I'm not sure it would be possible
to overstate the level of racism, misogyny, and all purpose bigotry that exists gleefully and hatefully in this fucked up country, which is about to fuck up the world and the planet it inhabits.
or to overstate the deleterious effects of incessant right wing propaganda fouling our discourse for decades.
or to overstate the failure of the "free" press and the current SCOTUS.
we are a nation betrayed. we could not keep it, Mr Franklin.
I'll probably be dead by the time the abject poverty and overt acts performed to destroy us have borne fruition. Or maybe not. I thought I was so lucky to have lived long enough to see the first Black president AND the first woman president, but no. Apparently I lived long enough to be there when it all went to hell. But it's the next generations who will be living in that hell.
It's early the next morning. I find I cannot even express the level of devastation I am trying to process. I am not well. My country is not well. I have family members who are celebrating this as I grieve.
I worked the election yesterday and had an epiphany. It dawned on me profoundly that so many of the people who voted for this destruction of democracy and the erasure of the middle class and the expansion of the destitute population really didn't apprehend the full consequences of their vote. They think life will go on as normal. They think we'll have elections that are meaningful going forward. They don't think, essentially: they don't think. They are so comforted by being part of the hating class, of thinking they're better than others based on nothing but their color and station in life. They hate liberals just because.
I just really believed that there were more of us.
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