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I Feel Hopeless and Helpless Today
The death of RBG has devastated me
I am depressed. I’m too depressed to even run this through Grammarly; if it it is peppered with errors, so be it.
I’m 72 years old. When I was in my twenties, I was liberal, but didn’t like the “welfare state”. I still don’t, but I realize now that the answer to its problems is UBI.
The Dems always had a decent plank. The GOP seemed only to care about big business and money. I voted Dem, often with a sigh and regret because the actual never came close to the ideals, but for a while it seemed we were making progress.
Progress has been pistol whipped, robbed, kicked, beaten, and left to die in the brush by the side of the road.
I’m sickened. RBG has died, so our SJC will soon be a rubber stamp for the worst human behaviors. Trump will either be re-elected or will throw our country into chaos fighting his defeat.
If Biden wins, so what? He’s no champion of liberal causes and either is his party, except on paper. I see very little difference between the Democratic Party actions and the GOP. There is some, of course, and that some is in important places, but it’s not enough.
Hope? I don’t see any. Third party candidates have no chance in our system. It’s almost impossible for anyone to run for office without being wealthy, and the wealthy usually have no comprehension of the struggles the rest of us face.
I am not going to function well today. I have chores to do; they will not get done. This is a day of mourning.
