Another short essay in my Just Sayn’ series
What triggered my writing this was the combination of two things. One was the story about the MAGA fan saying he’s willing to go to jail to keep flying a $1,000 Trump flag 30/50 foot trump flag from a crane who to me represents the reach of the Trump cult and the other was watching parts of the Derek Chauvin trial where his defense attorney kept trying to blame George Floyd for his own death. The defense is engaging in the character assassination of George Floyd to justify a police assassination.
In between there are more and more stories like the one about the LA cops roughing up and arresting a Black man who smiled at them -- while looking for white suspect.
President Biden is doing lots great things and proving that he is the antithesis of Sleepy Joe. The Senate Democrats are finally giving Mitch McConnell a taste of his own medicine as the “a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian appears to clear the way for Democrats to bypass Republicans and fast-track at least one more fiscal package through the Senate on a majority vote.” (from “Democrats Win Crucial Tool to Enact Biden’s Plans, Including Infrastructure” in The NY Times).
Cheering me up is also the soap opera of the day week starring the poster boy for karmic comeuppance Matt Gaetz.
Then I read a story from Salon’s Chauncey DeVeVega explains how the Republicans have a plan to create an authoritarian state where voting is strictly controlled and how it It might work and it send me careening back halfway to Hell.
I’m “ Just Sayn’” that I sometimes feel like I’m living in a Halfway Hell battered and bruised from bouncing back and forth from hope to Hades.
Note: Pessimism isn’t the same as clinical depression, though the more depressed you are overall the more likely it is that you will have a pessimistic outlook. If you feel you can’t shake your feelings of pessimism I suggest you look at a website like this (WebMD) to see if you should talk to your doctor about the chance that you may be clinically depressed.