Hastening to Add

 Just in case I came across all sappy and 'love thine enemy' yesterday, that was not what I was going for at all. Someone on Facebook posted a quote about militant decency - being deeply, passionately angry about the injustice in the world and channeling that anger rather than trying to be less angry. 

I am angry at the people who voted out of hate. I am angry at the Democratic leadership that could have done more to protect abortion rights and trans rights to treatment and demonstrated the same complacency that a lot of privileged people do. I am angry at the fact that so many of my dear friends are frightened and despairing. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. I don't want to spout platitudes. I am not any kind of better person than someone who just wants to burn things down right now. This is all just weird - it's like when someone dies and you have to keep walking around in the world and not everybody else knows or cares, and you still have to go to the bank and go to work and brush your dog's teeth. 

Pictures of Lucy and her sister who lives next door, that make it look like they interact nicely instead of constantly growling and fighting and humping. When Lucy had her surgery we had to block the door in the fence where they go back and forth. When we could finally open it again Eve said "you had to be apart for six weeks and you're STILL BEEFING?"


Comments

It is just all weird right now.
J said…
I've been crazy busy with work so I saw your earlier post but did not have time to comment. Thank you for both. YES, we need to lower our own blood pressure and not hate everyone. At the same exact time, I hate everyone. This is a shitty rough time.
Swistle said…
You didn't come across that way AT ALL. I found your post sympathetic, and bolstering in its empathy.
Jenny said…
Your last post was beautiful, and so is this one. And yes- we have to acknowledge that the Democrats made a LOT of mistakes. There are many layers to this mess.
NGS said…
I am such a contrarian. I don't think we need to blame the Dems. I think we need to blame the stupid people who voted for Trump. They picked an ignorant fool over a qualified public servant. What more could the Democrats have done with the constraints they were offered? They ran on hope and promise and the other side ran on hate and Americans fell for it.

I'm coming off as hostile in your comment section, Allison, and I don't mean to be. It's not YOUR FAULT. It's mine. It's MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. We let you and the rest of the world down and I'm so sorry.
maya said…
Oh, Engie... I agree with Jenny that the Dems made mistake after mistake. Bidenomics just wasn't working for people and the campaign didn't address it. Of course Trump is horrible, but "it's the economy, stupid" has been the mainstay of American politics for a long time and the Dems seem to have forgotten the working class this time... The Teamsters didn't even bother to endorse...
Sarah said…
I agree with Engie. (And I adored the original post).

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