I'm so upset

[wyld_dandelyon]

It is a constant drain on my energy and focus to know that our government is currently being run by evil men. It is so very hard seeing that there are still Americans who support those men, who don't see that they are doing evil or don't care. It is hard to believe that all of the phone calls and other work I'm doing is making enough of a difference.

And the bad men keep ramping up their evil. A friend's husband, who is very sick with multiple conditions, just had a doctor decide to stop prescribing one of his medicines, in between visits and with no explanation. They think it's due to some new policy of our GOP governor. The man who lost the popular vote, but got elected anyway, has ordered our government to take small children away from their parents, with no plan to ever give them back, no way to even track which children belong to which parents. Reportedly, some of the parents have been deported while the children remain here.

This horror has been brought to us by "the family values party."

Mind you, at least one parent told a reporter, "They can deport me, I'll be killed, but at least my daughter will be safe if she's allowed to stay here." I bet the daughter would not be so happy about that result, if we could find her and ask her.

All of this makes it hard to write fiction, hard to do art or music. Heck, it makes it hard to want to open my eyes and get up in the morning. This isn't the reality I want to live in.

But I'm not going to stop fighting this madness. And I'm not going to stop writing and arting and making music. The creative stuff will just be slower, I'm afraid.

Comments

[red_trillium]

I hear you on this. While I'm a little more insulated living over here, it doesn't mean we don't hear about it. I've got some liberal info sources I get emails from and have liberal friends on FB posting about this stuff so I keep up with many of the horrors that this Bad Man and his regime are pushing out. It pisses me off and it galvanises me. I managed to get onto a GOP email list (by filling in a survey someone on my friends list posted -- you?? Or someone else??) by His Royal D-S, "tell me what you think of my first 500 days". He only gives multiple choice questions, tries to word the so they sound good. THere were a few I did put "agree" with, some "no opinion" and a good whack of "disagree". I knew if I put all "disagree" it wouldn't make it through their filters for responses and they'd just toss mine out.

For a person who harps on about "Fake News", I can guess that the "My approval rating is higher than the media tell you" is because he gets his figures from internal surveys.

[wyld_dandelyon]

He is quite the liar.

Too bad that's not his worse vice.

[kailing]

*listens, supports*

[wyld_dandelyon]

Thank you!

[pyraxis]

Your friend needs to find a new doctor....

I think you're doing good work, and I hope you don't let the condition of the USA get you down too far. Creative work is important, and so is replenishing yourself, and they can be one and the same.

I don't suppose it helps, but looking in from the outside, a lot of the rest of the world is watching in horror and disgust too.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I hope I'm doing good work. No, let me put that a different way. I know I'd doing what I'm doing at least reasonably well. I hope it's enough to make a difference despite all of the cheating crap (voter IDs, gerrymandering, etc.) that the GOP has been doing and all the lies they've been telling.

As to the rest of the world, I hope that they remember that this President lost the popular vote. The majority of American people are better than this, and are embarrassed and horrified about what's being done in our name.

I agree that creative work is important. That doesn't make it any easier to get started. And it takes a certain amount of mental bandwidth to be creative, so it isn't at all helpful that I feel that as a moral human being I have to pay attention and keep fighting.

[pyraxis]

Yeah... I know what you mean about mental bandwidth.

[mount_oregano]

I can keep writing fiction, but the story is about to become much more angry.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I hear you.

A favorite song may help

[zeeth_kyrah]

"In Western Lands" is definitely a song for shadowed times.

[acelightning]

Despair is what they want you to feel! They're trying to make us believe we are powerless to stop them, so we'll just give up. JOY is subversive! Dress in bright colors and sparkles, eat spicy "immigrant" foods, and SING AS LOUD AS YOU CAN! Sing "We Shall Overcome", "The Mary Ellen Carter" "Bread And Roses", "The Times They Are A-changin'",sing Omnia's "Freedom Song", sing C.W. McCall's "Kidnap America"!

I was a hippie - I belong to the generation that ended a war, and forced a sitting president to quit in fear of impeachment, by doing those things. It worked then, and I think we can fool the current idiot-in-chief the same way. Just let your freak flag fly, and SING LOUD!