Four years of feeling the walls crumbling around you and nothing could be done. You could see others like you, feeling the same way as you, and nothing could be done. Four years of watching science be attacked, the climate crisis be mocked, illegal activity be brushed aside and scoffed at. Four years of insults and lies. Four years of chaos.
What to expect on a day like today
Tomorrow is election day. And I’m tired. Deeply tired. Tired of arguing, tired of fighting. Tired of screaming about things I shouldn’t have to scream about. I just want to lie down. For a moment, for any amount of time just to catch my breath.
Cult of Personality is defined when the country’s regime uses mass media, propaganda, lies, patriotism and demonstrations to create a vision of their leader as heroic and to be worshipped. We see it all the time in nations that we would normally denounce.
I feel like we are all Jack and Rose on the stern of the Titanic as it is about to sink into the sea. We cling to the rail as tight as we can and watch the carnage below. We catch the eye of another scared passenger and wonder how we got here. Just a short while earlier we thought…
You stand for what you believe in, regardless if you will succeed. You stand for those who can’t. You stand for those who stood before you and are gone, tired, or need your help. You stand against the odds for what is right. Even if you are scared. Even if you are outnumbered. You stand. You stand as you march,…
I wish we lived in a country where a Donald Trump presidency would never be possible. Not because of anything sinister or illegal or because we changed the rules to block him but because the people of the United States understood that Donald Trump represents everything wrong with our country and chose to not vote for him. I wish we…
Pump Up the Volume has always been one of my favorite movies. The story of a lonely, scared teenager who finds a way to vent his frustrations about the world around him through a pirated radio station. And what starts off as a way for him to deal with his own issues, begins to inspire and help others who were…