Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Train wreck

Waiting for the election is kind of like standing there seeing a train wreck is going to occur and not being able to do anything about it. I see that terrible consequences that will accrue from the Dems' loss, but the fact that we are still the country that is so blind to race and gender that it denies its blatent racism and sexism and the contradictions in its own major documents (ie: a country that declares on one hand that it believes in equality, yet holds slaves; one that says and means that all "men" --read WHITE males of a certain class--are born equal) keeps the engineer on course. Perhaps that engineer of our collective fates is like the one who evidently steered the Amtrak train in Chatsworth straight into the path of a freight train because he was texting train buffs?
If what seems to be inevitable happens, there are going to be some pretty angry people in this country. Maybe that anger will accomplish what an election cannot? I hope it doesn't overturn the whole train.

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