I have been trying to ignore all the political bullshit for my own sanity and I don’t have a “side” or a leaning- except toward rational , common sense, humane and better together mentality. ( for those of you who call me a liberal and as if it’s a dirty word, well if those qualities listed above are a dirty word to you, you’re the damaged one) I vote accordingly, sometimes R, sometimes D but I believe the party system is now failing us big time. But what I am truly saddened by, what is most alarming to me is the mentality of the new Republican Party. Dear friends who are lifelong republicans are expressing the same dismay and some have actually changed to independents. So many hypocrisies. Remember the Incessant Lock her up , Lock him up… but if it’s their guy, no fair going after political opponents, it’s unAmerican. In a time when we are still swamped with healthcare crisis, mental health crisis, poverty, homelessness, how many school shootings and mass shootings is it now per year in this country, crumbling infrastructure, border and immigration issues, the fallout from a pandemic, the list goes on…. R s are focusing on book banning, period regulating, banning people who like to dress up in drag( been happening since the Dawn of time, folks) uterus regulating ( do you think that would ever ever ever happen with a man’s genitals?) and even when it is proven by their own words!! News outlets Exposed! That they knew they lied about big things and they didn’t even like the entity they were promoting and lifting – there are no consequences. Zip. Business as usual.
What. The. fuck.
And all the while, we the people continue our infighting and the great divide widens and I do not understand how every single one of us doesn’t understand that will be our end. Divided we will fall- all because some powerful talking heads twisted our truths and some of us, enough of us.. fell for it.
If you think China and Russia aren’t watching with utter glee our unraveling, well what more to be said…. That.
I literally pray that we the people, all of us, remember why we came together in the first place and what truly made us great, and find a better way than what we are currently electing. Otherwise, we are so very very fucked.
Could not agree more or said better. In 70 years I have never felt so alarmed, so dismayed, so helpless, knowing that my children will not experience the world the way I did. Things were not perfect, wars, segregation political scandals then also…but not like this. Never like this.
News is entertainment, scripted crap. Corporations are raiding our country- truths? what is truth?
I fight the despair and hibernate in my small world. Social media is rampant with evil and yet I continue with the few accounts I trust and follow in order to document for myself my little world.
It’s not just us either, making it all the more frightening. Many so called democratic societies are imploding right along with us .
SIGH- a big one – I have no answers. Pandora’s box has opened-Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Envy, Sloth, Pride and Lust.
such a happy comment eh?
but hey new grandbabies- we have to hold tight to hope. some how – some way
How is your new Grand Baby doing?
No better in Britain either. Sex education for first year children at senior school, now includes assessing pornography, how to do anal sex, graphic lessons on oral sex, how to choke your partner safely, and let’s not forget the 73 genders!
MPs do NOT represent the people who voted them in (or didn’t, come to that) they just want to pretend to be an MP and rake in as much money doing other jobs as possible. They allow huge utility companies (sold abroad long ago, so we have no control what they do to keep in raking in the cash) to do what they want, charge what they want, fail us when things go wrong.
Now in Holland farmers are being banned – having to sell their livestock and contemplate having an insect farm to feed the populace, because that’s the quickest way to limit agricultural pollution and calm global warming and reach EU climate targets. This will be coming to our neck of the woods soon, along with banning the use of cash and making all banks function totally online and with no High Street presence. No wonder they’ve been ripping out ATMs!
God, no wonder I prefer to live in the past.