Thank you Jenny for this post. I alternate between despair and a determined feeling of taking the bull by the horns. I wish people (former lefties I’m talking to you) would stop the left/right shenanigans and understand that the old world is gone, never to return. Refusing to join hands with people you think are the devil because they voted for Trump (or listen to Bannon) is holding up what could be a real movement forward for all of us. I see ordinary people standing up at school board meetings and city council meetings and I understand that this is where Hope resides. It’s called populism.
I live in the US, and it's remarkable how many people in the last few months, both left and right, have become resigned to the decline of the US. Our embarrassing and horrifically bungled surrender in Afghanistan; the lack of any political will to enforce the border as two-million illegals flood in, this year alone; the ridiculous spending and forthcoming inflation; the resignation over the surge of violent crime since last summer; the rancorous argument over vaccine passports.
Even in my fairly affluent community, there is so much despondency about the state of the country.
Thank you Jenny for this post. I alternate between despair and a determined feeling of taking the bull by the horns. I wish people (former lefties I’m talking to you) would stop the left/right shenanigans and understand that the old world is gone, never to return. Refusing to join hands with people you think are the devil because they voted for Trump (or listen to Bannon) is holding up what could be a real movement forward for all of us. I see ordinary people standing up at school board meetings and city council meetings and I understand that this is where Hope resides. It’s called populism.
I live in the US, and it's remarkable how many people in the last few months, both left and right, have become resigned to the decline of the US. Our embarrassing and horrifically bungled surrender in Afghanistan; the lack of any political will to enforce the border as two-million illegals flood in, this year alone; the ridiculous spending and forthcoming inflation; the resignation over the surge of violent crime since last summer; the rancorous argument over vaccine passports.
Even in my fairly affluent community, there is so much despondency about the state of the country.