What's odd is the extremely quiet, almost supine mood in the country. Particularly where I live, in Portland, which I would have expected to be in full swing with protests against every single one of these absurd executive orders. Instead, I listened to two old hippies at a bar tonight who both had trans children, making bitter jokes about how at least their kids were evolving while everything else was going backwards. There's a feeling of total defeat, absolutely no center to organize around. "That's what all the idiots wanted," one of them said. And that was the end of the conversation.
I heard a similar resignation from British friends, after the Brexit vote.
I wake up thinking, if it is a coup, then surely they can't do this!
And then I think, of course they can, they just did it. Who the hell is going to stop them?
noduerme|1 year ago
What's odd is the extremely quiet, almost supine mood in the country. Particularly where I live, in Portland, which I would have expected to be in full swing with protests against every single one of these absurd executive orders. Instead, I listened to two old hippies at a bar tonight who both had trans children, making bitter jokes about how at least their kids were evolving while everything else was going backwards. There's a feeling of total defeat, absolutely no center to organize around. "That's what all the idiots wanted," one of them said. And that was the end of the conversation.
I heard a similar resignation from British friends, after the Brexit vote.
I wake up thinking, if it is a coup, then surely they can't do this!
And then I think, of course they can, they just did it. Who the hell is going to stop them?