how else can you explain wanting to "nuke a hurricane" for frack's sake! He most definitely has a death wish... one that has HIM living while killing everyone else, except for little under age blond down the block. /snark
I think, for me, it's the complete helplessness I feel to stop any of this from taking place. The lack of power while this one man, with all the power, decides life or death for millions. Nothing has laid bare the lies of America more than this. We the People are the real government of the country?! Give me a break! Not when every election is subject to any number of rigging attempts and outright theft. Not when the newest of technologies are being used and absolutely no safeguards with it.
Not when the ONLY thing we as a people can do to make any impact is to take a high powered rifle and mass murder... and even THAT has no more impact today than anything else. How much lower do we have to fall?!
Our only chance at self government was the vote... and that has been slowly being stolen from us for decades. I live in a red state; I've never missed an election, but there's not been ONE election where I felt like my vote actually counted for something. It was depressed and diminished by gerrymandering so many times I've lost count. We're been kettled, bottled up, and laughed at by legislatures that don't represent *us* just as much as if they'd taken each one of our votes and torn them up in front of our faces. Because of this, I would still love to live in a Blue State... surrounded by people who think like I think; who feel like I feel; who care. But now we see where that doesn't even protect people... because THIS government has made them national enemy #1, as is acting accordingly.
They've stolen my childhood religion and turned it in to something evil. They've stolen my current spirituality because if there was a god... ANY god... what kind of god would allow something this evil to live?
I'm nearly 70, and in bad physical shape. I marched back in the 60's and 70's. I march today for the same grievances (and more) that we had back then. My monthly SS check is less because all my life I got paid like a woman, instead of being paid for the worth of the job I did. Now, today, I have to worry each month if even that check will be deposited into my bank account. My hubby is on the rapid downhill slide of old age's dementia... but I protect him from people and situations where they could take him away from me and institutionalize him "for his own good." My power is being used to protect him as much as possible, and also my gender fluid grandson, who was thrown out of his home by his own mother.
And we're all ruled by these demons in the WH, which we can't get rid of. I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling like this, but what CAN we do to make the changes we need? I'm afraid there's been a point inside me that had never been acknowledged, let alone let loose. That point where the old "take him behind the woodshed" threat my dad often made sounds better and better each day... he's certainly made it easy enough by turning the East Wing into the woodshed. But how in the hell can you get him out there behind it? (sigh)
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