The Era of Hatred

I did not live through the Great Depression.  I was an infant when McCarthy reaped his evil havoc.  My mother lived through both.  She passed away last November, but until the end was as sharp as a tack.  I asked her on many occasions "what was worse - the McCarthy era or now".  She did not hesitate with an empaphtic NOW.

In November, 2010, the same month my mother died,  the Tea Party managed a coup of Republican Americans and so-called "independents", including all of those that see themselves as moderate.  The coup was aided and abetted by the apathy of too many Democratic Americans.  They  failed to vote.  The result was not just a takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives, but dozens of states.  We are seeing now some of the most morally bankrupt and anti-democratic legislation being proposed and enacted across this land.  All of it is laden with bizarre, almost surrealistic removal of rights and freedoms for poor, working and middle class Americans.    

The tsunami of hatred against ordinary people is drowning the moral character of our nation. We are in peril of losing our national soul.  The amoral standard appears to be the new normal for those who identify with conservative ideology.   I fear that the only discourse these unfortunate people understand is one that mirrors their own.  I hope it does not come to that.  Now, I must focus on beauty lest I fall prey to hatred.