Was there a great victory in the Senate today? That's in the eye of the beholder. In my eye it was another indication of how impotent we are. Folks, I find it hard to believe we have become so hungry that crumbs become a feast! The Nation has been held to a standstill for years and today is a breakthrough? Maybe so. I think not. The purpose of the republicans is to destroy government (except when it comes to subjecting women) and they have an exemplary record of success. Yet the Democratic party fights on as if this were not really happening. Today was a positive day in that the weaklings seemed to be willing to stand up for a change.
Meanwhile the needs of the country get worse and worse and neglect of every possible kind increases by the hour.
Maybe at the unconscious level we have thrown in the towel. The Climate crisis worsens by the day. The world is fed up with us after first Bush and now this.
So if you need your rose colored glasses don't read on. What I have to say is not pleasant.
I am 77 years old. I have struggled and fought and led most of my life because I believe in freedom. I struggled in the fight against the Viet Nam war and for civil rights. I helped end the draft. The idea that one could ever live without struggle is beyond my comprehension.
I almost die working to get Obama elected in 2008 and did the best I could after my congestive heart failure to keep on the fight after that. I live a fairly green life and wish we could live like I did in my many work years in Europe when a week's trash wash far less than a day's here.
This may sound like a rant but it is deeper than that. Folks, our country is sinking fast. It will sink faster unless people wake up. Our civil liberties are gone, we have no viable middle class, we have armed vigilanties who can kill whenever they please. We have no effective government as Ayn Rand wanted it to be.
We have been reduced to grasping at straws. That is what today was for me. An impotent bunch of ineffective crusaders grasping at straws. If you settle for this I pity you.