One of those can be fixed. The other…can’t.
Last year, like many other Democrats, I took action. I campaigned, responded to social media misinformation and donated money to candidates. I celebrated when Joe Biden was announced as the winner of the presidency and when Democrats took back the Senate.
I also wrote a book to remind myself — and all of us — that honesty was something that still mattered, despite having the most dishonest person imaginable leading our country. But now that Donald Trump is out of office, I’m facing a painful truth: The man I prayed would become president could sign a piece of legislation that would kill my career as a freelance writer.
It’s the strangest political cognitive dissonance I’ve ever experienced.
You’re being far too generous with yourself there with that “cognitive dissonance” diagnosis, sweetie. No worries, though, you can always fucking learn to code, right?
Right now, my party is pushing a bill called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, in an ostensible bid to help gig workers exploited by employers who won’t give them health care coverage and other benefits. But because of a problematic clause in the bill, it’s far more con than pro for me. The bill could end my ability to be my own boss, set my own hours and otherwise live the American worker’s dream.
Interesting. Despite being a Democrat-Socialist—even admitting that you celebrated when your crime syndicate masquerading as a political party stole an election and installed a corrupt, senile drooltard as pRetend pResident—you nonetheless seem very taken aback by certain home truths that are glaringly obvious to sane people. Let me try to enlighten you on just a few of those.
- “Honesty” is the absolute LAST thing that matters to your professed party
- The only thing your party gives a tinker’s damn about is power
- Your party’s politicians care not a whit about any trauma or tragedy their own pursuit of power might inflict, on you or anybody else
- The actions of your politicians are governed exclusively by expediency and effect; for them integrity, principle, patriotism, and empathy are NEVER of even minimal concern
- Your politicians, though bloated with arrogance and conceit, are completely clueless as to how national economies function. Their vanity assures them that vastly complex and intricate economic systems can be successfully micromanaged, in defiance of historical confirmation of their total inability to manage anything other than economic collapse and destruction—confirmation so voluminous as to be beyond calculation
That “cognitive dissonance” clearing up any for ya? Or are you, as I strongly suspect, still stuck on stupid?
Beyond that, all my colleagues and I have been hearing from Democrats in response to our concerns are talking points about how they are fighting for American workers. Don’t I count as an American worker?
Closer, but not there yet. Another hint: To them, you don’t count at all.
I know what I believe in — things like an end to systemic racism, better support for families and children, increased voting rights and equity in schools. Yet now I find myself looking at Democrats’ slogans and questioning my assumption that their bills truly help the people who need it most.
The dawn struggles valiantly to break, yet somehow darkness persists.
I recognize that I’ve bought into broad narratives about the power of the people, usually pushing the most progressive-minded, feel-good policies that have easily repeatable language about things like the “dignity of work.” But when you’re the one whose work is suddenly threatened, it’s a bit more complicated.
Yep, life is like that. Ain’t it a cast-iron bitch?
I’m still holding on to my idealistic Leslie Knope-ish tendencies. I still believe good ideas and earnest people will be heard. But right now, it feels like I’m being sacrificed for support from unions — the major interest group pushing this legislation. And given the vitriol my colleagues and I are getting on Twitter, like repeatedly being called “scabs,” I don’t think there’ll be any holiday cards this year.
I’m not looking for sympathy.
You may rest assured that I’ll not be offering any.
After all, I’m a well-paid professional with plenty of lucky breaks to my name. What I am looking for is to be heard by the party I always believed best appreciated the breadth and width of America.
Oh for God’s sake will you get a fucking clue. Instead of stubbornly “looking to be heard” by a party that isn’t listening, the thing you really need to be looking for is the intestinal fortitude to admit that what you “always believed” was patently false—a deliberate, cynical deception used for purposes of manipulation. After that you can move on from there, maybe. I wish you luck and all, but I won’t be holding my breath waiting for it.
- Entries
You will never rip her away from her liberal fascist beliefs. Better to let her starve to death. I would offer her exactly as much mercy as she would offer me. And we know how much that would be.
Death is nature’s way of cleansing the gene pool of stupid people.
So, just to be clear, this witch cares about nothing but herself. She doesn’t care if all the working people outside her “profession” starve and are sent to the gulag.
And she’s not that gullible. She knows the party she supports are liars and frauds. She doesn’t care because she thought she would be in the protected class.
I hope she starves to death, first.
Re: “the gulag”. Remember that Bernie’s campaign claimed the gulags “paid a living wage…”
I think willful stupidity should be painful. Sadly,this bint and her ilk are inflicting the pain on us.
That’s what I’ve been saying about Biden voters who suffered buyer’s remorse when they were screwed over almost immediately. I’m glad they’re losing their jobs and that some more favored minority group came out on top of them in the spoils sweepstakes. I’m just annoyed that I’m getting dragged down with them.
“Don’t I count as an American worker?”
No. You have to be an American first.