Uvalde

May 25, 2022

     We are all being held hostage by men who mask their mediocrity behind body armor. Egged on by the stochastic terrorists of Fox and 4chan, they avenge their petty grievances with the bodies of our children.  In a country so inured to violence that it treats mass murders like catastrophic weather events — tragic, but caused by a constellation of forces we are powerless to control—each murderer tries to break through the noise by upping the carnage and the senselessness, hoping to dominate the news cycle for more than one day.

     Mute with rage and grief, we wonder what kind of country offers its children, its elderly and its pious up for slaughter again and again?  What kind of country elevates those who are nihilistic and stupid, whose sole qualification for office is that they ban books that tell the truth and believe the Big Lie?  We ask ourselves how can a country that pledges  to be “indivisible…with liberty and justice for all” not only tolerate but encourage some of us to treat the rest of us like enemies to be exterminated instead of fellow human beings?

     We are a country with more guns than people that lacks the decency to be ashamed that the rest of the world views us as madmen hellbent on our own extinction.  Steve Kerr spoke for all of us when he asked, choking back tears, “When are we going to do something?!”  When indeed?  Or are we just waiting, like sheep, until the slaughter comes for us?