11.02.13
Talking about the Malevolent Nation
The beating of people who are down is normal now, something not worth an uncomfortable shrug.
It’s evidence of a raw malevolence in the national spirit, something that’s only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, put there through prolonged hardship, the rogue GOP and too many centrist Democrats who have always found it convenient to be indifferent.
And, as it worsened, many people turned off, turned away or became inured.
“One in seven in Pennsylvania are on food stamps,” reads a Pennsylvania newspaper this week. “At the stroke of midnight on Halloween, food-stamp benefits were cut throughout America for the first time in history.”
“This is nothing short of catastrophic,” Bill Clark, an executive director of a hunger relief agency in Philadelphia, told the newspaper. (Hat tip to Pine View Farm.)
Similar articles were published around the country, a couple in the Los Angeles Times, some well in advance. But nothing was done and, apparently, nothing can be done.
But you could see it coming. And here’s the WhiteManistan Blues Band’s recollection, Malevolent Nation, in a brace to tunes set on YouTube over the past three years.
The virtual guitar case tip jar.