"Sometimes it feels like Dolly Parton is all alone down there...."
I don't want to write about what's happening in this country right now. I don't want to write about Tennessee and its descent into fascism. Fascists are boring. They all look the same. They talk the same. They all have that same sort of dumb sneer. None of them can spell. They constantly fuck up the “there / their / they’re / to / too” thing. They wear ill-fitting clothes. It’s exhausting.
The fact that the all white Republican majority in the Tennessee statehouse got pissed at 3 Democratic lawmakers for standing with children who don't wish to be massacred by AR-15 type weapons during math class.....which sounds pretty reasonable to me......to the point of expelling them from their seats?
Well, expelled 2 of the lawmakers at least. The third one causing such good trouble was a 60 year old white woman, so she was allowed to keep her seat. The black fellas....one of whom was uppity enough to rock a 70s afro, had to go.
What’s shocking is, if we’re honest with ourselves, how unshocked we are.
And what’s so ironic is how Tennessee is giving itself a real time lesson in Critical Race Theory. Who wants to tell them?