Hello All. A friend sent me a wonderful blog that has gone viral: Stonekettle Station: Negotiating With Terrorists. It is very good and said a lot of things I was thinking, so of course I have linked to it below.
Stonekettle Station: Negotiating With Terrorists
I found this essay wonderful for many reasons. I'll share two: 1.) Author calls people on their fear and hatred of Obama; and 2.) Gives voice to others when thoughtful and polite.
I'll give you an example of 1.).
"Oh, I get it. I understand that frightened people become more and more irrational, especially when they are allowed, encouraged, to feed incestuously on each other’s fear. And I get that they are afraid. I can see it in their faces, I can hear it in their voices. I get that they’re afraid of change. I get that they’re afraid of the future. I get that they’re afraid of the past. And I get that they’re afraid of the present. I get that they’re afraid of losing power and privilege and prestige. I get that they’re afraid of their capricious and childishly vengeful god. I get that they’re afraid of different races and different cultures and different accents and different religions and different sexual orientations and different viewpoints and different politics. I get it, they’ve screamed their small fears over and over and only a dead man could possibly miss it.
I get that they are so consumed with rage and so filled with naked hate and so programmed with their diseased ideology that it poisons their minds like a computer chip submerged in acid.
I get that they are so utterly terrified of the world that they piss themselves in abject fear at the mere thought of going to the grocery store without a goddamned gun stuck in their pants like an extra oversized prick.
More than anything, I get that they are afraid of Barack Obama, everything about him, every single thing about the president terrifies them. Obama stalks their feverish nightmares and he is the very symbol of their shameful impotence – so much so that they’ve written him into their precious bible, in a starring role as the devil, the destroyer of worlds.
I get it.
And I get that it’s an uncontrollable mindless tic, a raging xenophobia, a political PTSD, and they know that it’s wrong but they can’t seem to do anything about it.
It’s just how their crippled minds work."
Yes. I for one often think that no matter what Obama does his detractors will scream in hysteria. *sigh* Reminds me how not to behave.
Now for 2.) When a brother Marine wrote to him politely expressing his POV, Stonekettle posted his reply. You can read it here: Negotiating With Terrorists: The Counterpoint.
I think I have found a new blog to follow.
Stonekettle Station: Negotiating With Terrorists
I found this essay wonderful for many reasons. I'll share two: 1.) Author calls people on their fear and hatred of Obama; and 2.) Gives voice to others when thoughtful and polite.
I'll give you an example of 1.).
"Oh, I get it. I understand that frightened people become more and more irrational, especially when they are allowed, encouraged, to feed incestuously on each other’s fear. And I get that they are afraid. I can see it in their faces, I can hear it in their voices. I get that they’re afraid of change. I get that they’re afraid of the future. I get that they’re afraid of the past. And I get that they’re afraid of the present. I get that they’re afraid of losing power and privilege and prestige. I get that they’re afraid of their capricious and childishly vengeful god. I get that they’re afraid of different races and different cultures and different accents and different religions and different sexual orientations and different viewpoints and different politics. I get it, they’ve screamed their small fears over and over and only a dead man could possibly miss it.
I get that they are so consumed with rage and so filled with naked hate and so programmed with their diseased ideology that it poisons their minds like a computer chip submerged in acid.
I get that they are so utterly terrified of the world that they piss themselves in abject fear at the mere thought of going to the grocery store without a goddamned gun stuck in their pants like an extra oversized prick.
More than anything, I get that they are afraid of Barack Obama, everything about him, every single thing about the president terrifies them. Obama stalks their feverish nightmares and he is the very symbol of their shameful impotence – so much so that they’ve written him into their precious bible, in a starring role as the devil, the destroyer of worlds.
I get it.
And I get that it’s an uncontrollable mindless tic, a raging xenophobia, a political PTSD, and they know that it’s wrong but they can’t seem to do anything about it.
It’s just how their crippled minds work."
Yes. I for one often think that no matter what Obama does his detractors will scream in hysteria. *sigh* Reminds me how not to behave.
Now for 2.) When a brother Marine wrote to him politely expressing his POV, Stonekettle posted his reply. You can read it here: Negotiating With Terrorists: The Counterpoint.
I think I have found a new blog to follow.
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