This stuff may be boring...

We may have won the election, but we will never ever win the fight - We as a group are not angry enough, not hateful enough, and not vile enough. We as a group try to think causes through rather than blindly throw ourselves behind the leadership. We as a group stop to pick up the wounded rather than use the healthy as a shield towards our own hedonistic and monetary desires. We as a group try to rationalize an argument rather than attempt to be the loudest voice in the room. And because of these things, we as a group will get stomped on, trampled on, run over, left to starve, and eventually discarded.

It is not the other group’s fault. They do what is human nature - exploit their enemy’s weakness. They know that they can instill the fear of us in those less learned and we will do little, if anything, to combat it. They know that if they try, they can easily drown out our rational discussions with accusations that our intent is to harm others. And we stand back and let them. We think that rational heads will eventually prevail. We think that people will realize that we only want everyone to have the simplest of human rights. IN. THE. RICHEST. FUCKING. COUNTRY. IN. THE. WORLD.

It is about time we realized that we are wrong. Rationalization won’t win us anything. Discussion won’t win us anything. Humans are driven by basic instincts and the most basic of those instincts is fear. Fear is what has kept our species alive. Fear has served us well and we are not about to turn our back on that. The other guys know this and they use it to their advantage. And although we may know this, we pretend that as a species with higher order cognition, we can trump the fear with discussion. It is about time we accept the fact that we cannot.

I write this because I am angry. I am angry at myself and the rest of us. We will stand by and let healthcare slip out of our grasp. We will stand by and allow other’s to irrationally fear our President talking to children about the importance of an education. We will stand by and watch our country break under the weight of polarization. And we will do nothing - nothing of value - to stop it.

We will write letters and write blog posts (as I have done here) and then we will say we tried our best. But really, we have tried so little. We are not fighters - not like they are. And for that, maybe we don’t deserve to win. I used to say that I was disgusted with how, as a country, we held ourselves with the last President - running ripshod over the rest of the world. But I think I am more disgusted with us now - failing to stay standing for what we believe in. We have the President that we want, we have the congress that we want, we have the senate that we want. And we still cannot win any of the fights.

Maybe it is true - the meek shall inherit the earth. But we won’t keep it for very long.