topcat
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Yeah. I won't talk to my sister because she's married to a trump cultist. I've asked her about her feelings and get nothing. She's "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" type, but she won't tell me that "I need you to understand, this is my family..." type of thing, but I don't hear it. So, I've divested myself from her family. I'm left with my brother, who see's as I do. It's the shits, but I have to live with my principles. I'm so glad that my parents are not here to witness this travesty. They went through the sacrifice of the Depression when young, then more of the same during WWII. For them to see a minority of the people turn this country into a dictatorship would kill them, anyway. I'd like to have my sister back.I think the first time I felt it was during the Apollo project. Everything on Earth seemed different whenever there was a man in space in those first years. I suppose it was even more pronounced in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Second World War - that feeling that we are all in this together and that all our lives all hang in the balance. More recently, there was 9/11 but it did not seem to have any positive side to it at all - just a gut punch. There was no challenge to overcome - just a deep black hole.
This viral episode is one of those times when there actually is some cultural upside; a re-examination of what makes a quality life.
Anybody who had the slightest sense knew it was coming - but why did it have to happen when American society was so fucked up? Trump's conspiracy theories and the things I hear from the people around me probably aren't that different from a lot of nonsense one might hear during the plague years.
In Ohio, the laws for take out liquor from bars have been liberalized. I am enjoying it. Yeah, you need to buy food to get a drink. A bag of chips is good for two 12 oz Mason-jar cocktails. Nothing beats a couple hours in a prairie looking up at the clouds with a couple of Moscow mules on a rare warm spring day. Moscow mules. Never drank em before. Probably won't drink them much in the future, but whenever I do I will probably think back to this spring and remember those who worked with shoulder to shoulder and smile.