Can’t We All Just Get Along? Uh, no.
It sounds great. Harmony, unity, the lion lying down with the lamb, but in the harsh face of humanity, it can never happen. Lions eat lambs, unity only lives within set groups and harmony is a temporary condition, sweet but fleeting and only reminisced.
Cynical, you say, and I agree, it is cynical. But cynicism in and of itself is a much maligned philosophy in that a good dose of cynicism can save you a long bout of victimization, because there are plenty of people more than willing to sell you the yard where the grass is greener, even if it belongs to your neighbor.
There is a lot of guilt in harmony and unity, at least the brand that the politicians who have usurped the ideals of Americanism and turned them into talking points and town hall meeting one liners sell. If you don’t believe, really believe, then you can be easily transmogrified into any number of readymade boogey people (there’s a PC shout out to all you feminists) replete with white sheet, silver spoon and thousand dollar suit. Read any newspaper or listen to any talking head and it will be made plain to you that if you are affluent, conservative and white you can’t possibly care about the plight of the poor, you couldn’t possibly relate to the man on the corner with the cardboard sign, you are by the mere fact of your station guilty.
There is a remedy though. Use one side of your mouth to condemn people like yourself while eating the cake with the other. Have fundraisers, start movements, show up at every natural disaster or protest march and stick your mug in front of a camera while in a loud voice decrying the callousness and insensitivity of the haves over the have nots, then quickly board your private jet and speed away to the next cause de jour. You can even purchase your dignity in installments, or rather offsets, and eventually, after enough sycophantic praise convinces you that aren’t really that shallow, you can look at yourself in the mirror without blanching. Meanwhile, the poor are still poor, the jobless are still on welfare and the country is still going to Socialist Hell in a hand basket, with the man you elected sitting in the seat of power.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t be comparing Obama to Satan. But the facts are there for everyone to see. We were warned and still we wouldn’t listen. We were still mesmerized by the prestidigitation, still cowed by the guilt that the leftists use to try and make us ashamed of being American, still unwilling to be seen as being conservative because of the stigma that the media heaps upon anything right of center and so, because we were either disgusted into complacency or because we really believed in hope and change, we swallowed the bait hook line and sinker. Now here we are dangling on the line, out of the water and gasping for air and our future is a cornmeal over coat and a hot frying pan full of spilled crude.
Cynical? You’re damned skippy. But let’s not allow the fact that the scales have been removed from our eyes to cause us to shut them and hope it all goes away, because that’s just what they expect us to do. Instead, let’s use our cynicism as a catalyst for our brand of harmony and unity, a brand that actually means something and is not born aloft by rhetoric and carpet bagger snake oil pitches. Let’s do our due diligence and make sure we know who we are voting for before we elect more buffoons and caricatures; let’s look beyond the stage props and special effects and examine the high definition reality of what is right in front of our own faces and then act. Otherwise we deserve everything we get.
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