The Age of the Moderate is Over

 

I’ve pretty much stop listening to the news. Never really watched it besides the PBSNewsHour anyway. Since March, since the question how are you doing now only causes existential dread, I’ve been off NPR. The two sides of the debate of how we got here, why people support Donnie Rump, or the evil that is Mitch the drip, has no place in a public forum. All of it is very clear and logical, it is racism – the pinnacle of ism, where all other isms flow from and too.

 

This morning NPR reported that security officials missed the insurrection by white supremist because they just didn’t believe this violent crowd directed by Rumpy would actual be violent. Huh, why is that? Why did they so readily believe that peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters would turn violent? Racism 101. Instead of calling it what it is NPR reported that it was a simple bias error, a blind spot if you will. No I won’t. This is despicable and dangerous reporting. This disavows the deep, violent racism in these officers (over-seers), in law, in American democracy.

 

Even before alt right, it was just the right, including most moderate lefts, and much of the left at that that held up and continues to hold up imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchal values (thank you bell hooks). The alt-right are not necessarily radical, as logical. If your society preaches these values, they are simply following them to the logical conclusion. Why doesn’t this happen to everybody then. I hope that it is critical thinking, I hope that love is prevailing, I hope that 10 commandments etched on our hearts is enough of a compass to bypass man made ideas of power. We must be extreme in our love. I may not like you, but I love you.

 

Maybe we spend too much time liking and not loving. Too much time on the surface and not enough time with the core. Too much time wanting to be liked and not enough time loving ourselves. And since I am breathing and you are breathing and we are still breathing Caesar’s last gasp – to love ourselves is to love existence completely. This love requires action and is painful. This love requires to call out imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchal values as anti-love, anti-existence, anti-you and me.