This is going to be a short diary. I feel the rage and trying to control it, is making online experiences a nightmare, even here. There are some folks questioning every diary with grammar corrections, saying really strange things to even longtime writers including snarky comments to our wonderful staff writers.
People are upset.. I get that. I am upset but trying to be civil in this nightmare we are caught in created by a lying, vulgar, grifter and his koolaid minions or water carriers is making us snap at one another. While the media is calling for civility, it is really very hard. Staying offline works for a little while. Many of us need to vent because we are so tired of the orange nightmare is playing on our emotions. We surely do not need to turn on one another in many diaries. Some of us feel like we are being trampled by a herd of elephants.
Let’s just try and understand we feel pretty upset at this point and time in history and it is hot as Hell in areas of the country not just weather wise but also politically which feels like we are smothering. We are under attack from the inside and the outside. We sure don’t need snapping at one another here as well.
I don’t know what to say but people react differenly under extreme pressure of what they feel like is the unknown of our republic. Sometimes they misspeak or hear things in a state of shock blaring from neighbors and all sorts of media.
Damn this administration. I want to say for myself, I want to quit being on the defense about EVERYTHING Some of us who live in red areas are feeling the heat REAL bad with no encouragment except here and other sites. Some of us are fighting once friends, former classmates, close family members and buckling up is still giving us one hell of a bumpy ride. We should not be snapping at one another here and I see it and have experienced it myself. It should not be.
We need to stand together to overcome this evil that has gripped this nation.
Peace ! I mean WE progressives need to come together and speak with one voice. Forget converting the right..Forget the Bernie/Hillary primary fights and let’s speak loud with ONE VOICE. Quit repeating the divisive talking points. Quit bowing down to their whips of verbal abuse coming from the right and direct the anger where it belongs. I for one am gonna fight like Hell for my kids and my grandkids, especially harder when some are being gaslighted by the constant Orange thing. Don’t call people out as being hyperbolic. This is a real dangerous time and we better realize that. Don’t cower. Go to the marches.. Get involved.
Register voters and vote but do your part of fighting for your country...without violence but don’t cower, obey or hide.
Take time out when necessary but don’t feel they have won. Pendulums swing but not without someone pushing it. We let the fascists get away with too much for too long. We are not snowflakes. We are a blizzard. A HUGE storm.