What Scares Me

A friend on Facebook posted a status to remind everyone that no political party is all good or bad, that no police department is all good or bad. And that's true. I never have disputed it. But the majority of Republicans in office right now, especially in Congress, and especially in the House of Representatives, have me scared right now. With some embellishment for this forum, where I can be a bit more verbose than on a friend's FB wall, I posted the following.

I'm not angry. I'm scared. I'm scared of what the country is becoming. I'm scared that a political party is holding the government hostage to hold the president to one term and, I fear, might be disguised or even suppressed bigotry, perhaps unknowingly, by people who just can't accept a black man running the country and are mistakenly of the opinion or are rationalizing their opinions by thinking of it in political terms.

I'm scared that the police in my city are out of control. I'm scared that my freedoms online are being threatened and that many of the sites I enjoy, for free, might be gone, or will charge more than I can afford or would want to pay. Okay, that does make me angry. And I never thought the day would come when I'd be this scared and angry, this fearful of losing my rights, of us all having our rights violated and compromised. What's been going on in recent months is shameful. And I fear the day that I won't be able to post something like this, to voice my opinion, be it anonymously or under my full name. And that would be more than a shame. It would be a tragedy.

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