… and only missed out voting for Humphrey because I moved out of state to another college. It’s discouraging sometimes, being a Democrat — but I always had great hope for the future until Trump Twice.
This SCOTUS is dismantling “my” century, which I never thought of that way until they started in on all our progress and finally got to Dobbs. The first couple of actions along that line, like gutting the Voting Rights Act, were simply deeply shocking — but since Dobbs it’s just felt like one gut punch after another.
. MAGAGOP and SCOTUS want to erase the 20th century, and in doing so erase us: all women, people of color, LGBTQ+ community, non-Christians, and as DUers know, white men of any description who simply have no intention of bowing to MAGAGOP.
Where I am it’s 8:50 in the evening, the last night of 2024. All day I’ve felt like I was in mourning, and that the death of Jimmy Carter just allowed it tears, tears and a voice. What a splendid and admirable life he lived, and shall we not see his like again? We don’t know... But what I seem to be mourning, really, is my country. In the bleak midwinter.
Probably not tomorrow, but certainly the day after, I will take up my tasks, and will join those of our friends here who insist we Dems need to buck up and never give up hope.
We shall live to see better days, Sparkly. 
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