one minute of Sarah Huckabee Sanders' voice. The ignorance she spews while pandering to a self-aggrandizing elite is impossible to digest. I did not want to go to bed angry, in short.

And I am angry. These fools are systematically undercutting any positive efforts the rest of us are trying to make. There is danger afoot, and it's not just from foreign sources. There's a bill under consideration in NH that would criminalize even having what is vaguely referred to as "obscene" materials in k-12 schools. Not just teaching it; things sitting on shelves. The definition of "obscene" is not clear, but it's whatever "they" want it to be. Seriously. Have "they" read Midsummer Night's Dream? Or Othello? Or much of anything at all in Greek mythology? Human beings, replete with their lustful human failings, run throughout all of literature. It's a dangerous world, when the idiots are making up the rules. 

I don't like the world-view that some of these self-appointed guardians of the public morality have, and I find that kind of rhetoric both scary and ignorant. I find their behavior to be obscene, in the truest sense of the word (from French and Latin, "ill omened or abominable").

So yes, I'll read the text of the speech, and I'll read some fair and reasoned response to it. At this point, what I hope for the most is for intelligent people to rise to the challenge of getting these yahoos out the door.

Be safe,

C