Killing Your Own People

When you find yourself back living in your childhood home, eventually you find out it is no different than before.  What do I mean by this?  The most operative realization is the community in which you live is no different than before.  For a military town this especially is true.  The common consensus about Da Ville is, people don't want change.  I hear this from workers trying to earn an honest living.  Housing costs are unreasonably high and wages are low.  Those in control don't want change and to keep wages low.  An image begins to develop explaining why Da Ville is Da Ville, why a military town is the way it is.  It is the opposite of progressive.  We could go so far to say it enjoys its stagnation.  Since my mother died a year ago this month, I have developed a newer understanding of Fayetteville.  I don't like being a complainer.  It depresses me to wallow in negativity, but you reach a certain point when things are awry.  They belie normalcy, or in our case American democracy, rule by and for the people.  I'm positive it has been this way for a long time, but today the rich make no attempt to cover up their corruption, immorality, and even fascism.  We, the people of the South and the confederacy, were the purveyors of lynching after losing the Civil War.  We continued to fight the Civil War after it had been won by the Union.  They kept ships in the harbors for several years to protect freed slaves and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, but as soon as they sailed back north, segregation, Jim Crow, and pure fascism ensued.  It should be no surprise the state of the South today.  We have a great example in the White House, a convicted felon, and as the new Epstein E-Mails state, not a more morally repugnant person.  This is telling information, but it is helpful to hear an insider scoop.  I can recall nothing worse in my lifetime than waking up and reading about Donald Trump and scourge that is the modern republican party.  Their corruption is blatant, and they are proud of it.  This include Phil Berger, the leader of the state legislature, probably the most corrupt of all the fifty states.  It is a depressing state of affairs to live in such a place.  We could call it trickle down corruption.  Corruption in Washington, DC, corruption in Raleigh, and corruption in Da Ville where ignorant people keep electing Mitch Colvin mayor only because he is black.  I will not state the lawsuits that are active because of the irresponsibility of the City Council and County Commissioners.  Thirty million dollars was embezzled from Cumberland County, and they destroyed a perfectly functional parking lot in front of the court house and left a disaster area.  Myron Pitts calls it urban blight.  Everyone should go look at this mud hole that once was a useful parking lot for the court house.  It is like a bomb exploded, and now Russell Street looks like old Detroit.  The citizens of Fayetteville did not deserve this.  Now the same group of Fayetteville elites wants a hotel downtown on top of the parking garage for Segra Stadium.  Patrons of this hotel can watch CSX, Aberdeen and Rockfish, RJ Corman, and the army's military trains shunt cars from the Milan yard to Russell Street.  Downtown fundamentally is and always has been a rail yard.  There have been ebbs and flows of successes trying to disguise and repurpose downtown.  We are at an ebb, and the outbreak of Covid provided great cover for the undermining of American democracy and the building of an oligarchy.  Knowing that Dick Cheney and Anthony Fauci created Covid for and through the military with billions of dollars, we must understand we still have this product.  I say product loosely, but that is what it is.  It is a tool of murder, but sometimes people don't die.  It is a lethal weapon, and the military has it.  We also have the most trained and dangerous Special Operations soldiers trafficking narcotics through Fort Bragg.  Anyone want to wage war against this group?  The answer is no, and isn't that convenient?  That violent murderous cartel gang violence was taught by the American Special Ops.  They were supposed to work for us, but they went rogue.  It is in your best interest not to pay attention to it all, because it is horrific.  We must stay abreast of leadership, but I see no end to this corruption except for a civil war, a coup, or some type of violent repercussion to match the severity of the Trump administration.  It is a step forward that Republicans actually voted to release the Epstein information.  While other third world nations abuse, oppress, and exploit their citizenry, America largely has been free from this abuse, until now.  I don't like being a complainer or a soldier, but I am surrounded by people who enjoy and have trained to fight and kill.  I guess it is fitting to adopt this lifestyle, but we need to know who the enemy is.  Seeing as our Special Operations forces are profiting from drug running, we must conclude that the other higher ups, possibly including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are capable of this control and manipulation.  In the film "JFK," it is clear these officers wanted the war in Viet Nam and manipulated President Johnson.  Dwight Eisenhower staunchly warned against a war economy.  Now we are on the cusp of an invasion of Venezuela.  What!?  Does Congress not have to vote to declare war?  They are not capable of much of anything.  In the year I have lived alone in Da Ville, I have seen it change drastically.  Often I wonder if it is because the older generation has died out.  This generation of well educated, moral, caring people kept Fayetteville sane and normal.  Now we have spiraled into ghetto chaos, and Mitch was elected yet again.  I smell pot when I drive around the city and see homeless people everywhere.  Da Ville is a metaphor for moral turpitude.  I don't think the purveyors are bad people.  I think they have been forced into poverty and its accompanying behaviors.  How can we  be both the most depressed city in America and with the highest incidences of STD's?  If somethings will depress you, it is the reward of contracting HIV or Herpes for having recreational sex.  I have been fortunate to travel around the world working on cruise ships as a pianist, and in my eyes there has been no worse place than Fayetteville.  You can sentimentalize anything, but it is best not to.  Anytime I mention out loud the thought of selling the house and moving away, I get  lectures about how it is bad everywhere.  You can't buy a house for less than what you are selling for.  I don't believe this.  From experience the first place I moved to for graduate work was far more evolved than Da Ville.  It was night and day even with Fort Jackson.  The players at the table want Fayetteville like this, because they retain economic control.  They have the ability to embezzle thirty million dollars from the city, and leave a half built fire station, tennis complex, and other projects.  This cries out for change not to elect the same conductor.  Like the state legislature, the city council does its best to try to conceal its business.  With lack of leadership corporate America tries to harm us.  They keep us sick to make money treating us.  They push us out of our homes to profit from their resale.  They prop up useless businesses like insurance, so they can just take the taxpayers money.  There must be no leadership at Fort Bragg, or is it Fort Liberty?  A Department of War?  Pete Hegseth?  Donald Trump?  These are our current examples of American life?  It is the life of the Mafia.  Recently I heard a news commentator ask why Big Tech didn't stand up to Donald Trump?  The answer is he is the most powerful important man in the free world.  This poor example of a man somehow worked his way into this position, and that is why Big Tech and everyone else kisses his ass.  As was proven with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it only takes a few bullets to effect change.  They chose Charlie Kirk.  He was murdered by his own people, and we need to realize it now.  It was the first visible politically motivated assassination of the Trump tenure.