It’s sunny and it’s cold and you’re going to hear that a lot in January. That’s what I think of as a typical Chicago January day; sunny and cold.
It’s where we are.
And now that reality is setting in and fast approaching, people want magical solutions to make it not so. The solution was, as we said, very unmagical, very straightforward.
Vote.
Well people didn’t like that. They couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the Black South Asian woman; they were angry they weren’t given all the things on their list and also couldn’t be bothered to see if they really weren’t going to be given all the things on their list; they are filled with a hatred that outweighed their sense of self-preservation until it all became real.
The bitterness has not left me, it will probably not ever leave me, especially not once the wheels start rolling.
And yet in typical fashion, people who only had to vote and persuade other people to vote want to blame our president and vice president for not “doing more.”
When I read that, it sounds to me like they’d be fine with another attack on the Capitol as long as it’s their side doing it. They’d be fine with the baseless lawsuits as long as they’re on the side of the attempted delay.
There was one way out of this, America didn’t take it, and now no one else can fix it for us. No one else can even mitigate it for us, at least for two years, if ever we get the chance.
Shrugging us into this situation was a choice.
Now demanding someone “do something” is no more than a shout into the void.
If anyone has a good idea, by all means, get it to the right people but there is no magic button, there is no “undo,” there is only forward into another stretch few of us wanted to see again. I genuinely can’t believe anyone wants to see it again.
It’s where we are.
So it’s where we have to start from.
That’s it for me this Tuesday, have a great day.
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