Consummated Randomness

A Mad World...

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which im dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very very, mad world, mad world

Illogical world
Mad world


Here we are, as Americans, as humans, as democratic citizens...sitting quietly on the sideline of a political boxing match. We each cheer for our favorite side, our favorite fighter, color, party affiliation, platform. For some it's just about winning, for others it's all about me,me,me and who do I think is best for me, then for a silent plurality it's all about what is best for the world and the struggling conflicts that occur everyday over differences in culture, for our future generations who we want to bring to life on an earth that still has plenty of resources to give to them, our kids who will undoubtedly be paying off our debts and struggling to make a living, our aging parents who will be denied medicare because of lack of funding or will have to bear the expenses of their prescriptions because the government will no longer do it and will not regulate the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices reasonable, our homosexual grandchildren who have every right as anyone to fall in love and get married, our mentally disabled brother who needs special medical care and awareness, our sister struggling to provide for her three kids alone now because her husband was killed while serving his country in a war we were misled into, our neighbor who can no longer afford her medical insurance and was recently diagnosed with cancer, our daughter who (like many humans, has made mistakes) got pregnant and needs a safe abortion free of judgement because having a child will ruin her's and that child's future lives, our son who is going to have to register for the draft and put aside his own goals in life to fight in a war that we can not win.

Almost 57 million people in our country are truly compassionate and care about things that may or may not touch close to home. They had a vision and a belief that in our grand democracy every vote would be counted and a man who truly cares about the people of this country would be elected. A man who, despite his well-off background, gave his personal time and risked his life to fight for his country in another war we could not win, then came home and devoted the rest of his life to public service standing up for the people not strong enough to do it on their own. He rallied against injustices then and now, and even though he did not win election, he will still sit in the senate and make damned sure that other senators and this President will not abuse their power or their oath to do what's in the best interest of the American people.

As for the other 59 million people who voted...please, please find within your heart some compassion and keep in mind that it is not your position to judge people. Gay marriage will not be the end of the world, in fact, it will hardly affect you. Abortion has been legal for over two decades, and it's been occuring even longer than that, outlawing it will only bring us back to a third world state where girls are paying for dirty back-alley hack jobs or self-administered wire-hanger mutilations. Is it really worth the life of a mature adult to save the life of a bean? Is it your right to tell others what they can or cannot do to their body? Also, another thing, your religion is not everyone's religion and our forefathers came to this land to escape state sanctioned religion. Practice and believe what you want, but do not think that the government of this country should pander to you and your beliefs...it is the government of all American citizens, of which less than half are Christian. And for those of you who think you can relate more to Bush, look inside yourself deeply and ask yourself, do you really want someone as dumb as yourself to be running the greatest country in the world? That's a huge responsibility. And I say it's too large of one to be given to a man who can't even pronounce nuclear proliferation correctly.

Again, I go back to the opening of this blog and the lyrics of Gary Jules...

It's a Mad, Illogical World

posted by RPF @ 6:30 PM