No MocktheRock today. Another hiatus. Sorry, folks, but Im just not feeling it right now. If anything, its we the people who need mocking. I would have used the graphic to announce this, but my picture was going to wind up being an inverted flag. And while Im sure most of you damn well understand enough of flag protocol to get the message in the spirit intended, someone would have stooped to reporting an imagined abuse. Thom Yorke was right; some have really not been paying attention. And now the non-privileged will pay the price. To those who are cheering for the winner while having the nerve to preach at me to calm down and be a good sport and not be so negative: I will do the best I can to provide a calm explanation of where Im coming from. Yes, I advocated severely for a side, though I am not officially registered to that party. And yes, I am taking this extremely badly, but not out of loyalty to a team. I made careful and deliberate choices of conscience based not on propaganda, but on truthful details concerning a candidates behavior, words and threatening promises. One in particular has pretty much promised to be a deliberate threat to my religious freedom. The notion of coexisting with love and tolerance is precisely what I want and have been trying to pursue and help create, without the name-calling that is actually far more characteristic of those who dont share my values. Today it genuinely appears to me that a whole bunch of my neighbors, in the state and in the country, have sent a message that my kind, and various other others, are not to be valued or accepted. I am worried that I might at any moment be fired and thrown out on the street to support someone elses personal vision of religious freedom, (though of course that wont be listed as the reason) and then blamed for not having income, perhaps even arrested for something bogus as diversity becomes recriminalized. I am terrified for friends who may become targets of emboldened hate crimes perceived to be implicitly blessed by role models. And Im saddened because I thought we had made such progress toward an accepting, loving society in the last couple of years, and now all it appears that all the people in charge cant wait to put a stop to that mischief, with the apparent blessing of everyone around me. Really not a good time to start with me about my demeanor.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:35:29 +0000
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