The title of this blog is named for how I saw the world just 9 some short years ago. We elected our first person of color to the presidency and all things at the time seemed possible. What I didn't know was the deepness of the hatred in so many of us and it's ability to manifest itself into a dark and tumultuous place. Our first president of color, half black/half white, was vilified like no other president in our history and it was from the far right wing of the republican party where all the prejudice and while we are at it, misogyny reside. The terror riddled narrative they propagated was brutish and beneath contempt! Yet they prospered in that they drew many millions to their cause and disrupted one of our overall better president's agenda.
I was about to feel a little bit better after our president surviving his 8 years in office without an incident of dishonor nor personal abuse, when we were ready to elect our first woman president and by total votes actually did. However given the patriarchal nature of our electoral process we were denied that right. This is when my hope began to wane and dry up. Somehow through hook or crook the worst nightmare of a president was installed. My hope hit its bottom when he was able to seat a radical right wing judge on our supreme court. I began to rouse myself from this ghoulish nightmare but then a tax law was passed that was and is certain to further crumble our nation's economy. Hope fell off again to a despairing level.
But just as I was feeling as low as one can feel about the reality we in America and the world by extension were facing a new light began to shine on the horizon. The special elections that come between our major elections every 2 years began to show that our nation had awakened from our disinterest in politics to a nation that had only politics on its mind. Democrats were doing great where previously we struggled and republicans were declining where they previously were growing. A reversal from the normal of the last several election cycles invigorated many of us including me to the point now where I am back to being full of my hope for our nation and our ending this nightmare of trumps that began on November 8th, 2016.
I was about to feel a little bit better after our president surviving his 8 years in office without an incident of dishonor nor personal abuse, when we were ready to elect our first woman president and by total votes actually did. However given the patriarchal nature of our electoral process we were denied that right. This is when my hope began to wane and dry up. Somehow through hook or crook the worst nightmare of a president was installed. My hope hit its bottom when he was able to seat a radical right wing judge on our supreme court. I began to rouse myself from this ghoulish nightmare but then a tax law was passed that was and is certain to further crumble our nation's economy. Hope fell off again to a despairing level.
But just as I was feeling as low as one can feel about the reality we in America and the world by extension were facing a new light began to shine on the horizon. The special elections that come between our major elections every 2 years began to show that our nation had awakened from our disinterest in politics to a nation that had only politics on its mind. Democrats were doing great where previously we struggled and republicans were declining where they previously were growing. A reversal from the normal of the last several election cycles invigorated many of us including me to the point now where I am back to being full of my hope for our nation and our ending this nightmare of trumps that began on November 8th, 2016.
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