Done

That there's evil in the world is not new. That so much of it is currently concentrated in this country might be.

Once we decided, as a society, a government, and a country, that killing kids was ok, there really was no going back.

We're anxious and willing enough to protect the banks, the pedophiles, the pharmaceutical companies, the NRA and other hate groups, the churches and the serial killers. We don't really mind so much that our justice system is broken beyond repair, that lack of health care is killing people, that all politicians care about is increasing their profit and maintaining their power. We've chosen the kind of country we want. We don't mind that politicians are sold like penny candy, that right wing religion is poisoning us or that sheer hypocrisy has run the fabric of this country ragged. We don't just embrace that some lives matter less than others, we celebrate it.

Worse, we act on it.  And the very politicians and pastors and people who publicly despair, smile smugly and cheer us on.

So spare me your thoughts and prayers for the victims, your peace and love platitudes, your rainbow coalitions, your ideas that good will overcome evil and love triumph over hate. Spare me your public moments of silence and candlelight vigils on courthouse lawns.

Get off your ass and do something or shut the fuck up.

We're better than this, I hear you say, with every horrific scandal and each new mass murder.

No. We're not. Not anymore.

If you want a moment of silence, have one for this country and what it used to be.  Buy the gun, sell the vote.  It's too late to go back.  As for me, I'm done.