Reply #83: Thank You! [View All]

[Mme. Defarge]

So, here I am -- a "boomer" -- and our republic could be lost on my watch! I am the daughter of a man who was a member of "the greatest generation", a poor Kansas farmer who grew up in The Great Depression and lived through the Battle of the Bulge. Therefore, I am. My mother was Betty "the riveter."

How can this be happening? Last night, after a couple of glasses of wine, I bared my soul to my husband of 35 years. We are 15 months away from retirement and are both just trying to cope with the day-to-day confusion/hysteria that dominates American workplaces, until the day of our liberation as wage slaves.

I confessed to him that although I go to work every day and do the best that I can in an environment that is becoming increasingly more irrational and chaotic, it's sometimes hard to focus when I think about what is really happening in/to my own country. How can you possibly take seriously any sort of mundane commercial activity, not to mention all of the petty political jockeying and "street-fighting" that goes on in the workplace, WHEN YOUR OWN COUNTRY -- WHICH HAS BEEN A BEACON OF LIBERTY TO THE WORLD SINCE THE LATE 18TH CENTURY -- IS BECOMING A FASCIST DICTATORSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, my husband of 35 years went into a total melt-down. He just couldn't handle it. Although he acknowledged that Bush was another Hitler, he pointed out that we could still change things by voting. I simply didn't have the heart to burst his bubble.