The Halloween season and the creepy political stuff to make people fear have gotten all conflated in my waking minutes over coffee.
I want to laugh at the image at the left (from Pan's Labyrinth, 2006), but maybe I shouldn't. I don't watch TV, so I forget how constant the fear mongering gets repeated. The hatred on the radio is stunning.
Wonderful quote for today from Van Jones below that makes this image relevant.
“We should be willing to tell the truth with the same audacity that they are willing to tell their lies.”
The truth is this is the most important Encinitas election of the new century. Business as usual, incivility, lying, cronyism and marginalizing whole swaths of the population are all unacceptable behaviors when this general population is stirring, moving and demanding to be heard about what quality of life means for them.
It is no longer acceptable for Jerome Stocks and his overseers and his friend Muir on the dais or Forrester on the ballot to figuratively pat us all on the head and tell us to shut up.
Like communities throughout the country, corporate dominance in our lives, our community is growing. No, Mayor Stocks, Walmart is not just another door like all of our homes' front doors.
There are very real fears about our financial future, upzoning, open and accessible governance. I personally don't believe our community is resilient enough for the stresses to come with climate change and a broken economy. But, I feel we are bursting with talent and ideas for that to be a reality - if only city hall were welcoming.
Everything is not okay, regardless of our love for this community. We dissent. We vote. We get out the vote.
