Enough

All of this hatred is building up. All of these months of baiting people with lies about their grandparents on death panels, their guns and homes being taken away....it all always ends one way. Someone unbalanced is inspired to do something terrible. By someone who thinks that they are beating back the current of change that's sweeping the political system. Someone who thinks they are taking us back to the good old days. Someone who is dumb or crazy enough to believe in what many of these far-right wing voices are telling them. Someone dangerous and dedicated. That's what a terrorist is, kids.

This hateful and decrepit idea of what America is 'supposed' to be is really just a loud, but weakening voice in the back of the room. A voice that spits on leaders from the civil rights era; a voice that burns effigies hanging by nooses; a voice that means to intimidate and corral the fearful into agreeing that things that are new are evil and here to destroy us. This voice is old and weakening and has screamed at us from history since slavery, since we took over this land from a native people. Since Gays were arrested for being what they are. Since the persecution of so many was just a distraction from what was on tv. I'm tired of that voice. We're all tired of that voice.

I say this: Screw the good old days. The days of blind hatred. The days of pollution without any sense of the damage being done. The American Dream that you read about that you grow up to find doesn't exist. It's time we forget about the good old days. It's 2010. And there is nothing you can do about that, friend. Build as many white picket fences as you like.

And I think I speak for every American that just wants us to grow and learn and be the best people we can when I tell the effigy-burning sect of the Teaparty:

SHUT UP. All of you. Enough of you. We're not moving backwards because you can't deal with reality. Grow up, shut up and get with the program.
Enough.

-Brett M. Houchin