(#6300) If only this was the calm before the storm!

      For me, this time feels like a term used in baseball. The dog days of August. Where all the teams are weary from a lot of games played and the temperatures are hot to boot! This political climate is similar to me in that I am weary and it is still just May. We have 6 months to go before we can change the dynamic of this horrendous time. Then two months after that before we actually get to implement our change. The usual framework for our national politics is the candidates are well into their strategies for winning. Yet not this time when so much is still up in the air as to district boundaries all over the nation. The Virginia case as a prime example.
     As the high court there continues to mull a decision about the legitimacy of a vote to change district boundaries, the candidates are left in limbo. Where now also the United States not supreme court has opened the door to racial gerrymandering many republican states are now changing their district boundaries to exclude minority vote. To keep up with this advantage republicans sought, democrats must also consider changing boundaries so as mot to get bushwhacked by this republican abhorrence. Too many candidates for federal office are not even sure where or if they can run for office. The republican party has turned our natural election season into a clear clusterfuck! So no rest there!
     It is bad enough that trump spends everyday attacking the working middle poor class, minorities, women, old folks, children, our allies, and even his own supporters. I feel like everyday I am inside a clothes dryer on a cycle set to infinity! Yet I am a survivor! Whatever it takes to keep breathing and moving forward while keeping my honor and principles intact is my charge. Because each day I wake up and he is still punishing us is another day behind us that we have survived. He is running out of days to break us. Even though he is grinding us down as he can he is also grinding himself down from the sheer volume of his recklessness. I yearn for the calm to return. But it can't return until the time of trump is diluted or stopped.