May you be the worst year of our future lives.
As I predicted back in January, this year was not terrible for me personally. It's amazing how difference having enough money makes. We own like 26% of a house, we have a reliable car, we can buy whatever we want to eat and if our shoes wear out we can buy new shoes and if we're sick or injured or need new glasses, we can just see a doctor or even go to the hospital without facing financial ruin.
On the other hand: Dr Skull's health has been bad (though he's doing much better now and seems to be heading for total wellness).
On the other hand: Thanks to trans people being the new favorite scapegoat of MAGA and the GOP, my kid and his husband are losing rights one after the next. They have an escape plan, if necessary, but they really want to stay here in Fayetteville if they can. Our governor and our senators and our federal government are doing their best to make that impossible.
(Side note: I can't believe people are still buying the "ooo those immigrants are destroying the country / ooo those trans people are destroying the country" con-job, but from what I have seen on "conservative" blogs and sites, they either actually are, or are pretending to be, buying it.)
On the other hand: Trump's circus of a government seems bent on destroying any progress the country made toward fixing global climate change.
On the other hand: GOP state governments seem determined to destroy the American education system. Ignorant people make good conservatives, after all.
On the other hand: GOP state governments and the federal government alike are stripping as many rights as they can from American citizens, including the right of due process and the right to control our own bodies, with more scheduled to be removed soon if they hold power.
On the other hand: Trump's circus of a government and the rest of the GOP are grifting every nickel they can to bribe billionaires and give tax breaks to the 1% and leave the rest of the country sick and poor and desperate. And the cost of living continues to increase.
Right now we seem on track to take back the government in 2026. May things get better after that. Please.
2 comments:
There were NO Trump signs that we passed in my in-laws town this year. There were fewer last year than the year before, and then just none this year, even the house that my MIL thought would never take their flag down.
Looked like most of the fields had been corn this year, but you can only do that a couple years without rotating to soybeans or clover or spending a fortune on fertilizers. Plus the local news was talking about how Trump refused to send FEMA for a disaster last summer in a nearby city and how that was affecting people's Christmases who had lost their houses and how the Salvation Army and American Red Cross were overwhelmed but making sure the people being interviewed at least had hotels to stay in at Christmastime.
LOTS of signs up in people's yards for the county clerk election coming up. Something is changing in the rural midwest.
Fingers crossed
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