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I’m not sure what to say. I don’t know how to react to what’s been happening over the last days, weeks, months. Not to the fires in Australia or the Amazon. Not to the 50° February day I’m experiencing in my little patch of ground in New Jersey. Not to the email I got from my department supervisor notifying me (and my colleagues) to the increased homelessness and hunger we can expect in our student population this term. Not to the idea that a decorated soldier was escorted off his post today for doing nothing more than telling the truth and protecting his country. Not to the freshmen college student who screamed vitriol at me for telling him that it’s inappropriate to wear earbuds in class. Not to the lone member of his party who stood up to them all and spoke his conscious, which happened to coincide with his oath before his god, which happened to be within his first amendment rights.
And yet, the fires have largely been ignored (at least in the US media). The warm day in February will be chased by an evening of wind gusts and winter temperatures (today’s high of 59° will dip to a low of 25° with a wind chill in the upper teens). My department supervisor told me that since the vitriolic student continued to act “appropriately” after his verbal abuse, then I should essentially put up and shut up, and that was after I filed a report with the college to request the college see if the student was in any distress; for all I know he could have been one of the 700,000 people who were cut off of SNAP in December, or he could be one of the 1.5 million homeless students. Or he could be gearing up for his own version of Virginia Tech. And the talking heads on Trump T.V. (aka Fox News) are decrying the Vindmans as traitors (both of them, since Alexander Vindman and his twin brother Yevgeny were both fired and escorted from their White House posts today) along with Romney and Pelosi, Schiff, anyone who said anything “not loyal” to #IMPOTUS.
Where are we heading as a country? As a species? Are we in our final days?
I don’t like to think of this blog as political. I don’t want to ostracize any of my readers. I don’t want to offend anyone. But, then I think back to how Green and Growing began. March 4th2010 was my first post. Hard to believe almost 10 years ago…. Yeah, it was a bit ranty, but it was a critique of how close Hillary Clinton was (and probably still is) to Monsanto. Shortly after I penned that, I wrote to Mother Earth News, more than upset that while Michelle Obama was planting a fantabulous organic garden, it would be horrifically impacted should Clinton’s food safety act be adopted into law. A law President Obama showed support for.
Then for Independence Day 2010, Anthony and I shared a semi-rant about how big corporations seek to limit our freedom regarding everything from the food we eat to the water we drink.
Like the GOP TP image above, another Jim Carrey original.
I’d say to date I’ve had more critique on this blog of the Obama administration and the Clintons than the current one, who like Voldemort has remained nameless. Until now.
I can’t help but be political when posting about things like food fascism, preparedness, herbal medicine, and entheogens. To push against the machine, to try to take back control over simple things from making bread to making soda (if you choose to drink it), to refusing to prostrate myself and buy corporate bullshit (be it hair conditioner, cough syrup, or bug spray), those are all acts of subtle resistance, subtle defiance, subtle politics.
What does it mean to be political? I’m no etymologist, but to be political, doesn’t that mean to regard the people? To be involved or connected to civil or state affairs? From the Greekpolis: the citizens. Yes, city-state (my past life as a Classics major surfaces in my mind). But when speaking to people– my fellow citizens– about life choices, be they DIY or product reviews– that’s all political, right?
It’s not that I thought the Impeachment trial would end with IMPOTUS being removed from office. But, it’s the sinking, creeping, horrible feeling that we are in the final days of our great Republic. It’s the lies of the State of the Union that we’re being force-fed. We’re told the economy and job market is The Best Ever! We’re supposed to believe that an act of moral courage, not to mention observing his religious freedom on the part of Senator Romney is an act of a traitor, when his party fought for the rights of medical professionals (and others including bakers and random state pencil pushers like Kim Davis) to take full advantage of their own first amendment rights…. but only when using those rights to subvert the rights of others.
So I ask, in all honesty, where do we go from here? Can we permit this aggression to stand, man? Are we to just make our kombucha, pet our fur babies and hope there are more morels come spring?
Remember that they ignored the signs in Germany in the 1930s. Remember that the first concentration camp in Dachau was for political dissenters. Remember the Night of the Long Knives may repeat itself.
To my American readers: register to vote. Your vote counts. Never think it doesn’t. Little more than half of eligible voters actually voted in the 2016 Presidential election. The same can’t happen again. But that’s even assuming our votes will actually be counted between voter suppression and the lack of security with the actual voting machines.
To all my Republican readers (if there are any left after getting this far): remember your party is the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. You are the party that started the concept of civil liberties and environmental conservation when there were Democratic Senators (the Dixiecrats) who were standing up for deviants in white hoods. That’s not an insult to my fellow Dems, nor is it an agreement with the vicious social media allegation that the Democratic party started the KKK. It’s a reminder and a reflection. Party allegiances change. Party ideals change. If they change so much that you can’t recognize them, then leave. Change. Separate yourself from the party machine. Remember your values and your roots and your humanity.
A facebook friend (who happens to be a real-world friend if that matters at all whatsoever) posted this in her feed today. It’s old, but it’s relevant– even though it’s a commercial for a television channel. It inspired this post.
I’m not ready to give up on a country I love and I hope you aren’t either. Make sure you vote. Make sure your larder is stocked and you have your papers. Dark times are ahead but with hope, we can weather the storm.
