Blue Tsunami!

 I haven't watched the news since November 5th, 2024. I couldn't stand the everyday chaos being dumped into my psyche. So I've watched van lifers, renovators and cooking shows on YouTube. But still the chaos had a way of creeping in through the cracks. I saw reports on YouTube, Facebook and even opening up my web browser every day. The never-ending mountains of everyday chaos was designed to desensitize, dehumanize and overwhelm us. But it didn't work. We went into the streets with frog costumes and plastic whistles when they sent unidentified thugs with guns to our cities. We rallied, and we marched, and we knitted resistance hats, and we fought back. And then we voted. We went to the polls when they sent the unidentified thugs to be "poll monitors". When they moved our polling locations miles away, we marched and we caravanned, We knocked on doors to tell our neighbors that we needed them to vote too. 

I turned on MS Now on Tuesday night half expecting the same sickening disappointment that I felt two years earlier. I had a bag full of chocolate and a bowl of popcorn. As the evening wore on my hope surged again and again. Giants fell, and the wave got bigger. And by the end of the night I was fairly dancing in my living room. My neighbors were celebrating on the porch. The sour note for me is that we are stuck with Tommy Tuberville for the next four years. But I will rejoice in all of the victories of that night. 

But don't be fooled, don't think it's over. I thought MAGA was done in 2020, and then January 6th happened. I don't expect that they will fade gently into the shadow of disreputable history. I'm sure that they will put on their cult hats and drape themselves in American flags to fight it out. This time we need to stand up and yell back in their faces, "NEVER AGAIN!"

I had been waking up every morning with one prayer, "Please God, let him be dead." Now I don't. I want him to live out every minute of the next two years facing the tribunal of our wrath at what he had done to our country, what he has done to the world, what he has done to Iranian families. But dollars to doughnuts he will slink off to Mar-a-lago and try to hide behind his dementia. 

And still, it won't be over. There are a hundred million enablers who have to be dealt with. This can never happen again, not here. Not anywhere.