We shared it was coming:
September […] On the drive to and from the East Coast, I paid attention to the billboards and bumper-stickers. Folks, the people in “Fly over” country are PISSED, from the guy that guides hunters, to the mayors of towns and cities, to state senators congressmen and Governors who are voting to arrest and imprison federal law enforcement officials for enforcing federal gun laws that don’t agree with state law … The political pendulum has never, in the history of humanity, stayed on one side of a swing. The back lash from over reach has always been proportionate to how far off center it went before coming back … right now we’re staring at a whole hell of a lot of the country (about 80-90% of the land mass, as well as about 50% of the population) that is FED UP. You really don’t want those guys to decide that the only way to fix it is to burn it down and start over… (more)
There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior – It is called “Cold Anger“!
Cold Anger does not need to go to violence. For those who carry it, no conversation is needed. You cannot poll or measure it; and even those who carry it avoid discussion; and that decision has nothing whatsoever to do with any form of correctness.
Cold Anger is not hatred, it is far more purposeful. Cold Anger absorbs betrayal silently, often prudently. Cold Anger is not driven to act in spite of itself; it drives a reckoning. Cold Anger perceives deception the way a long-term battered spouse absorbs the blows in the hours prior to a pre-planned exit; with purpose. Delicate sensibilities are dispatched like a feather in a hurricane.
Cold Anger is more severe, in part because it is more strategic. And so yesterday it began to surface:
FIRST – Avenge Kate Steinle:
[…] A San Francisco sheriff who sparked a national debate on immigration reform this summer lost his bid for re-election with a wide-margin.
Partial returns show Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi losing to retired sheriff’s official Vicki Hennessy. She has the backing of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and sheriff deputies association. With more than 90,000 votes cast, Mirkarimi had 31 percent support compared to 62 percent of the vote cast in favor of Hennessy. (link)
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