U.S. Election 2024
Nov. 13th, 2024 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptSo. It looks like Grover Cleveland's unique achievement will no longer be unique. The satirists at the Onion have it figured out: America Defeats America. And while we will hear an awful lot about who is responsible for this and what happened, see whether or not that coverage ever points the finger at white men and white women, because they're the racial group that contributed the most to this situation coming to pass. Sure, worry about how things turned out with other demographics, but as someone suggested to me, "Come get your white people." Which would involve a lot of people in that demographic having to vote against their privileges, or for giving up some of those privileges so everyone else gets more of a say.
Captain Awkward has advice for us about managing family gatherings, most of which boil down to "do the thing that will make you the most happy," because, unfortunately, even when we set up the perfect dramatic exit and the last moral word, the moral reprobates generally do not see the light and change their ways.
Going around my circles both here on Dreamwidth and elsewhere, has been a list of ten things to do to prevent the expansion of fear, isolation, exhaustion, and disorientation, all of which can make it easier for the strongman to do his work.
A.R. Moxon, verified duck, offers suggestions on how to defeat the fascist: do what the fascist cannot. Do not do what the fascist desires. Refuse the offer of alliance with the fascist. Which are small statements with nearly infinite possible permutations, depending on who you are and where you exist in relation to the fascists.
For people who follow Christianity, and not the political movement that masquerades itself as Christianity, the example of Fred Rogers, Presbyterian minister and advocate for the good that television could do, gives two principles, both of which must be followed for things to go well. Those principles are that you are a blessed child of God, and that everyone else is also a blessed child of God. The first is easy to remember and act upon. The second? A lot of people are forgetting it, or choosing not to see it.
If you want to keep your doomscrolling in check, What The Fuck Just Happened Today keeps tabs on the various things as they go, but even it says "Read in moderation," because there's going to be more than enough outrage to go around. (It did alert me to the presence of a meme entity being headed by shitlords, which was funny, in the sense of "of course they did that" and which probably ill not be funny when it decides that the government needs to be run more like the social media company that one of the chiefs bought and then dumped raw radioactive sewage onto.)
There are bright spots - Delaware's Sarah McBride will be the first out trans person serving in the United States House, for example.
For the most part, however, there's a lot of bracing for impact, even if the specifics of how all of that will go down is not yet known. I fear more for the people around me than for myself, because the people around me are more obviously visibly Other than I am, and I cannot protect them all. While I hope that I will not engage in cowardice, I certainly know I am capable of what I believe is strategic decision-making. Time, I suppose, will judge us all about what we did or did not do.
Captain Awkward has advice for us about managing family gatherings, most of which boil down to "do the thing that will make you the most happy," because, unfortunately, even when we set up the perfect dramatic exit and the last moral word, the moral reprobates generally do not see the light and change their ways.
Going around my circles both here on Dreamwidth and elsewhere, has been a list of ten things to do to prevent the expansion of fear, isolation, exhaustion, and disorientation, all of which can make it easier for the strongman to do his work.
A.R. Moxon, verified duck, offers suggestions on how to defeat the fascist: do what the fascist cannot. Do not do what the fascist desires. Refuse the offer of alliance with the fascist. Which are small statements with nearly infinite possible permutations, depending on who you are and where you exist in relation to the fascists.
For people who follow Christianity, and not the political movement that masquerades itself as Christianity, the example of Fred Rogers, Presbyterian minister and advocate for the good that television could do, gives two principles, both of which must be followed for things to go well. Those principles are that you are a blessed child of God, and that everyone else is also a blessed child of God. The first is easy to remember and act upon. The second? A lot of people are forgetting it, or choosing not to see it.
If you want to keep your doomscrolling in check, What The Fuck Just Happened Today keeps tabs on the various things as they go, but even it says "Read in moderation," because there's going to be more than enough outrage to go around. (It did alert me to the presence of a meme entity being headed by shitlords, which was funny, in the sense of "of course they did that" and which probably ill not be funny when it decides that the government needs to be run more like the social media company that one of the chiefs bought and then dumped raw radioactive sewage onto.)
There are bright spots - Delaware's Sarah McBride will be the first out trans person serving in the United States House, for example.
For the most part, however, there's a lot of bracing for impact, even if the specifics of how all of that will go down is not yet known. I fear more for the people around me than for myself, because the people around me are more obviously visibly Other than I am, and I cannot protect them all. While I hope that I will not engage in cowardice, I certainly know I am capable of what I believe is strategic decision-making. Time, I suppose, will judge us all about what we did or did not do.
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