Dear you:
Swamped by normalcy (working my hilarious retail gig, online essay tutoring, maintaining beach-house-beach-yard-beach-life), I emerge daily to hear the news. Yes, that would be election drama. We are so close to November 8. This will be a Hillary Clinton win. And here we go again . . . another happy, historical day (a female as POTUS) will be fucked up by those guys (and gals). Please "enjoy" this excerpt from a Boston Globe article:
"If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it,” Dan Bowman, a 50-year-old contractor, said of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. “We’re going to have a revolution and take them out of office if that’s what it takes. There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. But that’s what it’s going to take. . . . I would do whatever I can for my country.”
He then placed a Trump mask on his face and posed for pictures."
I was frozen with horror and rage until I got to the mask moment.
Does this dude imagine he is part of a V for Vendetta movement? "V" is opposed to everything Trump.
Yet these dudes and dudettes see themselves as rebels, freedom fighters, ready to lock up the MAJORITY of American citizens who will elect Clinton.
During the Reagan years, I remember being baffled by many things. One was the fact that he was not (to me) a great communicator. Vague phrasing and big smiles. However, not being INSANE, I realized the MAJORITY of my brothers and sisters had voted him into office. And I had to think about that. And respect that. And move the hell on. That is what liberals do. (See the Gore v. Bush situation too.)
The contractor featured in the Globe piece is INSANE. And not in the good way, the cool and swervy Seal's song "Crazy" way.
Who would blatantly try to incite DE-VOLUTION? Donald. I wonder what Trump really thinks about the man in the mask? He thinks he's a tool, a fan, a customer for his future Trump Network (his real motivation for running for POTUS). But after November 8, neither Donald nor Hillary actually have to deal with the masked contractor. I do. You do. And it won't be pretty. "They" (yes, I used the awful, vague pronoun) aren't pretty and since it is now very correct to be so fallacious, I'll say it again. "They" aren't pretty. And they all should be required to:
1. Sleep in beautifying mud masks.
2. Memorize the amazing poem "We Wear the Mask".
3. Research the author and context of the above poem.
4. Spend one hour a day reading (can they?) substantive "media" journalism.
5. Participate in fitness boot camps. Exercise = Endorphins. Endophins = Sanity (See the great El Woods in Legally Blonde.)
So, enjoy history being made on 11/08/2016. And remember, "we" outnumber "them".
XO
Your Joyce
