Current events (politics)
Jan. 4th, 2026 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetAs bad as Trump's first term was, this one is just... so unspeakably worse.
A part of me wants to dwell on placing blame, on shouting at every leftist and so-called progressive who refused to vote for Harris. But that's not useful right now.
How I feel those who refused to vote for Harris is immaterial, as is how they feel about their own votes (or lack thereof). I hope instead that they have learned their lesson, as some of them actually may not have even after 2016.
More than that, I hope that there will still be a chance for them learning their lesson to be useful.
Enough of this for now; I need to go digging for some hope.
A part of me wants to dwell on placing blame, on shouting at every leftist and so-called progressive who refused to vote for Harris. But that's not useful right now.
How I feel those who refused to vote for Harris is immaterial, as is how they feel about their own votes (or lack thereof). I hope instead that they have learned their lesson, as some of them actually may not have even after 2016.
More than that, I hope that there will still be a chance for them learning their lesson to be useful.
Enough of this for now; I need to go digging for some hope.
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Date: 2026-01-05 10:24 am (UTC)This really is the bad timeline :( I did not have 'USA and Russia team up to become the Nazis they once beat,' as any kind of expectation in my life.
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Date: 2026-01-06 02:31 am (UTC)That said, The Daily Show is new tonight, and I am fully expecting Jon Stewart to go apeshit about having covered what's going on in Venezuela twenty years ago already.
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Date: 2026-01-06 10:44 am (UTC)That is the only thing I'm finding comforting about it. We found a way out the other side last time, maybe we will again.