Sun Day

It's raining in New York City on Sun Day. 

Today my thinking has evolved to the anger that is empowering the obvious wrongs being perpetrated by the orange tinpot autocrat and his nerdy minions: Massive layoffs, deporting veterans, cutting everything in the government, cutting off aid that kills and starves people. It would be more acceptable to cut government from someone who wasn't lining their pockets, and selling offices, filling roles with incompetents. Kakocracy, lawlessness, ignoring the constitution, unscrupulous. If they would have told me in the 80's during Reagan that the USA would love Russia, hate Europe, not be for law and order, a rudderless autocracy, I would have been very surprised. We'd save millions by not allowing the president to play gold in Florida and line the pockets of his Nazi friend. Kanye is saying it out loud and people are aghast at him, but most people just ignore him. I hate my friend who didn't vote because he just couldn't be bothered. I don't like hating people. People just don't like politics, and while this is one reason why, it's a self fulfilling prophecy. I hate my own self defeating ways. 

It hurts to see so many people suffering. There are always a lot of people suffering, and the fighting back will be the silver lining, but it all just seems so unnecessary. 

How did we get here, what are the solutions? We need to understand the impact of social media. We need to support not tear down education. The right works to ruin education and voter suppression, I think more people need to participate. More people didn't vote than voted for that jerk. All the obese farmers who voted for him and now regret it are just so much noise, I can't get into the leopard ate my face schadenfreude.

Sometime you have a friend or even you take a wrong turn and go down a bad path. It's not so easy to turn the rig around. We're in the time of mounting problems. If you were listening, you heard the warnings. I tried to get people to vote, but my state didn't vote for him, so me being more successful doesn't change the results. I should return to places to influence people.