Like tears in rain.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.

Over the weekend, white supremacists marched in Washington D.C.

Hold the fuck on, is this 2020, or 1920?

This morning, I woke up to find that "Hanoi Jane" was trending on Twitter because Jane Fonda was one of the presenters at the fucking Oscars.

Seriously? Are we still fucking around with "Things that offended the Baby Boomers 50 years ago?"

Are we living in the 21st century, or stuck in some sort of time warp that repeatedly returns us to 1972? I'm 46 years old for fuck's sake. Jane's dipshit trip to North Vietnam and posing on an NVA Anti-Aircraft gun happened before I was even born. I'm sorry, but I think it's past time we get over it, and there's only one side of our political spectrum that's perpetuating this silly bullshit.

Yes, conservatives, I'm looking at you.

I mean, come the fuck on, people. Why in this day and age, are we still dealing with the same type of shit that we were a couple of years before my Grandpa was born, or the year before I was born?

Admittedly, one part of this country has made tremendous progress just in the last decade...while another is still dealing with shit from decades, or a century ago, because people can't accept stuff that didn't even happen in their generation, or in the case of Baby Boomers, stuff that they themselves may have been instrumental in bringing about, because it didn't end up with them being considered special enough, or something. Why the fuck do we have to waste our time with these assholes trying to re-litigate the 20th century? We could be halfway to the nearest stars by now, or could have cured cancer, or any number of other great things...except that some people would rather die of cancer or choke to death on our own polluted atmosphere than stop hating Black people.

If you don't think that ends up being a problem for everybody, you have another thing coming.

Also, as of last week apparently, starting with Donald Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast (and just why do we even have such a thing, again?) and continuing with none other than Jerry Falwell Jr. conservatives, including Evangelicals...are now preaching about the glories of irreligion, at least as regards any religion that might constrain behavior or negatively affect one's Party loyalty. As I've said before, there's getting to be something very...Soviet...about the Republican Party.

And that is, that all must be subordinated to some stupid ideology, irregardless of doctrine or fact or personal belief. I'm serious, if you don't see what's wrong with that, I can't help you.

And mind you, Republican ideology is defined by hate and racism and shitty attitudes...and it was that way long before Donald Trump showed up.

It started with the Southern Strategy, as admitted to by Republican strategists like Lee Atwater themselves.

In point of fact, it's become so much more that way, that even the original avatars of this problem from a decade ago...a bunch of the Tea Party Republicans, of all people...have become out-caste within the Republican Party, mostly because they have some kind of principles, or at least some loyalty to something other than a shitty political program.

Tea Party Joe Walsh, of all people, has dropped out of the Presidential race and declared his intention to support any Democrat, even if it's a 'socialist' like Bernie Sanders.

If that guy can get it together, why can't the Bernie Bros and the Iowa Democratic Party do so?

Over the last few years I've watched this dude go from rabid StormTrumper to full-on supporter of the Democrats, often grappling with his own issues live on social media. Maybe there's a message there, America, it's time to get your shit together and do the right thing.

The other day, James Carville, once the head political honcho of the Clinton campaign and later, White House, said much the same. It's time we quit screwing around, and start getting shit right.

Despair won't help anyone, division won't help anyone either. Apathy and ignorance are the enemy...and if we don't stop this mess, apathy and hate and willful ignorance will kill millions of people and this mess will end with Americans shooting at each other. It may end that way anyway...but if we hand the advantage to the side that wants to shoot down their neighbors it's only going to be worse.

Why? Because if we allow Donald Trump to be re-elected, we're handing America over to silly fools who are threatened by...a Korean film director giving the acceptance speech for an Oscar for a Korean film...in Korean.

Like, the fuck do goddamned morons like Jon Miller think he's going to do...start talking in Esperanto?

And do you know what the sickest part of this stupid bullshit is, as far as I'm concerned? I don't give a fuck if he works for The Blaze or not, Jon Miller is a Black dude and you'd think he'd understand that no amount of talking like a white racist is ever going to make his dumb ass safe from the actual white racists, who can always just find one of their own to say racist shit after they get rid of him one way or another.

Twitter, for its part, was amazingly quick with the ratio, including this little gem by Katie Phang. "Hey Jon, if you don't like Koreans, go fuck a dog." Now I'm not sure about the mechanics of Korean insults as I have only the barest familiarity with the language from having briefly been over there one time...but it sounds pretty bad. I'll admit I laughed my ass off.

And ya know, an awful lot of this crap is being driven by small men who are afraid that other people will laugh at them...so they want to kill those other people.

That's got to be a hell of a way to live, just sayin.'

And even Conservatives seem to be saying that one hell of a lot of their own people are nuts.

Supposedly, the CPAC people have said they couldn't guarantee Mitt Romney's safety were he to come and speak.

Of course, in the same breath they have officially branded him a "non-conservative" whatever that means.

Personally, I wasn't aware that Matt Schlapp and the CPAC nuts had the power to dictate to people what their political beliefs are. But then, I've been a "non-conservative" based on my own personal morals since 2008 and I'm not about to let the people who allow their event to be a busy week for male prostitutes (but still claim the power to determine who is or isn't a conservative) tell me what I think, or even take them seriously in any way, shape or form. I mean, come on, Mitt Romney was the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012, with none other than Paul "I make my interns read Atlas Shrugged" Ryan as his running mate.. Are you telling me that things have shifted so much further to the Right that Mitt Romney no longer counts as a valid conservative?

Then who in the hell does?

If somebody, anybody, reading this thought "Donald Trump" well then, you have all the evidence that you need that Republicans have turned into a cult. When I was a staff member on a website for ex-Pentecostals, it was a common statement among new people joining the message board that the only person in their churches that they knew for sure was going to heaven was the Pastor.

And that is evidence of a cult-like situation.

Listen, people, we've got to stand up and we've got to start getting this shit right, because as bad as things are right now, these people are not going to stop making them worse. It's like a heroin addict chasing a high, and having to smoke, and eventually inject, ever greater amounts of the drug just to get the same level of high.

If you don't think these fools would rip down America, collapse our government and institutions and legal system and military just so they could get a chance to try to shoot down their neighbors, you have another thing coming. Don't take my word for it, don't take the media's word for it. Go and vote in November and throw the bastards out, because while we can't really stop them from trying something anyway, they'll be in a much weaker position of they know they are facing an angry and united body politic, and that's all there is to it.

 Because if you think that these motherfuckers will stop with politically disowning people, or firing people, or threats, I can't really help you and I don't know what to even say.

They want to hurt and kill people, that is their goal. No, they haven't thought one iota past that, and they never will, until it doesn't work out like they thought and then they'll still keep at it until somebody else's flag is flying over their capital and the smoke is billowing from the leader's bunker. It's really just that damned simple.

And if we don't start fighting back, or better yet, acting intelligently to prevent conflict by coming together, what the hell are we, and what are we even doing here? If the threat of fascism doesn't motivate you to get off your ass, what the hell is it going to take?

Disabled people? Old people? Poor people? If the threat of cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security...you know...programs that likely go a long way towards keeping you or people that you care about alive don't motivate you to show up and turn on these motherfuckers, what will?

Because I guarantee you, all these fucking bastards are looking to do is screw everybody and direct as much of our country's money as they can into their own pockets...and then stick the rest of us with the bill once they're all dead and in the ground and can't be forced to pay up.

Somebody needs to reclaim America from the racists. The only somebody that's available, is us.

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.

Because they're already showing us what the alternative will be if we don't.