Anyone else having a hard time going about their normal daily life? I feel like it isn't fair for me to go about my day as if these atrocities are not going on. I'm spending most of my day scrolling through videos and being upset and I know it isn't healthy. So I will take short breaks but it's really hard to enjoy anything right now. It just doesn't feel right.
Same here. Right now I have a bench job of repetitive assembly so I'm listening on my phone all day
My grandparents came to the US as children, fleeing the facism taking over Eastern Europe. They lived through the Depression. I grew up expecting safety, bad times to revert back to good, expectations that hard work would pay off. That carrot on the string would someday be mine.
Now I'm watching our country become the kind that others fled. The book 1984 that was required reading in high school, now banned from many schools because it spells out what our government is quickly becoming. A facist regime.
They lie, boldly, unashamed, unwavering, promising allegiance to their leader as any sign of dissent would be their end.
I'm facing the guilt of wanting to just ride it out as a white woman with a job that should get me to retirement age, a house I should have paid off by then, a stockpile of foods and austere lifestyle and be sheltered from the threats the protesters face
I am encouraged by the pushback of citizens, far more than the majority of Democrats in power.
This next round of elections will be a real test. Will the neo libs give backing to the progressives, to the democratic socialists who will actually fight for reforms? or will they continue to cover their own azzes as they are complicit themselves?
