I Am Not OK With This

No, I am not OK with a Senator who threatens a Supreme Court Justice.  Or any judge.

And I am not OK with a Senator sitting on the valid nomination of a fully qualified jurist to the Supreme Court.

And I am not OK with continuing to look away as social maladapts bring weapons designed to kill enemy soldiers into a school and kill little kids. 

And I am not OK with blaming the police officer who was assigned to the school to stop such shootings when he doesn’t.

And I am not OK with active shooter drills.

And I am not OK with the schadenfreude culture infecting our society.

And I am not OK with having to go to multiple stores to find a package of toilet paper for sale.

And I am not OK with the level of disrespect accepted in our society that defends the Speaker of the House deliberately tearing up her copy of the President’s State of the Union Address in full view of TV cameras.

And I am not OK with the level of indifference in our society that accepts a politician who brags about grabbing women by their genitals without permission, because “He speaks his mind.”

And I am not OK with the cap on the amount of state and local taxes I can deduct from my income on my federal tax return while rich fucks and corporations can deduct the cost of a personal jet.

And I am not OK with proven lies continuing to survive in social discourse because people are too lazy and too undisciplined and too fog-brained for the truth.  

And I am not OK with “alternative facts.”

And I am not OK with USC having such a poor recruiting year.

And I am not OK with science deniers. Or with people who call them “science deniers” and refuse to look for their good qualities.

And I am not OK with my country abandoning allies and promoting dictators and looking the other way when medieval princes have journalists killed.

And I am not OK with having to buy a FastPass to go on the good rides at Disneyland without waiting an hour on line each time.

And I am not OK with a President who referred to himself as “the Chosen One” on the same day he said Jews who vote Democrat are disloyal.

And I am not OK with awarding a racist, hate-mongering drug abuser a prestigious national award.

And I am not OK with the no-pitch intentional walk.

And I am not OK with having to watch FoxNews once a week to maintain and refresh my insight into how the other half thinks.

And I am not OK with having to think about installing a grab bar in my shower in case I lose my balance.

And I am not OK with being branded a traitor if I don’t say, “Thank you for your service” and wave the flag as the tanks roll by.

And I am not OK with people saying The Beatles are overrated.

And I am not OK with stock market performance being a shibboleth for economic well-being.

And I am not OK with billionaires buying elections through SuperPACS with limited transparency.

And I am not OK with leaders who stoke hatred for “those who are not like us.”

And I am not OK with single issue politics and purity tests.

And I am not OK with supporters of one candidate refusing to vote for the winner of the prelims if their candidate isn’t the winner.

And I am not OK with unborn children being prevented from being born.

And I am not OK with women being told what they can and cannot do with their bodies.

And I am not OK with being unable to reconcile those last two.