What a year. What a day. Some things that I am pondering as I read through DU threads
I found out about RBG's passing via a text from my daughter. Crushing news on so many levels - and yet...she was not invincible, fought valiantly against cancer. A great human being has now been lost.
I am not going to tell anyone how to react - this news will hit each of us slightly differently, depending upon our own age, our sex, our health, how fried we are from the last nearly 4 years. All deaths of truly great people are tragic...but a reminder that we all have an end point. Of course, the timing sucks, but thinking of it that way belittles RBG and who she was and her accomplishments.
And so some of the things that I am trying to work through in my mind...
Have we ever seen such a divergence between actual reality, and the falsehoods being spun by trump and his cabal and swallowed by his cult?
COVID is a hoax - yet daily 40K Americans are diagnosed, and 1000 or so more die. 1000 individual family tragedies - each day. Over 200,000. The reality of that alone should disqualify trump's approach as an utterly losing hand.
Climate change is a hoax - yet we are on tropical storm Beta, and the west coast is burning up, and there is damage and heartbreak on so much of our southern coastal areas. Again - trump and his can lie and spin, but he ignores what the climate is doing increasingly quickly at his peril (of course, it is our peril as well).
There are other facets to this - the changing demographics making republicans and their ilk increasingly endangered (thank goodness).
I know what I typed above is not clear and concise, and my points are probably obscure or confused. It is hard to take emotions and turn them into words (one of the reasons Democrats in general can't boil complex issues down to memes or slogans - we are not authoritarian, not lock step, like the assholes on the right. Truth is more nuanced).
Somehow I think things will work out....that enough repubs will do the right thing and not bend over for turtle and trump to force an ultra rightie onto the court. That all that is going on will drive an overwhelming vote from the left and we will have president Biden and VP Harris, and a Dem senate, and a Dem house at even a greater ratio.
One of the main reasons I have to be optimistic is that dictators historically overstep and become deposed - it is time for trump, barr and so many others to step aside. Thinking otherwise is just too crushingly depressing.
The most important thing we can all do right now is vote. Equally important is working to ensure others vote as well. This is indeed turning out to be the defining election in our lives. The stakes are absolutely immeasurably enormous.
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