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Honestly, I think I've hit my fuck-it point.
Whats the point of trying to stay informed, be aware of the world and make change anymore? The loudest idiot wins, facts dont matter, lives dont matter, right and wrong doesnt matter.
I think I'm done. I might play a game I dont really own in a house I can barely afford and just try to enjoy myself because taking all this shit seriously is gonna give me a fuckin aneurysm... I'm tired boss.
My exact same toughts after the mexican president was elected and they gave her party all the power
Can't speak for everyone. For me it's cause there are kids out there who didn't ask to be born into this and who will suffer greatly because of it. I can't abandon hope if it means stepping aside and letting the world do whatever they want to them.
I'm going to coast on my privilege of being a white male for a year and a half, then I will be back for the mid-terms. If America doesn't care, fuck 'em. I need a break.
Honestly, if you're in the US, best you can do is focus on your local community. Help out your neighbours, find like-minded people, stay active on the local level. There is almost 0 possibility for a normal person to make a difference on the national level, but you absolutely can on the local level.
It's a difficult time, and I am also struggling with issues around feeling defeated. However, a friend shared something with me that's really been helping. It's a lovely passage from a write up about hope, written during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire article is well worth the read, but I'll quote the particular passage below: https://lawliberty.org/j-r-r-tolkien-and-the-necessity-of-hope/#:~:text=After%20Gandalf%20and%20Pippin%20arrive,rightly%20anticipating%20what%20may%20be.
"After Gandalf and Pippin arrive in Minas Tirith, Beregond, one of the men of Gondor, explains, “Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green.” Hope may thus be drawn from what has been, as a means of rightly anticipating what may be."