Thanks, Kevin, but mostly I always feel like I owe people an apology after a post like that. It contains no good news, probably nobody wants to read that, and really I am not saying anything that someone paying even a slight bit of attention to the world probably would have already noticed.
Most of the time, my mind reels at what is taking place here. I am constantly trying to determine if I am overreacting or if I am really seeing what I think I am seeing.
I try to take breaks, not read or watch any news and try to get away from it. I try to go outside and walk in the woods and just let go of all this madness I can't have any effect on.
I have had a theory for some time that the goal for the Right was to make politics so intolerable and so awful that people would want nothing to do with it. I think they have achieved that goal in spades. There are a whole bunch of Democrats that are quitting DC. Some Republicans as well. Trump and the freakshow politicians that cling to him have really done things in. I was caught off guard by the damage they could do in 4 years and that they could continue to inflict more damage for years to come. But they have done it, they have broken things, proved you can run out the clock using the legal system, and get away with it.
I know I have talked plenty about it here but the truth is I can't stand it. I'm just burnt out. I have tried to have many, many conversations over the years with people with opposing viewpoints. Tried to understand where they were coming from. Tried to stand by the idea that we are all Americans, we all live on one planet, no matter what our differences there has to be common ground between us. There has to be, at the very least, a shared understanding of what is real and/or true.
I never thought that, that space where we are humans existing in the same place at the same time, just a common understanding of what reality is, could be ripped away...but they did it. So, now it seems we don't even have that.
I feel like we just have millions and millions of people that have given up on reality. So, where do you go from there?
Where do you go with people that believe there is a cabal of evil sex and race obsessed teachers that want to warp your children? Where do you go when people believe an election was stolen and violence to reinstate the guy that lost is justified? This with not a single shred of evidence ever being presented that the election was even slightly tampered with? With all bipartisan evidence presented over two years proving we had a free and fair and probably the most secure election we have ever had. Yet, millions of people continue to love the lie that it was stolen.
Where do you go when millions of people idolize a piece of garbage like Trump? A guy that is a proven liar and conman that has done nothing but bullshit and rip people off his entire life. A guy that is openly over and over bullying Republicans into lying for him because millions of people that support him like those lies. So, if they don't lie for Trump they get death threats.
I admit, I am stupid. I thought over time people would get better at spotting a bullshit artist. Instead, people seem more taken in than ever. Trump is not even a good conman, he is clumsy and inept but they still buy it. Over and over and over.
The old saying of fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, for Republicans has just become FOOL ME OVER AND OVER AND OVER OR I WILL FIND SOMEONE ELSE WHO WILL!
Look at where they have driven our society. Teachers, doctors, scientists are bad and can't be trusted. Total scum that lie as much as they breath are heroes on the Right.
