Covid-19 can kill you. No one anywhere, even the deepest of QAnon conspiracy theorists has suggested otherwise. Then why are all critically thinking intelligent free minded people continually portrayed as lunatic brainwashed rednecks, racists, and low IQ street rats? Ya know, the same anybody and everybody who is now on AOC’s Trump Accountability List, and I’m sure will soon be on the Non-Vaccinated List.
Four years ago these people were called The Deplorables for not wanting their sons and daughters sent to war, wanting just a little more than a sliver of the working class pie, and for someone to finally speak up about opioids destroying our American Youth. Four years ago it was primarily white lower class Republicans or Converted Blue Collar Democrats that made up these Deplorables, with a few exceptions. It’s much larger now, and diverse. Trump’s voting counts raised in every single major minority category, including sexual identity. The one category it dropped, white men. Funny, I thought he was, and the whole MAGA movement was a dog whistle for White Supremacy? Damn, it must be that tricky multi-racial, gay, tranny, Latino, Black-White Supremacy.
The mainstream narrative is so oppressively ignorant, silly, and intellectually bloated. Intellectually bloated you may ask yourself, what the hell is that? I’ll tell you. Top notch degrees, and elite achievements are surely on these people’s resumes but they unfortunately lack two very crucial elements for actual progress-- curiosity, and an open mind. Why? Is a question I have not been able to answer. I truly do not understand. I do not subscribe to the idea that there is a nefarious satanic cult at play. I think it’s more so the mainstream, and ruling class structure of ideas is such a living breathing organism that it has autonomous power beyond any one individual within it; that the very questioning of it is more akin to questioning a devout religious man on whether God exists, or not. Dogmatic followers tend to react the strongest when their beliefs are affronted.
If they shared the respectable human quality of self reflection whatsoever, they would understand these people in the streets are not violent, not racist, and are just concerned Americans about their futures, their freedoms, and their families. Instead the shared quality by our upper-class citizenry, upper class wannabes, and the powerful feel as though they have an intellectual moral obligation to be the judge, jury, and executioners for our society and culture as whole-- and they hang on every word from the likes of George Stephanopoulos, Rachel Maddow, and Stacey Abrams instead of listening to the common man with an open heart, and an open mind. But why?! I sit here and I scream internally, why?!
Close minded and brain washed, a cult of ideas. Words quite often used by The Lincoln Project types and the mainstream media. Interesting, isn’t it? The very people who project both unfortunate qualities onto most of America suffer from the very affliction they seem to be so deeply offended by.
Fear, Shame, and Covid-19. All three are diseases. All currently without a universal cure. One is physical, the other two are mental, emotional, and spiritual. A little insight to the two that are mental, emotional, and spiritual--that once they grab a hold of you, they never let go, not fully at least. The only way a human can fight against Fear and Shame once it’s a part of them is to know they always will be there, and they just need to cope with these demons forever. How sick. Don’t believe it? Think it’s hyperbolic nonsense? Talk to any elderly person who grew up during The Great Depression, and you’ll see how the fear, and shame they felt throughout those times has fueled every success and failure throughout their entire lives both personally, and professionally. The very people who are supposed to be looking out for our safety, would rather their country struggle with fear and shame for the rest of their lives out of the collective perception of safety, and security-- because of yes, an unfortunate and dangerous disease, but a disease that also carries with it a 99% survival rate. They are choosing to overly protect all of our physical health over our mental health. Dangerous, sad, and deeply concerning that it genuinely brings me to tears.
As a person who has suffered from depression because of deep personal failures in my twenties (I’m now 35-happy and healthy). I can tell you once it’s there, it is never quite gone. And, fear and shame are depression’s ugly redheaded cousins. I have no more words for the effect this is having on my mind, body, and soul like so many other free spirited, and good hearted Americans and Global Citizens. So I will just leave with you the three best words I can accurately described our collective feelings towards the ones who say the following things in the name of safety and security:
Small businesses must die.
Holidays are cancelled
Grandparents must die alone
Churches are locked up
No singing
No music
No art shows
No indoor seating
No travelling
GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Sincerely,
A M E R I C A N // M A N I A C
A M E R I C A
& T H E E N T I R E W O R L D ’S H E A R T S A N D M I N D S
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