The Sheer Exhaustion of Winning

[tr0nic]

I keep trying to find the energy to try and illustrate to all of you how it feels being in this country right now. I don't even know where to begin with that. I carry my passport with me everywhere I go now, and my mom's NPR-donating, Honda CRV-driving soccer mom friends have been discussing what the heaviest possible firepower they can legally own is. I heard one of them describe Vladimir Lenin's writing as "very catty" in terms of how he talks about other Marxist thinkers of his time. This is a woman that told me ten years ago that Bernie Sanders had no chance at winning, and now she is quoting Lenin and Mao and cheering for more Luigis and warehouse burnings. I feel vindicated. I feel exhausted.

So that's where I'm at right now. Somehow my city has not had significant ICE actions, which I feel very lucky for at the moment. But it's any day now. All of it, the whole house of cards, this whole fucking joke of an imperialist shitshow, it's any day now and everyone is saying it and feeling it.

The right wing is trying to weasel their way out of responsibility for this mess we're in, and the dems are telling their voters about how evil Hasan Piker is. Joke country.