I’m battling for coherency!
No. That isn’t true. I just have a lot to think about and say. I presently live in a state that is focused on rolling back laws to a time it wasn’t even a state in pursuit of a religious crusade against abortion. Only I feel like Abortion is not even the end game. Even if it isn’t I am trying to halt the process right there. Once we start taking away women’s rights we have entered some crazy. I am very much done with entertaining that particular brand of crazy. It feels more and more like the so-called chickens are coming home to roost in the sense of these plots and plans finally delivering because the ‘right people’ are in place.
What bothers me most of all is the telegraphing. When one side starts yelling about legislating from the bench and what have you, you can be certain that this is what they want to do. When they started yelling about various democratic presidents acting like dictators and socialists you can be sure they themselves want to enact powers to allow for this. So long as they get what they want then screw what happens (foundationally) to the country and her people. I’m tired and saddened by what is going on, and I truly fear the coming election is not going to make it any better.
If Biden wins, Trump will yell for years about it being stolen again, and this time people might be so riled up that they go beyond what happened on Jan. 6th and really do something stupid and crazy. If Trump wins he will enact four years of revenge politics that will set our nation back worse than it did last time, and all the while his supporters will either be quietly or loudly complicit as their version of the news soothes them by saying this is better while at the same time riling them up about something else because fear politics, fear economics, and fear governance is the name of the game for them.
We won’t hear about shutting down the government (like we do every few months) we will hear about the terrible things (including jail time) that should be done to the people who disagree with their party and slow down their agenda in any way. We’ve moved past negotiation and conversation to a political state of us vs. them and winner takes all. Only in such a state there are only the losers–that’s us folks.
And now…
Some Thoughts:
- Shutting it down for today. I’ve done okay for myself in the writing space. I worked for hours on this novel and got back on track especially in terms of mindset and understanding of where the story is taking me. I am working on multiple projects and teaching, so all of those things deserve my time as well. However, the key is balance. In that sense I need to be smart about how I use my day and in terms of that I need to be good to my partner first and foremost.
- Writing should not be a divider in my life but it feels as such more and more. I think it is because I don’t have a natural sense of balance. I work until I don’t and really let everything else happen when it happens unless we put a specific plan in place to not to. This is how writers end up single, you know…