The End of Green Eagle?
I started following not just the far right, but fringe religious and scientific beliefs too, in the late 1960's. At first it was an amusement to follow the likes of the National States Rights Party, or Scientology or General Semantics, or lunatic Evangelical religious groups. But around the time of the Reagan administration, I began to see that these perverted people just refused to give up their malign idiocy, and they were starting to attract funding from rich sociopaths that believed they could personally benefit from encouraging the public to detach its political views from rational thinking.
At that time I began believing that what was happening, if it remained unchecked, could result in such a right wing surge in the United States that we could find ourselves facing a fascist takeover that could sweep away everything we thought was unalterable about our country. Well, with a couple of exceptions, no one believed me. I even had an acquaintance who is a psychiatrist, who started out thinking I was a paranoid schizophrenic, who a few years later admitted that everything I had said had proven to be true.
Time went on, and the rational people who should have taken it upon themselves to take a stand against this ever-growing American love affair with hatred and violence, just averted their gaze.
Ten years ago, I began my blog, in an attempt to document this storm which was overtaking our country. As time went on, I found a few people who could see what was so clear to me, but basically the vast majority just ignored what was happening.
I spent those years documenting this savage outpouring of irrational dementia, as it grew worse and worse. That was the task I assigned myself, and I kept at it for just about 5,000 posts. In my Wingnut Wrapup articles alone, I documented about 10,000 specimens of right wing malice and mental disturbance.
Well, there is little left for me to do today, in a country where the aberrations that I have written about do not need to be memorialized in a blog; they can be heard every day coming from our President and his party. It's there for everyone to see now; they don't need me to point it out to them.
I just do not believe Green Eagle has much of a function any more. I will probably write a little when I feel like it, but I think that it is pretty much time to pull the plug on this blog, and just hunker down and wait out the storm, if I live that long.
Thanks for reading my posts over the years. I hope we may all live to see better times, but I just don't have any faith in that happening.
At that time I began believing that what was happening, if it remained unchecked, could result in such a right wing surge in the United States that we could find ourselves facing a fascist takeover that could sweep away everything we thought was unalterable about our country. Well, with a couple of exceptions, no one believed me. I even had an acquaintance who is a psychiatrist, who started out thinking I was a paranoid schizophrenic, who a few years later admitted that everything I had said had proven to be true.
Time went on, and the rational people who should have taken it upon themselves to take a stand against this ever-growing American love affair with hatred and violence, just averted their gaze.
Ten years ago, I began my blog, in an attempt to document this storm which was overtaking our country. As time went on, I found a few people who could see what was so clear to me, but basically the vast majority just ignored what was happening.
I spent those years documenting this savage outpouring of irrational dementia, as it grew worse and worse. That was the task I assigned myself, and I kept at it for just about 5,000 posts. In my Wingnut Wrapup articles alone, I documented about 10,000 specimens of right wing malice and mental disturbance.
Well, there is little left for me to do today, in a country where the aberrations that I have written about do not need to be memorialized in a blog; they can be heard every day coming from our President and his party. It's there for everyone to see now; they don't need me to point it out to them.
I just do not believe Green Eagle has much of a function any more. I will probably write a little when I feel like it, but I think that it is pretty much time to pull the plug on this blog, and just hunker down and wait out the storm, if I live that long.
Thanks for reading my posts over the years. I hope we may all live to see better times, but I just don't have any faith in that happening.
Comments
May I name a pet G.E. in your honor?
don't give up. Many like myself don't
have the expertise to write or say what you have eloquently put out
We will always need voices like yours.
I do not comment but I always share and discuss your point of view.
If you leave you will be missed
Thank you for all that you have written
Peace
So far it looks like the worst of the post-election pessimism (I felt it too) has been unfounded. I thought the ACA would be swept away, but so far it's survived, because the enemy is so factionalized. Trump wanted to remove sanctions on Russia, but Congress has slapped him down. He pulled out of the Paris accord, but the major cities and states are sticking with it, and the rest of the world is doubling down.
You might want to consider taking a few weeks off just to get away from all the toxicity (I did that about a year ago, though for rather different reasons), and see how you feel about blogging then. Either way, thank you for all you've contributed.
I didn't want to see how the two parties changed over the decades. My small-city newspaper was also right-wing, so the information I received didn't make much of a dent. (This past week, every column it ran from a nationally syndicated columnist was from someone mentioned in at least one of the Wingnut Round-ups.)
Someone directed me to Green Eagle, and I thought he was not quite in touch with reality. So I began to challenge him in these comments.
He responded back.
I tried to keep challenging him. I didn't convince him of my positions, but he convinced me that there was something wrong with my Republican Party.
So I voted for Clinton next election.
I'm going to miss the youngster.
Thank you, Green Eagle
Perhaps it will become clear to you how you can apply your talent for research and your passionate rationality to another area of civic life. I believe it's time for imagining Solutions...picturing scenarios that get us back to the world we thought we were born into.
I'll still check this site regularly, and hope the see more thought-provoking analysis and entertaining outrage from Green Eagle.
Best wishes.
You will be missed. And, of course, if things start to look up, we shall all see much more of each other.
You have articulated our thoughts for years as you documented the Great American Tragedy.
The Reagan Revolution is over. The Right has seized power and face little opposition. If real opposition occurs there will be furious retaliation from the authoritarian corpo/military/police state.
It is dispiriting and depressing to witness the end of a democratic republic, brought about by a Cult of Right-wing Authoritarian Personalities. They are a minority, but the true believers of the CRAP are fanatic cultists and their agenda is backed by big money. They will not compromise. They will not reason. They will not yield. And they most certainly will not have mercy or compassion on the politically crippled majority of Americans.
As the late great George Carlin stated, "You don't have rights, you have owners...This country is finished."
I'll leave you with one more piece of music.
So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh by Woody Guthrie.
Best wishes wherever you roll along.
I'm disheartened to have missed the train, but will wait at the station should anyone remember to come back.
Each voice, in a sea of voices, is important.
And lets just be clear that anyone who actually tells the truth- from bloggers like Driftglass and many others I can mention, all the way up to great journalists like Keith Olbermann, are systematically excluded from the public discussion, in favor of corporate liars who get paid millions to lie away the obvious malignancy of the right in this country.
Oh well, sue me.