I had the most disturbing thought today.
Before I share it, let me start with its genesis.
JFK and MLK
It’s been months since I rewatched the 1991 JFK film. I first saw it around the time it came out. I was in high school… it would have been a family movie night. I remember how uncomfortable I felt afterwards - as a bright, logical student there was enough to cause me to question the official record. As the child of parents who lived through the real thing, who did not question, and lived a normal, mainstream life, giving the movie true consideration was just too far afield. I spun in cognitive dissonance for a day or two, then life went on.
This time I felt more curiosity than conflict, and found it convincing and far less controversial to consider. At some point afterwards my 19 year old daughter made a comment that pretty much everyone in her generation thinks that the US government played a role in JFK’s assassination. In the months after this second, decades-later viewing, I mentioned to a few people that I had recently rewatched the movie. I got similarly nonchalant comments about our government’s assumed guilt.
How can the idea that our standing government could have orchestrated the assassination of its OWN leader be met with such little emotion? I continue to find this deeply perplexing.
Then, a couple weeks ago, I watched Selma. If one government-sponsored murder wasn’t enough to generate a serious national discussion, how about two? Such is the effectiveness of postponing admission of guilt. Will covid crimes be acknowledged when we have moved on so far that we receive the truth with a slight, unremarkable flinch not unlike the hammer-to-knee reflex test of our childhood checkups?
Newsom DeSantis debate
I did not plan to watch it, but my hubs started the replay and despite walking away in disgust the moment Newsom began talking, I got pulled back in. There is so much I could say about it. But staying on topic, what stuck with me and fed today’s musing was Newsom’s statement about not running for President next year, due to his loyal support of Biden and Harris. It seems pretty clear he is preparing for the election. Under what circumstances could he keep his pledge and still be the frontrunner?
Heightened risk of terrorism
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/us/counterterrorism-informants-us-threats/index.html
I just heard about this. Apparently we are at higher than normal risk of terrorist events on US soil, as we head into the 2023 Holiday season.
Side note: how many of the old Christmas specials involve the worst, unthinkable nightmare of children around the world, the cancellation of Christmas? Then we actually did cancel Christmas, several years in a row, without apology or necessity. Huh.
Biden corruption update
As shared in today’s C&C
the truth is becoming harder to hide.
All of this led me to turn to my husband and ask if he would bet against Biden ceasing to exist just in time for Newsom to step forward and run?
It’s been done before.
It would solve the corruption problem - and the electability problem.
With the additional bonuses of the:
Ability to claim that talk of corruption allegations are in poor taste, letting any broader implications and impacts go unexamined
Opportunity to blame domestic terrorists, justifying further restrictions on free speech, as we head into election season
Oy. I cannot seem to let go of the thought, so here I am writing it.
Let this be the beginning of my foray into fictional writing, not an uncanny prediction of dark events to come!
Who would stop such a plot when we know the sheeple have, up until this point, been incapable of doing so? Tis nobler in the minds of men to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? Who would 'be' the one or ones to oppose a sinister plot today? If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
Thanks for subbing me and now I get to read you and Rocket, in the same post. I'm in complete agreement with your scenario and have voiced it elsewhere. BTW I'm down the coast from you in Santa Cruz. Do you know Sane Fransciscan? I think you'd like her!