this kinda greed

I don’t know what I’m go­ing to do from this point. But I’m gonna get on my soap box and say this much:

Vot­ing De­mo­c­rat won’t be enough to save us from this. Vot­ing won’t be enough to save us from this. Has it set in yet? This is the of­fi­cial death of checks and bal­ances in this country.

I’m gonna re­peat: THIS IS THE OF­FI­CIAL DEATH OF CHECKS AND BAL­ANCES IN THIS COUNTRY.

Maybe we can re­vive it. Maybe there’s hope for re­form. But de­mo­c­ra­t­ic re­form is slow. De­mo­c­ra­t­ic re­form plays by the rules while the oth­er side cheats bloody mur­der. De­mo­c­ra­t­ic re­form is its own kind of greed, got­ta be in of­fice for 25 years mak­ing $250k a year be­cause moral re­form is just so gosh darned slow kin­da greed.

If you are scared right now, you need to turn to the cra­zi­est vo­cal­ist most an­noy­ing com­mu­nist moth­er­fuck­er in your life right now. That ass­hole that drove you CRAZY talk­ing about how Oba­ma was far from per­fect, that he was ac­tu­al­ly a war ma­chine. That ob­nox­ious so­cial­ist, Marx­ist, an­ar­chist, what­ev­er the fuck that won’t ever shut the fuck up about how com­mu­nist South Amer­i­ca only takes the sec­ond through fifth house from the rich motherfuckers.

That virtue sig­nal­ing, self right­eous moth­er­fuck­er with their use­less de­gree in phi­los­o­phy. That pre­ten­tious nit has been most like­ly or­ga­niz­ing and protest­ing and study­ing the rapid shift to­ward eq­ui­ty and jus­tice in South Amer­i­ca for TEN YEARS. And if they haven’t, they know who is. And that per­son who has been on the ground this whole time, THEY need the sup­port of the mass­es. THEY tried to pre­vent this and we didn’t listen.

I also want to add – for my own sake as well as every­one else’s – that sup­port roles are not only okay but im­por­tant! I read a thread on Twit­ter last week (thanks Bet­ty) about a woman who runs an an­tifa pet spa. Sounds dumb, right? But in re­al­i­ty she hous­es an­i­mals for hours or days so oth­ers can do the dan­ger­ous work she’s phys­i­cal­ly un­able to. And in war, there are 10 sup­port roles for every 1 foot soldier.

There’s a part of me that wants to scrape my last nick­els to­geth­er and go to DC and throw my body down on the line. I have noth­ing to lose, right? Ex­cept I do. I have a love­ly part­ner and fam­i­ly who wants me here and alive and a cat who needs to nap on my chest from time to time and sto­ries of vary­ing im­por­tance to tell and most im­por­tant­ly the sense for the first time in my life that I ex­ist for me and not to sac­ri­fice my­self for every­one else. 

So I’m not gonna ar­gue any re­pub­li­can who thinks I’m a sore los­er. I’m not gonna ar­gue any cen­tris who wants to talk about the ben­e­fits of slow re­form. I’m not right now an aca­d­e­m­ic seek­ing di­a­logue. I’m fuckin He­lenus, I know Cas­san­dra sees the down­fall of moth­er fuckin Troy, and I am beg­ging you to LIS­TEN TO THE GOD DAMN AN­NOY­ING PRE­TEN­TIOUS FUCKIN CAS­SAN­DRA IN YOUR LIFE.

I’m tak­ing care of my­self to­day. Maybe to­mor­row I’ll have answers.
 
 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2018 Mel­ony Ppenosyne.

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