8/26/21
I give up. I didn't know what my last straw was going to be on hope for "my" America to return, but last week was it - and I didn't expect that.
Seeing Kabul in Afghanistan fall to the Taliban in 10 days after the American military started to pull out and seeing the Afghans clinging to plane wings and falling to their deaths....gave me PTSD from my childhood visions of leaving Saigon. And I fell apart.
I stopping being able to eat or sleep. I had to pull out my anxiety meds full time. Trying to live a normal life and work (amid a shitshow of audits that had me pissed anyway) and getting Ben ready for his last year of school. And yesterday was the first day I didn't need to take any Xanax.
This morning...suicide bombers at the Kabul airport kill American civilians and military..and no response from the White House for hours.
I was hoping after the horror of the Trump years, at least Biden wouldn't do anything horrible. Up til now, he had done awesome with vaccinations, the American Rescue act to help pandemic money issues and trying to get legal voting rights back to all Americans.
And then he blew this bad. Very bad. Enough where I'm pretty sure the Republicans can spin this and win in 2022 and 2024. And that's the end. No decent person in either party can save us at this point. We're done.
I'm pretty sure than in 4 to 8 years we'll be back to a full Jim Crow/idiocracy/autocracy/theocracy.
What a disaster. Our worship of capitalism won over our love of democracy. Democracy lost. :(
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