Trying to get my head around it

Since nobody reads this blog it is freeing to know that I am not required to be concerned about critiques or sounding like the idiot some village lost.  I can be my own village idiot, but that is as far as it goes.

Some questions are now arising in my pea brain now that I have sobered up from the total high of the 2012 Election outcome.  These questions have always been around, it's true.  They are not new. Questions such as:  Why do they call social safety net programs "Entitlement"?  Is that careful word-crafting to create the illusion that recipients want something for nothing?  They are social safety nets, plain and simple.

God, what would America look like without social safety nets?  Definitely, She would not be as socially stable as She is today.  We would have a much larger class of people in dire need.  People in medical crisis, people with no hope ... where would they in order to survive?  

And yet, as the House Republicans gird their loins to protect the super-wealthy tax breaks I cannot get my head around why the tax benefits to the super wealthy are not called "Entitlement" Programs.  These "creators" or "makers" create jobs alright ... just not here in the USofA.  THEN, after they have shipped off the jobs of American workers, they hide their huge profits offshore.  They use every resource the law offers to protect them from contributing to America's stability and prosperity for all, but resent paying their percentage.

Just can't get my head around it ...

The Third Day After "The Rip Tide" (or when the most diverse possible coalition of Americans stood up and said ENOUGH!)

Maya Angelou wrote on Facebook today:  "I was grateful to see President Obama’s victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!"

I agree deeply and completely. In my mind this election turned out to be about long neglected and demonized social issues, not business and the economy.  It turned out that we who voted for Obama were the rip-tide that swept away the oppressive power base of the extreme right wing.  

Rip Tide?  You don't see a rip tide until it is too late.  One thinks they are in calm safe waters until the strong undercurrent of the rip tide drags one out to sea.  That is what happened to the GOP. The beauty is that WE never knew how strong and united a coalition that we were.  Against all hope (if you watched the polls and pundits) we voted anyway, encouraged voters being suppressed to "hold the line" through Twitter and Facebook and stood up for all of us.  Divergent yet United.  And until the Night of Novemeber 6, 2012 never realizing how many of us there were.  I am in total awe.