I don’t know if I’m apathetic or I just don’t have the will to care anymore. Every once in a while I get so frustrated with our media, our political system, US voters’ short memories and the party of rich white elitists trying to keep everyone in the poor house that I actually write something on this blog. But it’s getting more and more rare. I just don’t have the fight anymore. Regardless of the changes that Americans wanted in 2008, the rich guys still won, took back power and nothing changed at all. Corporations are still in charge and people are still unemployed and miserable. Rich people and corporations are still raking in record profits while wages remain stagnant, benefits are cut and less and less employers are offering health care. It’s as if it would have made no difference if McCain had won.
I don’t even care anymore. I tried to pull off the Obama for America magnet I put on my car three years ago. Half of it is stuck on my care, probably melted into it, and it will take a razor blade and a hair dryer to get it off (trust me). That magnet had more sticking power than the optimism we all felt when we finally shed Bush and thought we’d finally put some people in office that would take care of the middle class. Here we are, same shit, different day. I just don’t have the will anymore. No, OFA, you won’t get my money this time. No, CYD, you won’t get my tabling time this year. No, DNC, I don’t give a shit. I gave a shit before and you couldn’t grow a spine to back up the things you said we’d change, together, for our future and the future of this country. Even my favorite outspoken liberal, Anthony Wiener, turned out to be nothing more than an arrogant prick (with pictures to prove it).
So what to do with this blog? I don’t know yet. I could change the topics and talk about other things, but I have other blogs for that. I could post my thoughts on a news story every once in awhile that strikes my interest, but I find myself avoiding all mainstream media news these days. I just get disgusted. We’ll see what happens over the next few months. Something could ignite my fire and I could be at it again. Or, like the hope we felt on January 20, 2009, it could just peter out and lay smoldering until it finally all turns to ash. We’ll just have to see.
