I’ve read two conflicting accounts of how to behave now that Trump will be taking office on Jan. 20. Miriam Elder, a reporter who covered Russia for eight years, said that after Putin took over, many in the Russian opposition simply retreated into their own lives. It was too overwhelming, he was too strong, you could be sent to the Gulag. Some of those people who went into internal exile now are regretting their withdrawal from politics and blame the war on Ukraine on their silence.
On the other hand, New York Times commentator Charles Blow said that after the campaign, the effort, the contributions–it was time to take a rest. It is too much to ask patriots to keep fighting constantly; we all need a break.
I find myself torn between those two poles. On the one hand, I am truly tired and disappointed. After all, a plurality of my fellow citizens were willing to vote for a man they must have known was a crook, a rapist, a guy who knows so little about governing he doesn’t even understand what a tariff does. I’m still trying to wrap my head around that. I don’t watch CNN or MSNBC, although I hardly watched them even before the election. I don’t want to discuss politics or even be in the same room with people who voted for Trump.
On the other hand, I’m manufacturing buttons on my little button machine that say “Deport Elon Musk and Peter Thiel,” “Don’t blame me; I voted for Kamala,” “Elect a clown–expect a circus,” and “Is It Great Yet?” I’m still reading the New York Times. My problems is that I don’t know where to start, even how to oppose Trump when Zuckerberg, ABC, Jeff Bezos, almost every billionaire, and the entire Republican Party are sucking up to this idiot.
I’ll think about it some more.
There are too many people I love still here not to keep fighting!
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