A Time to Get Angry

Dear Mr. President,

According to The New York Times, you’ve come out of your 4-year slumber and are “angered” by the GOP attacks on Susan Rice over her remarks on the Benghazi attack. They say you’re ready to go “toe-to-toe” with the Republicans who dare “besmirch” Rice’s reputation. I say, it’s about time you got your dander up and stood for something. But what about going “toe-to-toe” with these Neanderthal Republicans over their “austerity” plan to balance the budget on the backs of the average John and Jane Doe so they can give more subsidies and tax breaks to the rich? Why didn’t you get angry at the corporate moguls and Wall Street Banksters who got us into this mess and then got off scot free after you bailed them out? Or the generals who fucked up Iraq and Afghanistan while fucking socialites in their spare time? They haven’t won a war in 70 years. And where was your anger when Congress passed the law that forced the US Postal Service to the brink of bankruptcy with the never-before-mandated requirement to pay $5 billion a year for retiree benefits 70 years into the future? And why not get angry at yourself for listening to John Brennan, your Rasputin, who whispers names in your ear for your Kill Lists? He’s made the world less stable, generated hatred against us for generations to come, and guaranteed a state of permanent war. Why not get angry at yourself for your stupid decisions to crank up the war in Afghanistan, as well as the drone wars in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen? Where’s the anger and anguish over sending young men and women to die in countries that are no real threat to us? Every civilian man, woman and child killed by a Hellfire missile should make you as angry as it does me, for every war crime, every crime against humanity stains us all at every level of humanity. You’re getting angry for the wrong reasons, Mr. President. You’re getting angry over a political charade but I see no anger over a lack of progress on global warming, or Republicans’ attacks on the average American through cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits and pensions. I see no anger at their union busting, at our crumbling infrastructure, at the threats to democracy by the NDAA you signed that did away with habeas corpus and authorized indefinite detention without legal recourse. You’re playing political games while the country sinks deeper into the morass of spiritual and financial bankruptcy. Time to wake up, Mr. President and be angry.