Old Gray Men

Old gray men; we see them everyday on our televisions, on our I-Pads.  They are desperately trying to hold on to the past, to ideas and principles that no longer fit modern America.

They have been wrong countless times, giving us Iraq, a huge deficit, blocking health care reform for years, blocking full rights for women, blocking protections for children, holding back decent treatment of our people for years, screwing up the criminal justice system with a punitive approach that has incarcerated millions of non-violent drug users.  The list is long, the damage is real.

The war on crime, Iraq, destroying gun control, anti-abortion madness; etc., all legacies of gray old men.

They have contributed millions to the NRA, who have cowered our leaders into allowing the nation to be armed with military weapons of mass destruction.

Friday, a mentally disturbed young man, killed 26 in an elementary school of all places, with an assault rifle his mother owned.  His mother bought the weapon (s) and took her mentally disturbed son to the shooting range to evidently sooth his madness.  Nobody said a thing.  People knew he was disturbed, and I assume knew she had guns, all legal, and then he snapped and killed a bunch of kids a few days before Christmas, who were too young to know there is no Santa Claus.

And the old gray men scream, guns not people kill.  And they send more money to the NRA.  And they troop out sayings by Ronald Reagan about personal responsibility.  And we watch as hundreds of thousands are killed by guns, equalling the death toll from WWII every seven years!

Old gray men hate the Affordable Health Care Act.  They push conservative governors to not cooperate with the federal government, while their populations add more poor, untreated children to a  list of suffering and grief.  Old gray men with money, push to actually keep health care away from children because of their selfishness and  their sullenness.  

Most old gray men hate the Affordable Care Act, for reasons they cannot express, but all carry a Medicare Card.

Old selfish gray men.

Old gray men, who are getting meaner everyday; who want our society to be nihilistic,  selfish and hateful.  After Newtown, they are getting their wish; we are a country of fear, of hate, of reactionary selfishness.  Old gray men, even want to secede from the union, sparking yet another Civil War, because a black man was re-elected.  Old gray racist men.

Old gray men remain completely quiet, like the NRA, as we watch babies being buried in Newtown; victims of a crazy man with a machine gun.

And on Facebook, we now begin to read their posts as they come out of hiding, once again stating their absolute right to own guns, any gun.  We read a post about a Congressman in Texas, and other posts, claiming if the teachers would have been armed it would not have happened.

The basic stupidity and lunacy of old gray men advocating arming teachers is unbelievable!   A shoot out in a first grade classroom?    What message does it send children, watching their teacher with a gun on their hip?  The lunacy of gray old men.

The only thing that is good, is that the old gray men will someday expire, and leave us with their legacy of hate, of denial, of stupidity.  By then it will too late.

Old gray men, once again screwing our country up.