So, what just happened?

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31. Thank you for writing this, BigTree...

I was in bed with a really bad lupus flare when all this came down. My grandson came in after work to tell me, before I could hit the news and find out myself. To say I was upset is an understatement!

I'm going to be around here, reading... but this will probably be my last overtly political post. Cats and repubs will get replies, but that's about it. I am SO disheartened, and I can't come up out of it. There is no joy in this political season anymore for me, and I'm tired of all the angst and worry. The moneyed people have made their decision with their $$$; once I saw all the media about donors withholding donations, well... the handwriting was on the wall. I detest that we're being manipulated, and that's how *I* see it. Obama was a lowkey Third Way democrat. It's going to be hard going up against the big money now that we've given in to them, but we'll have to try to out go for them once Kamala gets elected (and she WILL get elected). I honestly don't know where she stands vis-a-vis the FDR vs Third Way, but I can only hope that if Biden picked her as VP, then she leans more towards FDR. The one good thing, for me, is I'll live to see a female president in the U.S. before I die.

Like I said, this is probably the last I'll say on any of this stuff... I've wanted a place to cry... to rage... rage against the dying light that everyone seems to cast us "old people" into. I've been where Biden was in my own job; and no matter how "good" it is for everyone around you, it hurts like hell when you're pushed out. Joe's too good a man to have been put through that, and I feel for him.

I still have rage, and probably will for quite a while. My rage has descended into snark and off color comments around my house. No one is happy around here with the outcome. But we're all Democrats, and we'll for democracy rather than Fascism... but that's about it. Democrats up and down the ticket, regardless. I just won't be expecting other than what the corportacy allows. The money and the younger generation have spoken. I feel there's no room for people like me anymore; not in the world, not in the party, nowhere. My values are out of step with everyone else. And so, my disheartenment and grief.