I don't understand the cultural disconnect between people voting for these things in their individual state propositions, and yet casting their vote for a creature and a party that opposes everything they otherwise signified with those individual policy votes that they value.
It seems, as has been the case as long as I have been alive, that the liberals/progressives have a massive messaging issue. Because I can't allow myself to believe that a majority - even a slim one - believe that the conversational bullet points you outline above is how we should address some of our most pressing issues, and how we should treat some of our most marginalized communities.
I guess my heart just hurts right now.
I am trying my very best to find a way to meet this with as much love in my heart as possible.
But it's so fucking tough. It's really fucking tough, and I'm not even someone who will - at least cosmetically (I'm a cis white 55-year-old male) - be affected most strongly by whatever policies we're about to see implemented.
There is a cemetery in Santa Monica called Woodlawn and in it is a grave stone with four names on it but no grave beneath. Each person’s name engraved on the stone died in auschwitz and their surviving ancestors bought the stone to memorialize them in America.
I visit it each time I go to Woodlawn Cemetery as a reminder that it’s dangerous not to pay attention to history and it is dangerous to not take a stand. Our neighbors problems are our problems.
Thank you for your post. It’s nice to not feel so alone right now.
I don't understand the cultural disconnect between people voting for these things in their individual state propositions, and yet casting their vote for a creature and a party that opposes everything they otherwise signified with those individual policy votes that they value.
It seems, as has been the case as long as I have been alive, that the liberals/progressives have a massive messaging issue. Because I can't allow myself to believe that a majority - even a slim one - believe that the conversational bullet points you outline above is how we should address some of our most pressing issues, and how we should treat some of our most marginalized communities.
I guess my heart just hurts right now.
I am trying my very best to find a way to meet this with as much love in my heart as possible.
But it's so fucking tough. It's really fucking tough, and I'm not even someone who will - at least cosmetically (I'm a cis white 55-year-old male) - be affected most strongly by whatever policies we're about to see implemented.
But yeah ... so well put. Sorry for going on...
It’s an incredibly confusing time, that’s for sure.
There is a cemetery in Santa Monica called Woodlawn and in it is a grave stone with four names on it but no grave beneath. Each person’s name engraved on the stone died in auschwitz and their surviving ancestors bought the stone to memorialize them in America.
I visit it each time I go to Woodlawn Cemetery as a reminder that it’s dangerous not to pay attention to history and it is dangerous to not take a stand. Our neighbors problems are our problems.
Thank you for your post. It’s nice to not feel so alone right now.
You're not alone!
This is wonderful; thank you. And I am sorry that you had to write it.
Thank you for reading. It's a strange time.
The 19th Century never ended. The distractions and means of extraction may have progressed, but the population hasn't. It only got 15 times bigger.