I was grinding through the gears of two jobs while sprinting the academic gauntlet full-time back in the sixties. Meanwhile, irony danced on the campus lawns—rich kids, their pockets lined by the fortunes of ancestors or the neat stacks of trust fund checks, were the ones waving banners and shouting down the establishment. I knew folks w…
I was grinding through the gears of two jobs while sprinting the academic gauntlet full-time back in the sixties. Meanwhile, irony danced on the campus lawns—rich kids, their pockets lined by the fortunes of ancestors or the neat stacks of trust fund checks, were the ones waving banners and shouting down the establishment. I knew folks who shipped off to Vietnam out of sheer volunteer spirit; three of them returned only to be draped in flags, silent as the grave.
These clowns, they don't grasp the chaos they're stirring, the relentless damage being carved into the backbone of this nation. Caught in the crossfire between Trump’s brigade and a wave of protesters, we're in the squeeze and there's no light, no exit sign in this twisted tunnel of national frenzy.
You are so right about the "chaos they're stirring," which is the cloak the right wing agents of chaos slip into when they want to fan the flames that only an authoritarian can douse with his big anti-democracy hose. I understand the NYC police commissioner is insistent that the majority of the protestors rounded up were NOT students at Columbia. So where'd they come from and why and under whose supervision? And all those matching tents? I hope the FBI has some of their best undercover folks checking out what's going on in the same way they did the West Coast Satanists back in the day. (One of them told me that at one point their were more undercover agents attending the satanic worship sessions than their were satanists.)
I was grinding through the gears of two jobs while sprinting the academic gauntlet full-time back in the sixties. Meanwhile, irony danced on the campus lawns—rich kids, their pockets lined by the fortunes of ancestors or the neat stacks of trust fund checks, were the ones waving banners and shouting down the establishment. I knew folks who shipped off to Vietnam out of sheer volunteer spirit; three of them returned only to be draped in flags, silent as the grave.
These clowns, they don't grasp the chaos they're stirring, the relentless damage being carved into the backbone of this nation. Caught in the crossfire between Trump’s brigade and a wave of protesters, we're in the squeeze and there's no light, no exit sign in this twisted tunnel of national frenzy.
You are so right about the "chaos they're stirring," which is the cloak the right wing agents of chaos slip into when they want to fan the flames that only an authoritarian can douse with his big anti-democracy hose. I understand the NYC police commissioner is insistent that the majority of the protestors rounded up were NOT students at Columbia. So where'd they come from and why and under whose supervision? And all those matching tents? I hope the FBI has some of their best undercover folks checking out what's going on in the same way they did the West Coast Satanists back in the day. (One of them told me that at one point their were more undercover agents attending the satanic worship sessions than their were satanists.)
Crazy, glad I missed all that