If you read this book, you will see the underlying power structure everywhere you go. You will also see why the hard right wing conservatives are working long and hard to undermine every bit of the rights that have been hard won for immigrants, POC and women over our lifetimes. Did I mention I recommend this book. The world could be a better place if more people read it and became aware of and changed this caste system in America.
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson: 9780593230275 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
#alitomustrecuse
In 2020, when the pandemic started and the whole country was in distress, my husband turned our backyard flag upside down. "Country in distress" is the meaning. It was long since taken down, especially as good leadership prevailed. Distress is variable and relative. For me distress is right wing conservatives taking rights away from us. For them, distress must be the opposite, liberal rights for all and the rule of law.
Our problems are deep division. Buckle up and hold onto your hats. It's going to be a bumpy ride this year.
#prochoice
Get this clearly, Florida women have just lost their rights to make their own choices about their reproductive healthcare.
In the year 2024, Female citizens are losing their rights.
All over the country,
Women are losing their rights.
The republicans have lost their minds, saying they don't want "big government" then they go massive and subtract the rights of taxpaying citizens.
Lost their minds.
Women, boycott republicans, if you know what I mean. They want to force their offspring on us. Be aware.
#spring #happiness #BeautyInNature
Angus Martin, artist and thinker, said "the measure of your life is the amount of beauty and happiness of which you are aware" rings true for me... these little beauties are blooming. I repotted them in the fall in fresh orchid mix, after trimming their dead roots and here is their response.
#CantWeAllJustGetAlong
No.
I was exposed to Steve Bannon this week, staying with my dying father and watching tv with him. WOW. SB is literally at war, literally with democrats, liberals. His rants include descriptors like "evil" and "unhuman" to name a few. Everything he is saying about "evil unhuman democrat communists" is a projection of what he and his fellow guests are doing. He is obsessed with trolling the Morning Joe program and Rachel Maddow. He loves and promotes Franco.
It's so extreme, so toxic, so bitter and on his show breaks, he sells his special war coffee. Lol. Comic relief.
#election2024
I have every hope for a electoral defeat of the modern Republicans and their fascist, misogenist, racist, dictatorial and antiprogressive agendas.
However, as I look at how how many people exist across the country who support that pov, I am deeply heartsick and anxious with concern. It is grievous to witness that even in just midterm elections, that people vote affirmatively for the demise of their own freedoms and well being via right wing extreme politicians.
The SCOTUS recent behaviors have added to the great ache and fear of what may be a crushing loss of what I always counted on in USA; which is the "justice for all" ideal and yes, it's an ideal, but I hold onto it, I seek to live by it.
Part of me is preparing for loss. I look to history and look for, "how did people get through authoritarianism" How did people resist when freedom was lost? How did women terminate pregnancy before legal abortion?
Are we in "Don't know what you've got till it's gone" territory? Replies appreciated
#ukraine
How is this even happening that one loser (tfg) is puppetmastering the House and pulling these traitorous moves that threaten the entire worlds' stability by withholding funding for Ukraine to defend itself. FFFS,
It is a nightmare for and ultimately for us, if NATO has to join the war to protect more countries from Putin's greed fest.
Tfg's power trip is destroying the this country and the world at large.
Go away, get out, leave.
Thank you mastodon peeps for bringing the truths... with facts come anxiety/fear... i am caught up in the collective anxiety attack of those watching the coming election and all it means to the future of democracy itself, holding on to basic civil rights, etc. I am completely overwhelmed by what I cannot control. I have one vote.
To cope, I remind myself what goes on after terrible losses. Life finds a way. Flowers still bloom, cats still purr. Little things.
Our ego, or sense of self, becomes attached to being right in the same way it becomes attached to various roles, groups, and identities. Being right allows us to feel superior to others whereas being wrong makes us feel inferior. When our sense of self, our psychological projection of who we are, is being threatened, we defend โ or even go on the attack. Right or wrong, win or lose, it becomes a zero-sum game.