Wasted Words

I don't get involved with politics because I think my time and effort is better spent elsewhere. Though I have been told from near-infancy that my VOICE MATTERS, do-gooders who utter that line fail to say to whom it matters and if it will change things if it is perceived as "mattering".

Right now, Illinois is a few weeks from enacting the Safe-T act, which removes all bail requirements for second degree murderers, rapists, trespassers, drug dealers, and thieves. What this means is that my neighborhood could very well look like a live action RPG of The Purge, except the guns and knives will be 100% real. I had many chances and plenty of desire to move out of Illinois, but I remain here for my elderly parents.

Back in the day, I worked as a shelver in my local library. That library has become insufferably woke. Not only have they been enforcing masks and MRNA vaccines FOR CHILDREN long after it has fallen out of general popularity, but now they have decided to go the full monty by hosting a drag queen show for tweens and teens.

The library is no longer a refuge for intrepid nerds as it was in my day. Instead, it is a salaried office plankton class indoctrination camp. How sad that one of the few accidentally holy places in our atheist culture has gone the route of Progressive mental illness. The library is now toxic virtue signaling narcissist utopia.... great.

Here is a letter I wrote with them in mind:

Dear Library Board Members,

The Public Library is not the appropriate place for a drag queen show. I once organized a drag queen show to benefit a downstate animal sanctuary. I have nothing against drag, despite it having problematic implications for feminism as it is in essence a minstrel show with women as its subject of parody instead of blacks. Look up the origins of drag if you doubt me. The issue is not drag, it is drag at a publicly funded library marketed to a child audience.

Despite the cost of the performer being donated, the Library must still put taxpayer money into hosting any and all events as it provides the space, the employees, lights, gas, and electricity required to host events. If only fifty percent of taxpayers who bother to voice their opinions approve of a drag show in the library, that means the event has received a failing grade.

The Library seems absolutely determined to politicize itself via virtue signaling. Hard evidence was the extension of masking and vaccination mandates within the library’s walls well beyond January 2022. Discrimination against LGBTQIA+ earns finger-pointing and scowls yet if the unvaccinated so much as walked in the door, it was open season for discrimination of the kind not seen since blacks had separate drinking fountains. Shame on you all, especially in light of recent information coming to light about the horrible side effects (including death) of the MRNA vaccines that people were tricked or forced into accepting into their arms. You played right along while an entire generation of young children was robbed of normal human experience and apparently their future fertility. There is a meme going around that we now know who would have played along if the 2020s were 1930s Germany, and to quote a children’s game that was not allowed to be played in the year 2020-2021, “You’re it”.

Please, for the love of taxpayers, renege on your public funding. The Library is no longer problematic the second it becomes a private library. Since it has become unthinkable to give up the woke agenda, it’s time for you to have your cake and eat it too. Become a private library and this all goes away — you can insist on masks and vaccines for everyone in perpetuity, you can include openly pornographic LGBTQIA+ books in the Junior Room collection, you can beg for funds for an array of woke events, and you can virtue signal to your heart’s content.

Kimberly Steele

Scathing, isn't it? There is so much more I could say. I wanted to mention the woke pushing the envelope and listening for the sound of tumbrils and the creak of approaching guillotines. You DO NOT piss off momma bear, and that's exactly what they've put most of their efforts into: indoctrinating, grooming, and attacking children.

I feel hatred towards these people. I have the extra brain cells it takes not to turn my thoughts into concrete action, otherwise I would have worded it differently. Hating them may not be productive or helpful but I am honest about it. There is no point in lying to myself or papering over my hatred. In a slightly different universe, my alternate self would usher them to the grisly fates I believe they have earned. Plus, even if I send this letter to them, it is pretty much guaranteed it will go in one ear and out the other. I suggested a private library in their case, but until certain heads land on pitchforks, they won't consider it and I know that. I was being sarcastic.

Truly the only thing I can do is to focus on my own projects, my garden, my friends, and my family. Voting doesn't change anything for the better, especially not in corruption-ridden Illinois. I'm not even sure I'll vote for governor this primary -- why? I would put a large amount of money of Pritzker winning because Bailey (Republican candidate for governor) is looking more and more like controlled opposition. The whole reason I will go to the polling station at all is to vote in conservatives for seemingly insignificant positions such as school boards and judges. Those are the positions it isn't so easy for Democrats to cheat and they are the ones that actually matter. Until then, my energy is better spent putting on gloves and boots so I can go outside and dig.