America woke this morning to news that senator lindsey graham died. Speculation is rampant that mitch mcConnell is at least brain dead, but no confirmation has been made. Good Sunday Morning...
A friend said, mostly because of her job, that she refrains from making jubilant posts on social media following incidents of death or harm to others. I understand, and given normal circumstances, I would agree.
I must say however that we are not living in normal times. We are living in a time and place of absolute chaos and incivility. Our usual defenders are not fighting for us, not our legal system, our media outlets, our legislators. No one! The American people have been left to our own devices.
Enter, social media where We The People gather to vent...
This nation is being led by the worst of the worst. Cancer left untreated festers, grows, and metastasizes over time. Untreated cancer left to consume America has adversely affected all of us.
Taking the high road, being kind and gracious and civil in the face of such incivility has not served us well. Do we need to stoop to the lows where others dwell? No, not necessarily. If ever, however, there was a time to respond in kind, it is now.
If, in fact, some of the comments seem venomous or mean spirited, it is because the deceased earned such responses.
One is due in death the same level of decorum, respect, civility, and compassion by which they lived and afforded others during their lifetime. The inevitable incident of death does not make a horrible person a better person. They are simply a dead person who was horrible and who most folks, including their family, will remember accordingly. There will be no fake tears or other usual acts of mourning.
If you live a horrible life, that's how people will remember you. What is new, however, is that moreso now, people are prone to express how they truly feel about the 'dearly departed' in the immediate. We have been conditioned to not speak ill of the dead.
These departed others, however, are not just neighbors or family members who, although we didn't particularly care for, but who we still might owe a degree of respect. These are politicians and other public figures, people who were in positions of power who brought us harm. People who probably wielded their power irresponsibly and deliberately in ways to negatively affect our lives. They will be gone but the impact of the pain and suffering they caused will long endure. So, if public response to their demise is less than civil, they earned it. They are not our neighbor or loved one.
Justice scalia was the first public figure I recall being brutally scorned seemingly even before his eyes were closed. He was a horrible person, as was lindsey, as was mitch, as was rush, as is elon, as is trump (the celebration will be massive and global - we will experience world peace for as long as the celebration lasts, earning him posthumously, his shamelessly desired Nobel Prize 🤷🏾).
The list of potential candidates for the list of public figures of ill repute, is infinite. It encompasses more names than I could ever cite. The difference is that previously we waited for history to say how judge these people. In these times, however, there is no need to wait for history. History is being written about them in real time, even during their life.
They were/are horrible, horrible people. May they have an eternal reunion in hell...
FN: If these people were your loved or special ones and you ignored, excused, condoned, or remained silent as they committed their damning deeds, you were complicit in your silence. You were quiet and unbothered then, please be quiet and unbothered now. Refrain from lashing at others not sensitive to your time of sorrow. Speak not, as you did when your 'dearly departed' was here unapologetically causing grief and havoc for the rest of us...
~ Miss Higgi Says
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