Quitter

Someone called it - maybe it was the Rude Pundit, someone I first discovered all those years ago here on blogger, where I first started ranting and raving about politics some time in 2004. So many people are leaving the platform, they’re calling it “Quitter.” I wouldn’t know, as I have taken that platform out of my rotation since “the takeover.” It’s been great for my mental health. I don’t need the daily outrage. For the moment, my Instagram and Facebook feeds seem to be devoid of daily outrage. And I’m okay with that. I’m weary of daily outrage. I know I’m not supposed to say that. Aren’t I a political animal? I studied political science, after all. Right? I also studied English Literature but I tend to read non-fiction. I once played in bands but I barely pick up an instrument these days. I used to drink and make new friends bonding through drinking. So many things I’ve given up in these recent years. I can certainly do without Twitter. My number one priority right now is to make sure I am there to help my daughters grow into healthy, happy human beings. Don’t get me wrong - people will always know where I stand - and that stands for real freedom, not the fascist, nationalist, pro-confederate terrorist death cult that calls itself the Republican Party (in name only, get it?) today. 

While I am hopeful the conventional wisdom of the current media and pollsters are underestimating the chance that people like us, who are sick of all the relentless bullshit and lies that are spewing out of seemingly every corner of the airspace and webspace (and traditional media like the NYTimes and NPR - Nice Polite Republicans, as I hear them called these days), let’s just say I have serious doubts and am not hopeful that we are about to narrowly avoid two out of three branches of our government falling to fascism this time around (with the third soon to follow). As the right have been crying about how the last round of elections are rigged, in so doing they are masking the fact that they are the ones who have been doing the rigging. And I’m afraid things are going to get a whole lot worse before they ever get better. And things have certainly been bad over the course of the last five years - with a slight respite these past two - breathing room, you might say. I don’t feel the need to patronize the likes of Elon Musk, one of many robber barons on steroids that the progressives at the turn of the last century worked so hard at to begin to eliminate. I mean - duh, lower the taxes on the rich, the rich keep that $ largely to themselves, making $ off of $ until they consolidate power, at first an oligarchy until, eventually, if left unchecked, and through wars, at long last, aristocracy and monarchy. Common sense right? Don’t bother telling that to the GQP and their stupid ass followers. 

We’ll see. Casting my ballot some time this week. And then - pray? Hope for the best? Expect the worst?