This post is a downer. Sorry.
This past week’s fall out has left me very depressed, very angry. I’m feeling those younger violent angry feelings returning, those hopeless ruminations of indifference. We keep telling our young people that things get better, we keep telling ourselves that things get better. Is it a lie? Is it just a papering over of rotten cores and hollow promises?
Many years ago, many years ago…. I spoke with a young man who was giving up. Giving in. Done. I tried to tell him there was more, that there was something to hold on to, that there was hope. He cried on my shoulder, told me that he didn’t believe me but thanked me for trying. I heard later he died, in darkness and fear. He died alone. He never found that worth hope. Never found that worth holding on to.
I think of him now today and my head hurts. My heart hurts. I fear what could come. When so many strides have been taken, when so much ground has been fought over and won by blood and tears and lives lost to hate and bigotry, to think what can be lost by one fucking svengali churns my stomach.
I am ashamed, America. You knew better.
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Hi Randy. Great post and true. I am listening to the Sunday news shows I just couldn’t deal with yesterday. I like what Bernie Sanders said. tRump had an explanation for why lower incomes were hurting so bad. It was crazy. He blamed it on immigrants and eating your cats and dogs. Bernie said the dems did not give an explanation for lower incomes hurting, just kept telling them it was a good economy that was getting better. Bernie said the dems need to explain that it is greed and the power of billionaires. But he added that makes people in congress who are in the high upper incomes or corporate dems uncomfortable, so it is not talked about. I plan to do videos on all the shows and what I heard. I am making notes. Ron needs to finish working on my camera set up first.
Hope you had a good weekend. I started a massive project of moving my computers and rewiring everything. Looks much better but I am suffering horrible today. Hugs
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