The Awakening?

What difference a few days make, eh?  Suddenly the airways are full of full-throated Americans who are pissed off at what is happening.  (It must have been my blog that rattled their cages and made them awaken!)

I admit I watch a lot of MSNBC to try to make all of this a bit more palatable, but I am seeing a kind of unexpected jubilation on the faces of the MSNBC commentators as they seem to be surprised by the unexpected virulence of the town hall reactions that the current Congressmen are getting from their constituents.  Frankly it does give one an inkling of hope.....

The crowds that are jamming the town meetings are a mixture of Dems and Repubs, without the absolute need to identify themselves.  They suddenly seem to be just Americans who are looking at the state of our government and saying to themselves, Holy Shit, what is going on??  Finally, the patient shows signs of life!

It is unclear what happens from  here, because of course the Trumpians and all the suck-upian Republicans are blaming all this demonstration on the 'liberal activists'.  But our newly awakened citizens know better.  There are lots of reports of many new people who are considering running for office.  As I have said for years, that is the only way there will be real change in our country.  We all need to get involved from the ground up....from school boards to county commissions, to state legislatures.  It is time to grab a hold of our democracy and shake all the leeches off it, douse them with lighter fluid and get rid of them with a match!  Maybe that is what will happen.

This new renaissance of spirit in the body politic is encouraging.  It is almost possible to imagine the feeling of the colonists as they gathered in secretive groups to talk and plan on how to rid the land of the hated English monarchists in 1776.  Can you imagine what that scenario would have been like if everyone had an Iphone and Twitter?

Of course it is way too early to have real hope that we will be able to rid ourselves of the Republican political scourge that has blighted America for the last 40 years, but if we nourish these voices and continue to expose the hypocrisy and self serving arrogance of people like Jason Chaffetz, Mitch McConnell and all the too many parasites that find those kind of people acceptable, perhaps there is a light at the end of the tunnel of despair we are trying to escape.