Pardon me, but I am tired. I’ve been tired for years, and this just seems to get worse and worse as time goes by, and it has made me feel truly disheartened and dispirited about posting things I think on, and frankly of even thinking.
Truthfully, it makes it difficult to speak on serious issues, difficult to think on serious things, difficult to converse with neighbors and friends and family about the hopes and hurts of our day. I don’t know how to speak on seriousness with someone who has given up on respect and seriousness. I don’t know how to speak on reality with someone who doesn’t share a common reality! For instance…
Did you know that if you believe someone has the right to be gay, to be trans even, to be genuine!, to be able to read books about others who have struggled with similar things, that you are “a pedophile and want to maim children”? That’s what we are being told.
Did you know that if you believe in constitutional rights, individual rights, health care rights, and feeding children, you “hate America“? That’s what we are being told.
Did you know that if you think Israel has gone too far and has moved past defending its citizens and interests and is moving down a road of genocide, you “hate Jewish people and are a terrorist“? That too is what we are being told.
Did you know that if you believe that regulations are needed to ensure that people are safe, that industries don’t pollute our waterways and ground, that air pollution is toxic to the continuity of humanity, that you are “a burden on future generations and that you want America to fail“? Haven’t you heard this? I am told this all the time.
Did you know that finding a direct correlation between the prevalence of guns, the romanticization of of guns, and the unwillingness to be responsible for healthy training and use of guns to the number of children and other innocent people being victimized by guns means that you “want criminals to ruin our country“? Aren’t you watching the news? This is what we are supposed to believe.
And, I’m tired. I’m tired of trying to argue against utter nonsense and innuendo masqueraded as political wit and the solution to what ails the country is slinging batshit crazy names at someone who thinks there must be a better way. Is it too much to hope that we can get a government interested in tackling the problems and opportunities we face in America, interested in debating the pro’s and con’s and finding good solutions, or must we continue to be part of this Jr. High bullshit?
Hugs. Randy
Scottie's Playtime 
I don’t know Randy, there’s a certain satisfaction in having seen these cretins go from “Fuck Your Feelings!” to wailing “you hurt my feelings!”
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I agree, but I don’t like that in myself. Not to mention, the conversations still don’t happen. Both sides just avoid each other. sigh.
So it’s a good thing there are more of us than there are of them! Just not in every place. I can’t discuss these things with very many people IRL, either. So I just don’t. If it comes up, I have other things to do, and remove myself.
I went with an old friend to look at some 4H exhibits, then we went to the library to look at some art and edible art (book cover cakes!) We got to vote on the best. My friend, who I met working at school, saw a bookmark that said “Read Banned Books!”, pointed at it, and said “Oh, no. Don’t do that.” Since it could be taken either way, I did respond, “I know. There shouldn’t be any banned books.” She took it no further; there was a striking piece of artwork depicting a tiger, and it took us out of it. We’re still good friends. Probably won’t talk about reading much, though. May take an art class together in the Fall.
These are my workaround ways, I guess.
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Hi Ali. While I always support your right to your opinions and thoughts, I think you missed the point. There are a bunch of groups started with that motto that are funding book drives all over the country to get banned books in to the hands of kids that want them. Several big city libraries have started programs to get electronic book versions of banned books in the hands of kids, especially LGBTQ+ kids who need them now more than ever. A lot of money has been raised to push that effort, I was one who contributed. While haters might want to call it indoctrination our side was giving the freedom to read legitimate books which are not porn or smut but have characters and plots of LGBTQ+ kids just like the kids in school that need to see themselves represented in media, in the books they want to read, in the movies they see, and the world they live in. Please don’t give into the haters who would twist it, but embrace the inclusion of all into the media in even 4H exhibits for the LGBTQ+ kids there that need that support. Hugs. Scottie
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Hi Ten Bears. I understand, and agree. One of the things I find most distasteful is hypocrisy, in others and in myself. I’m just as susceptible, and so I do my best to keep my mouth shut about things until I understand them better, look at them from another perspective, etc. Sometimes my perspective and new information colors my opinion…. and sometimes I just get stubborn and territorial, believing my guy can do no wrong. And therein is something that makes me so surprised and disappointed — when someone changes their mind, or doesn’t.
I really hope we as a nation survive trump, and more, I hope we outgrow what he represents. Thank you for the comment!
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Hi Ten Bears. Yes I love that also. Really shows them for what they are. Little kids that think they get to insult and hit you but you can’t insult or hit them back. They run crying to the teacher. tRump is the entitled teacher’s pet kid that thinks he is golden and entitled to do anything he wants but runs to the teacher when someone hits him back. They claim tRump is the alpha male but he cries and whines more than any creature than I ever heard. Hell I was raped as young as 3 -4 year old until I left home at 17, had rubbing alcohol poured over my butthole and down over my tiny balls and penis, and I did not cry about it as much as he does even the smallest slight. Had my head / neck tied to a stair banister with my hands tied inside the rails or to them, blindfolded, and suffered the attacks of unknown blows, stuff suck up my ass, raped, had other hateful stuff done to me then, again from 3 to 7 going on 8 years old until we moved to where there were no stairs, and I never cried, begged, or pleaded like this wealthy pampered man who had everything he every wanted, what a wimpy asshole. I was taken to the ER by my grandfather after collapsing from malnutrition and he forced my AM to go with him. I coded that night, I was that close to death. I did not whine as much as this cult leader that never went hungry in his life like I did every damn day as a child. Yet they worship him, when he never had any inconvenience or hardship. Frankly Ten Bears, they are as much losers as he is. Hugs. Scottie
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Hi Ali. We have truly lost something special, haven’t we? We have lost the ability to be honest with others about the things that are important to us, and not because we aren’t secure in our position but because we fear alienating our friends and loved ones. Hugs. Randy
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Exactly!
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