The nation is depressed and in pain. It's obvious. Just go to www.rxlist.com and look up the most prescribed drugs for the past five years. Antidepressants and pain killers are in the top five always, usually number one or two.
I never really thought much of this until this election cycle. As a talk show host on the West Coast, I hear opinions every day. The problem? I no longer want to be what the other side calls "fair" or "civil." Call in with talking points....thank you for your call. Call in and won't answer a specific question when asked, particularly about the moose-eating, wolf-killing former mayor of a small town with two years governing experience of a state with the population of places like Barstow or Bakersfield. Of course no one can answer any questions of substance about her or her and Mr. McCain's campaign because there is no substance.
Well, that goes against the grain of my industry; an industry where people are supposed to be able to express themselves and their opinions. The problem? I'm tired of their opinions and the support for war criminals, opportunists, corrupt regimes, Senators like McCain who completely change their stances just to get elected and career-driven power hogs (pigs?) whose sole purpose is the furtherance of their Christian Supremacy ideology.
In other words, I'm pissed off and I can no longer tolerate, nor pretend, not to be, on or off air. The question? Why aren't you? Why isn't every member of the media? Why is there no outrage in the media, or on the campaign trail?
This morning my friend Arianna wrote about righteous anger, indignation, that the only national emotion at this point should be rage, fury, contempt for what these people have done to our country. The facts come out every day about how our Empire is actually falling, not in theory, but the United States will no longer be the super power, the world leader. England used to basically rule the world. But its military became stretched, it started borrowing, its economy took a nose dive and it became a debtor nation. England is no longer seen as the most influential country in the world. It's bastard stepchild is, and it appears the step child has not learned a think from its parent's mistakes.
The time for civility is over, and yes, I mean for our candidates as well. Obama and Biden better start showing me they are as passionate and upset about our country failing as I am. Being polite is over rated when the very life's blood of your country is pumping out by the gallon and no one seems to care.
Our founding fathers were not civil on the floor of the congress, and many an opponent has been shouted down. It happens every day in Parliaments across the land. But at a time when we need that passion and anger instilled in our very people, if you express it, you are out of line, you are being angry, non inclusive. They hurl insults or names, but classify one of those people as something other than what is deemed "polite" and you're evil.
No, evil is sitting by and not being infuriated.
So why aren't we? All I can think of is that it's the drugs. We have to be medicated in to complacency, or so it seems.
I suffered through depression and grief. I know the symptoms and the country is in it. But when you come back from it, you realize what you missed, and there's an urgency, a fiercenss, a need to catch up and make things right.
On this day, 9/11 seven years ago, our nation was thrown in to grief and shock, and now we are suffering Post Traumatic Stress disorder. Literally, over 70,000 from in and around Ground Zero are, and what makes you or I think that phenomenon just extends to there? The television and radio brought Ground Zero in to our homes, we were all there. And our response? Medicate ourselves instead of dealing.
Well, time to kick the antidepressants. Time to work it out and yes, get angry. Or else we'll wake up from our haze either speaking Chinese or in a country that resembles a corporate theocracy more than a democratic Republic.
Yes, I may sound a little crazy on radio or in person. I may ramble on in my writings like a mad man at times. Who could stay completely sane as the nation they love is being destroyed and many of the population are demonstrating that they are too ignorant to be governed effectively.
Wake up. Wise up. And get angry. Before it's too late.