(Just returned from Colorado, where the weather and the politics are more humane. Did you know there are states where they have services to support the disadvantaged, and park land is more important than drilling and mining, and nobody cares who you love and they respect individual rights? Anyway, here I am back in the blast furnace of a Texas summer wondering if the heat and the anger of my beloved backwards state will ever abate. Hope you enjoy my writing and thinking, and will subscribe and share to get some more folks over close to my soapbox. - JM)
I am reminded of something from the Founder John Adams who abhorred slavery (but supported only "gradual" abolition) and understood the hypocrisy of the young nation's championing of the idea that "All men are created equal" "REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG, IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET, THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE." We weekly seem bent on proving his prediction true
Ah, if only escape were as simple as Townes had envisioned.
It's a pretty great place, has always held a big piece of my heart.
If it doesn't, we deserve what we get, Ed.
Might even transcend that descriptive.
I am reminded of something from the Founder John Adams who abhorred slavery (but supported only "gradual" abolition) and understood the hypocrisy of the young nation's championing of the idea that "All men are created equal" "REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG, IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET, THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE." We weekly seem bent on proving his prediction true
My hope is that the political actions of SCOTUS will drive Democrats to vote.
Terrifying.
Where exactly do we go from here, you ask? I'm thinking Colorado.
We are engaged in an existential fight for the soul of the nation, and for our very lives.