I was listening to a book today of Rachel Held Evans blog posts from the mid-2000s talking about the awful things going on in the first Trump administration and I was just thinking . . . Rachel, you have no idea how much worse things will get. The pace of this worsening is picking up too and I just wonder if we will ever come back from this. What is the point of no return. What will be be able to salvage, and what will be gone forever. And, how will we grow from this. We had a visit this week from a dear friend who lives in Minneapolis and she was talking about how just about everyone she knows is involved in helping in some way--taking food to folks too scared to leave their homes, surrounding schools so that ICE can't follow kids home to use them as bait, etc. Maybe that spirit will be what we can take forward in some way.
One of the things I remember from Election Night 2016 was of course the initial shock, but also the secondary shock of discovering that so many of my friends and fellow volunteers voted for him- and not in a, “Sorry, I just couldn’t vote for Hillary way,” but a very enthusiastic way- an enthusiasm that has continued to surprise me, to today. The tertiary shock comes from the chokehold he has on their support- despite the millions of lives lost during the pandemic, the lives lost around the world due to the axing of USAID, and the lives currently being lost in the Middle East. 50,000 US troops have been deployed. When the economy collapses, I wonder who they will blame.
I was listening to a book today of Rachel Held Evans blog posts from the mid-2000s talking about the awful things going on in the first Trump administration and I was just thinking . . . Rachel, you have no idea how much worse things will get. The pace of this worsening is picking up too and I just wonder if we will ever come back from this. What is the point of no return. What will be be able to salvage, and what will be gone forever. And, how will we grow from this. We had a visit this week from a dear friend who lives in Minneapolis and she was talking about how just about everyone she knows is involved in helping in some way--taking food to folks too scared to leave their homes, surrounding schools so that ICE can't follow kids home to use them as bait, etc. Maybe that spirit will be what we can take forward in some way.
One of the things I remember from Election Night 2016 was of course the initial shock, but also the secondary shock of discovering that so many of my friends and fellow volunteers voted for him- and not in a, “Sorry, I just couldn’t vote for Hillary way,” but a very enthusiastic way- an enthusiasm that has continued to surprise me, to today. The tertiary shock comes from the chokehold he has on their support- despite the millions of lives lost during the pandemic, the lives lost around the world due to the axing of USAID, and the lives currently being lost in the Middle East. 50,000 US troops have been deployed. When the economy collapses, I wonder who they will blame.