Thank you, lacey

Fear as an insulator/Insulate through fear?

According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, fear is defined as:

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Apprehension of impending...doom? (A heart attack?)

Many of our fellow Citizens are afraid.

They are fearful of the intentions, beliefs, values, plans, and the size of a presidential candidate's cock.

That's right.

The color of a man's skin is, openly, a reason to question someone with enough credentials to receive the nomination of one of the two major political parties in this country. The idea, the audacity, that someone who has been elected to two political offices, won four elections, and has been publicly running for the office of President of the United States of America for two years is a complete unknown, a SUPER enigma to the american people is unconscionable. Only through insulation to information from outside sources about topics not of the daily routine could this have happened anywhere in this country, in this, the 21st Century. The 21st. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death almost 50 years old. The Civil War, staring down the barrel of 150 years. The signing of the Declaration of Independence, stating specifically,

AND I QUOTE,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

That all men are created equal.

All men.

Equal.

That fun little document, 232 years old.

But where does this come from? We are the pinnacle of achievement in the world. Both historically and contemporarily. We are successful over-throwers of big, mean overlords. You can come to this country, sign a couple sheets of paper, and sell dildos out of a box. How great is that?

But now we are content to halt our progressions. Civil liberties are at their peak. Expression is as open as should be warranted. Subsets of people are who they are and where they should be.

I had hoped that racism and bigotry in this country were minorities, both vocal and silent. Understood, but not to be fucked with. Perhaps, sadly, we have settled.

Joe-Beats-His-Wife

This hatred of intellectual curiosity is fascinating. Since when did the world's trailblazers become so content? We are perfectly willing to allow mass amounts of media to create judgements and ideologies for us? This nation's psyche is built on people who completely abandoned everything to seek out an entirely new world. New everything. The genealogy routes back to people, in every subset, whose questioning of the world around them was so deep they questioned which ground they should live on. They were willing to leave behind everything they knew nothing about and travel thousands of miles to live somewhere else they knew even less about. But now there even exists a mainstream, and to travel outside it is... bad? Is... Disrespectful? Is... un-American? I would argue it is more American than blind consumerism, cronyism, bigotry, or, perhaps principally, ignorance.

Hope as Change
My principal hope is not embedded in Barack's political leanings, not in his leadership skills, nor in his vitality. I hope that he can bring about social change. Help heal this country's deep divisions. We have a very dark past, one that still separates us by pigment. Barack has shown a system of values that hold high the indiviual, the person, as valuable. Hold valuable that person and embrace differences of culture and background. The Alaskan governor does not. Not in speech or character or background does she value the human being past her own beliefs. We all have families, have hopes, have fears. It is time to embrace those fears.