I'm sorry, but I can't laugh. My country, my deeply flawed democracy, is dying. Liberals have the political courage of lime jello, and the left yet again couldn't agree on pizza toppings without splitting into 14 screaming factions. I'm heartbroken.
I am so tired of being right there with you, but I can almost what's on that next plane existence and surely it can't be worse than this. right? right?
My stepdad called me to work through his political feelings today. He's an engineer of the Silent Generation so this is not something I hear from him a lot. I think I cheered him up but I'm not sure it worked on me yet.