I begin to see how states with once robust rule of law enshrined in constitutions of longstanding do manage to fail. I mean in the USA now there's so much completely outrageous stuff happening under pretense of lawmaking that one becomes desensitized to a lot of it, enough so it feels like too much work to pick up the phone and call a legislator's office to say ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS? or better yet help to primary them for their nonsense the next time they stand for re-election.
Really it's becoming too tiring to make the effort to pay diligent attention to the antics of these guys. I'd like to think it's because of my age, but I've heard some much younger kin say stuff like that, people in their 20s and 30s, and some of them have been political activists. I've been that too, but we all do have better things to do than ride herd on hyperpartisan malcontents serving in state legislatures, and so these essentially anti-government creatures get away with tearing down rule of law from within, year after year, and the pace seeming to pick up each season.
The far right in the GOP are counting on the likelihood that we won't bother them. My outrage turns into an eyeroll or just clicking out of a news report before the end because the alternative starts to feel like throwing the device I'm reading it on across the room. I'm hoping there are still some people out there who haven't just about used up their ability to keep getting in the face of rogue lawmakers while there's still time to save the one nation we supposedly share and consent to govern together. My ability to fight back feels like it's growing faint sometimes.
Hah, maybe I just need more sunshine or a vitamin supplement. It's been a long damn winter after four damn long years of Trump, and a few months of someone else in the WH is a relief but not a panacea, obviously. The GOP is still effectively the party of NO in so many statehouses.