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this has maybe gone on longer than I've been aware, but looking at the last twenty years or so of national events I get the feeling everything happening more than a single mile away from me is completely fake
reading too much news probably. but how can i not? people are losing their jobs and then their homes, we have to wear masks to go to the grocery, the land is burning which makes the air around us into the equivalent of 16 cigarettes
I'm in the city that's pound-for-pound pushing the hardest against the forces driving these events, yet the police don't agree with the people's definition of justice (called newly-elected DA "antifa"),
the mayor can't hold officers accountable and 'accidentally' exposed people to months of federal prosecution by deputising officers on, basically, a lark,
the governor 'says her name' but acts in lockstep with the harshest ideas on punishment for speech and gives no ground to reform,
and even though the ruling *family* is almost universally understood to be mind-bendingly inept, corrupt and beyond salvation, for all intents and purposes they're still taken at their word when it comes to negotiating future policy
not because people want them to be or think their ideas have any merit, but because they're in the club. they're in moneyland. they're at the grown-up table.
they don't even have money. they owe millions of dollars in taxes because their businesses have been failing for decades. longer than I've been alive. but they touch money, so they're more qualified than any of us
and now the guy finally got the lethal virus he helped everybody spread. big deal.
the ideal would be for him to live and face consequences along with every other patsy in every concentric circle that allowed this to get so far.
but I think we know that's beyond the realm of possibility.
but I think we know that's beyond the realm of possibility.
best case realistic scenario: Biden elected, people relieved, ballots *mostly* uncontested, masks urged more aggressively, vaccine next spring/summer, masks unnecessary by 2022, public health *option*, investments to manage wildfires & lower waste…
there's more, but even that best case scenario doesn't include police reform (let alone mass-defunding), prosecution for high crimes by the administration (even as preventative measure for future officials) or the kind of change we need to prevent the world from lighting on fire
if you got this far: thanks for reading, sorry I'm becoming such a crank. let me know if i missed anything or am way off base
