Yes they are. So too the 150 or so congressional staffers who walked out and gathered in front of the Capitol a few weeks ago. a very rare display of morality and courage in DC, which is a scorched moral desert.
It gives me some hope that perhaps after we've stuffed these genocide enablers into wood-chippers or have them dance the "Spandau Ballet" at the end of a noose that there's some good souls left to pick up the pieces in DC, those humble and moral staffers.
It is very hard to believe that the highest offices in the land are directly enabling and funding a genocide. Until I pause for a moment and realize it’s not hard to believe at all...
Yes. One of he things that has challenged me personally is I am old enough to remember Vietnam and all the other horrible things the US govt/military has done around the world and while I felt it was wrong and would speak up or try to bring change with a vote (completely futile) I must say, I didn't really get what was happening on a deep heart and gut level.
The images out of Gaza have stripped away from me any scrap of denial or numbness to what we do ... how this country murders and maims, starves and cripples the innocents of the world. I have been appalled and sickened by what we are doing now in Gaza. The mask of any bit of legitimacy of the American empire has been stripped away.
I think you could draw a cartoon of those White House staffers speaking out against genocide wearing capes like superheroes. They are.
Yes they are. So too the 150 or so congressional staffers who walked out and gathered in front of the Capitol a few weeks ago. a very rare display of morality and courage in DC, which is a scorched moral desert.
It gives me some hope that perhaps after we've stuffed these genocide enablers into wood-chippers or have them dance the "Spandau Ballet" at the end of a noose that there's some good souls left to pick up the pieces in DC, those humble and moral staffers.
It is very hard to believe that the highest offices in the land are directly enabling and funding a genocide. Until I pause for a moment and realize it’s not hard to believe at all...
Yes. One of he things that has challenged me personally is I am old enough to remember Vietnam and all the other horrible things the US govt/military has done around the world and while I felt it was wrong and would speak up or try to bring change with a vote (completely futile) I must say, I didn't really get what was happening on a deep heart and gut level.
The images out of Gaza have stripped away from me any scrap of denial or numbness to what we do ... how this country murders and maims, starves and cripples the innocents of the world. I have been appalled and sickened by what we are doing now in Gaza. The mask of any bit of legitimacy of the American empire has been stripped away.