Too many horrible things to list have happened to me since the last time I whined on a journal. My friends know about them so that's enough for me, I'd be in a depressive worried despairing state even if the U.S. Election had gone the other way...
I think I can safely put my drama aside to stand back and be in horrified awe with the people who feel me on this--just how much the election results have filled me with dread. A lot of us should be frightened. I consider it almost a small "boon" that everyone as worried as I am needn't embarrass myself with a status update on my life when the despair that my friends are all feeling would suffice to sum up how I've been doing.
I'm very bad at the comradery thing, but I did want to say I want to have solidarity with everyone who is as scared as I am right now. Everyone who wants to leave kind comments to this, thank you, but I will be pre-emptively locking this because I am well aware that the "woodwork people" are coming out of the wood work and I'm not interested in playing games with woodwork people today. And any other of my friends or readers who got pulled into any stupid online arguments with the woodwork people, I feel you. Gosh, I get really sad every time an artist I like tries to say the important things and gets ass-blasted by trolls and weirdos.
I don't have patience for such discourse, but if that wasn't a worry of mine, I'd try to kindly respond to comments. Your understanding is appreciated, readers...!
As for anything hopeful or useful I could say... I haven't got much, it isn't anything any of us have the time or energy for. The way I see it, the only way forward is for a lot more protesters to realize they should be "lobbying", and lobbying to their local governments to seek local change. We need more youngish people involved with their city councils and school boards. Politely protesting inside the legal buildings is kiiiinda what lobbying is and there's really no way for progress to be made in the U.S. without more left-leaning thinkers to get politically involved in local politics. A comprehensive approach to activism is the only thing that is going to matter now. We would need to get out there and do shit.
Which means we all need more free time and money and mental energy to go do that stuff... I know what needs to be done but I'll admit that the idea of doing that myself sounds so difficult that I don't know if I have what it takes... Never the less, that's what I think anyone wanting to oppose Project 2025 has to accept if they want to actively resist it, because getting involved in local politics is what Project 2025 is precisely going to do.
Fuck my life.
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