Politics

This guy

~ MaryG ~ 3 Comments

What’s something you believe everyone should know.

This pertains to Americans only.

I really think every adult, 18 and over, should be able to name both of their US senators, their governor, and their representative in the House.

It scares me that so many people don’t know really basic stuff. I feel like 2024 is a year that everyone actually needs to pay attention. Depending on what happens in these upcoming elections, things could take a terrible turn, from which I don’t think we’ll recover in my lifetime.

I guess it would be just too much to expect people to be able to name the Speaker of the House, in addition to the President and the Vice President (which most people know). I mean, he’s only second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president.

This guy, who wants to ban all abortions without exception — to the point of criminalization with prison sentences — is Speaker of the House.

Most people can name these two. Her first name is pronounced: COMMA-LA. Not that hard!

Yeah, it’s politics

~ MaryG ~ 1 Comment
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I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that people I know–close family members–voted for Trump. That’s it. That’s the grudge. Sadly, it permanently changed how I feel about them.

Given how excited I was feeling about voting for the first woman president (in my pantsuit) on November 8, 2016, it was the Access Hollywood tape that I cannot believe they overlooked in order to pull the lever for Trump. In 2020, it was just everything. I feel like their decision revealed a fundamental difference in values so deep that I never really knew them.

So now we just don’t talk about anything remotely political, but that’s hard. Small talk can be tedious with people you know (or thought you knew) well. It’s a real rift and that’s sad.

My daughter and me in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2017 after the Women’s March. We’re smiling, but fury was the mood of the day.