A trailer…
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The other night, MSNBC ran a documentary of Peter Souza, who was the Obama admin photographer for eight years. It was so deeply moving that in parts of it, I cried for what we have lost in this country.
Souza really captured the beauty and humanity of Obama as a human being, a man, husband, father, and as president of the country. The documentary made me hunger for:
Waking up without checking my phone for the latest trump travesty
Living without a knot of anxiety in my gut about this election.
Not having to check on the latest numbers of new Covid cases in the country
The certainty of a president who knows what the hell he/she is doing
Not having to hear about the president every minute 24/7
Civility
Tolerance for our differences
Eloquence and integrity in a president’s words
No manipulation of info from the CDC, Homeland Security, or any other government agency
Normal life
That’s just for starters.
The challenge is that we don’t have a normal anymore. Trump has destroyed it politically, socially, culturally, judicially. And the pandemic has done the rest. Some morning I wake up and think, Did I get to an alternate reality last night? Am I going to look at my cell and see that all our borders are open again? That Covid is contained?
You get the idea here. This country screams for healing. Four more years of trump will kill us. If we’re going to survive as a democracy, a people, a planet, an economy, a world, Biden needs to win in a landslide. A blue tsunami.
P.S. My dad would be 107 today. For decades, he was a Republican. But with the Bush presidency that started in 2o00, my dad started turning. He would find the trump admin abhorrent.
I am hopeful things are changing . Here’s the Latino mayor of Tucson, Arizona on Trump’s campaign rally this week – I wish other elected officials had her honesty!
https://youtu.be/DQ-gTSNPF5A
Good for her! The mayor of Atlanta is like that, too.
I have no words, you said them all.
Bigger than you can imagine.
One piece at a time.
One domino, then the next.
[New] normal begins after the last.
Examine each domino carefully. You will be shocked by the lies you’ve been told.
Shocked.
Those you’ve been taught to trust.
Shocked.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Who turned off the light?
Light conquers darkness. Always.
So many riddles. Spell it out!
What is your preferred news source?
Are they telling you truths? Half truths? Lies?
How do you know?
Have they mentioned Hunter’s laptop?
Russian disinformation?
Things aren’t always what they seem.
Even if Joe not involved, Hunter story not newsworthy?
Who decides?
Democracy dies in darkness.
Who turned off the lights?
First domino. First of many.
Bigger than you can imagine.
Honestly, what’s your motive for posting this drivel? If you know something, share it.
I watched it, too, and I cried through a lot of it. It was so wonderful to see that there can be another way, a silver lining in hopes that we will return to a better world with another, anybody else, in the Oval Office. Joe was not my first choice, but I was very happy to cast my ballot for him.
He wasn’t my first choice, either. But we were happy to vote for him. Took our mail-in ballots to the election office.