The Candidate Shrugs

There was an interesting column by Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle the other day about the need to keep speaking out even if you're gagging in disgust over all the outrageous things being perpetrated in our names. Like we owe it to ourselves, or to the real America, or something. I don't know.

I can't honestly say I've ever been proud to be an American. But the state of play now is such that pride doesn't enter into it. I'm not only ashamed to be American, I'm embarrassed to be human. And almost speechless at the abject fecklessness of those on whom we thought we could count to turn things around, if only a little.

But I'm sick of talking about it anyway. The way I see it, we're going to have the world we deserve. As always. And by the time the shit really hits the fan, I'll be out of here.