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ya too....and you have written such a painful thing to write so very well.

The rest of his piece is at the link. I've edited the thread title to make it clearer that I am not the author. He does write some very good essays.

Long time lurker, second time poster. I guess I was a bit trigger happy on the post because the writing resonated so much with me, and I feel ready to start contributing a bit.

Pavlovitz is someone to follow, even if you aren't religious. He always has something profound to say.

there are articles that have me shedding tears, damn near every day.

yup

I'm not scared and I'm not going anywhere.

I’ve done it. It works.

I’ve stopped posting on Facebook or Twitter (or scrolling thru others‘ posts). I’m back to reading again— newspapers, magazines, books; both fiction and non- fiction.
I’m also volunteering for key campaigns in my state, plus of course Joe Biden.

It’s much less stressful and it just might, you know, help save our democracy.

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are particularly aggressive. I have used this metaphor to describe the racists in this country before.

I don't claim to know why wasps become so agitated with the waning days of summer. It's only my imagination that plays with the idea that they know that their time on earth is limited, so they sting while they can no matter how high the cost.

It is going to get a LOT WORSE before it gets better.

Electing Obama twice showed us what we can aspire to, but since politics is a pendulum, many on the other side were SERIOUSLY pissed it was pushed that far, and they SHOVED as hard as they could the other way.

What is interesting in hindsight is that shove was actually pretty weak, and the most vocal of Trumpy's defenders are truly a small minority.

The middle of the road electorate, which is a significant number of Americans, I feel has had just about enough of this bullshit, and will make the necessary changes. But the lesson was learned, I think.

Shoving that pendulum too hard in the future can get us another Trumpy.

Or worse, a Pence clone.

We just need more and more women in state houses and national positions.