Give The Devils Their Due: YouTube Find Of The Week

With Obama’s inauguration and the end of an error, I got to thinking this past week about how easy it is now for so many to trash and thrash George and Dick.

But who is really to blame for eight years of madness?

Notwithstanding Diebold, voter disenfranchisement, hanging chads, and the rest, the fact is no real revolt took place over the Republic’s rapid demise among vast numbers of its citizens, until the economy tanked.

For the most part, America just rolled over and allowed itself to be sodomized for eight years, thinking that the backdoor raping of its Constitution and values were necessary for “safety’s sake.”  (Yes eight years, not six and a half, because nothing really changed after 9/11.  For the same cynical, unquestioning pragmatism that allowed We The People to let the Supreme Court pick our President, allowed us to led by the nose into Iraq.)

But when the pimps quit paying the bills, things changed.  Suddenly, sodomy became intolerable.

Individuals sometimes have to hit rock bottom before they are willing to take on the responsibility for change.  Seems the same holds true for nations.

Change has come.  And We The People are that change.

It’s “Nobody’s Fault But Ours.”  Let’s give the Devils their due.

I discovered a YouTube upload of Nina Simone’s version of the classic “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” this past week.  Incomparable.

Nina Simone’s bio on Wikipedia.