AND a kakistocracy! We certainly are not a democracy anymore. Most women haven't felt that way for a few years now. It's just right now, more people from more segments of society are losing what they considered their rights and freedoms.
I say we're not a democracy because the words of the people don't make any difference. You had an election recently? Prove to me that Musk and trump and others didn't "fix" it for him to win. I don't care what was said prior to this last election, and I don't care who said it. I say prove THIS one to me.
Our own party won't listen to its constituents and instead votes to side with the axis of evil. Just 10 people? Where are the hundred plus+ screaming bloody murder to every outlet at all times and in all ways... if it takes a bunch of these politicians to stand on street corners with signs explaining what's going on... because they can't get on TV? Then they should do it! This is an existential crisis. I'm 69... I have what? 20+ years to live, maybe, if I'm really lucky? The idiots that don't do anything about this right now are facing decades more living under what North Koreans call "normal." And the ones in government now are trying to kill me off with the next few years, if not earlier. We've had maybe 4-6 democrats trying to push the narrative, and that's all I've seen. But then, I do live in a stupid red state.
I just don't understand why the Democratic and Independent parties aren't screaming the bloody murder over what is happening to everyone, everywhere, every minute every day! And yet, I still get emails and even written literature begging for money. Money to do what? They have more money than I do by a long shot. And yet I feel like I'm doing more in my little microverse to combat trumpism than they are doing with all that power at their hands.
I'm feeling despondent at the sheer lunacy of it all. I'm feeling lost in frustration at what IS being done by those who do evil, and what ISN'T being done by those who say they're on "our side." And now I have to watch my mouth because I could be declared a victim of TDS, when I think it's the magats who are suffering from TDS. Up is down; black is white; and Life, itself, feels as cheap as it was during the Dark Ages. Only oligarchs have the money and freedom to do all they want, whenever they want, to whomever and whatever they want. We just try to hang on to what little we have in hope of affording a little bit of hamburger for protein. Yeah... I say we're no longer a democracy. Even those who keep track of these things on the worldwide front agree. We were recently taken out of that running. And yet, I haven't seen any headlines about that in any of these great newspapers or on TV. So, we most definitely are living under censorship already. If you're not a white, male, christian of the right type, your history is being actively erased. How long before they actually erase you?!
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