The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

These are strange times in America.  The rest of the world is growing strange too.  Computers, cellphones, artificial intelligence – and no, I don’t mean Republicans – cloning, satellites, climate change, drone warfare – and no, I don’t mean Amazon deliveries.  The societal transitions are accelerating, the times, they are a chainging … fast.  When you hear folks say Make America Great Again, what they mean is stop these changes from happening, go back in time, I Like Ike … and Joe McCarthy, stop the sex changes, put gays back in their closets, teach white history, bring prayer — Christian prayer anyway — back into our schools.  Burn the witches!  Not just lock em up.

Folks are terrified of change now, folks are afraid of science now.  Hell, who isn’t?! Half the country worries about their jobs, their shrinking incomes, their kids’ future, global warming, Covid, monkey pox, nano trackers in their vaccine, immigration, inflation, world war 3.

If you’re a Democrat, you’re worried about Democracy itself, worried America will turn to nationalism, to authoritarianism, to totalitarianism, to Trumpism.  You’re thinking the Supreme Court just went rogue, that McConnell may be the devil incarnate, that Matt Gaetz will eventually become the Speaker of the House.  I know, we’re living in the Night of the Living Brain Dead.

But!  Before you build your zombie bunkers, consider this:  Obama was elected president.  I know, a long long time ago in a galaxy far from the America of today.  He said, quoting Martin Luther King, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”  There will be setbacks, there will be heartbreaks, there will be moments when you lose hope … but history is on your side.  Women can vote, gays are out of the closet, vaccines DO work, blacks will not return to Colored Only drinking fountains, coal mining jobs will go away … and we will not!

Gloom and doom will not prevail!  Optimism will!  Keep that in mind.  We’re the America that’s great.  We’re the party of the future, not the past.  We will prevail.  The future is what we choose to make it.  Spread the word, spread the word.  And whatever you do, go out and vote.

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