I am so annoyed with SCOTUS, not that that is anything new. Flabbergasted they had the nerve to ban Tiktok knowing full well it violates our First Amendment Rights.
I am eagerly anticipating when we actually vote the dinosaurs out of office. Congress doesn't listen to the constituents and that is not how a democracy is meant to be.
Between this, and overturning ROE V WADE, is it really any wonder so many of us are struggling to find a way out of this country. It isn't safe for immigrants, and we're too poor to emigrate. I would jump at the chance to live in Scotland, Italy, Ireland, or even Peru at this rate. I'm not very good with languages myself, despite an avid interest in the subject and words in general. But I would happily stumble through a foreign language if they had better Social Justice.
Seriously, Germany could be fun. Switzerland has great chocolate. Finland is colorful. Norway has quite the culture. Ireland and Scotland are the predominating nations on my family tree. Both countries seem gorgeous. I could live through a lot of discomfort if I felt I was actually being acknowledged.
This constant fear of what else they're going to do to us as Women, as Queers, and that's just my perspective. You add in anyone who is Black/Indigenous or in anyway not white and that fear increases by at least double.
I know I started with Tiktok, but really it is all tied together. The United States is backsliding like a game of dominoes. This is not what the suffragettes struggled for. This isn't what our culture is developed around. I am tired of hypocrisy and lies being in all corners of our government.
Why do we keep allowing these kinds of people, an insult to our entire species and destructive to the planet, into power? Why are we so afraid to stand together and rise up?
Les Miserable is, in case anyone still doesn't know this, about an actual war in France. The people, in 2 days, rose up and took back their Parisian home from the newly established monarchy. Obviously, they may have had an easier time of it since the regime they were fighting was new. But what kind of excuse is that for us not to try?
The June Rebellion occurred on June 5th - 6th, in 1832. It was so short and quick that, without Victor Hugo writing his book Les Miserable, it would have been completely forgotten to history. In fact, it wasn't until 30 years after the fact it became published in France. From this work of fiction based on a real event, we have a musical which was then turned into film. Such a phenomenal work has been continuously shared through many mediums for nearly 200 years, so it obviously doesn't lack substance. The message and the narratives serve many points, but overall it is that only together can we save ourselves.
I really don't want us to still be going through all these political tragedies 6 years from now when it will officially be 200 years.
We need to rally together, literally and metaphorically, to bring about change. Yes, you should also vote - despite the feeling of futility - because, if for no other reason, they will take away your voting rights as well if you don't actually use them. They need to know we will always do what it takes and what we can for our society to keep from crumbling. Even if it means the system itself is what is allowing us to fall apart.
Let's bring Order out of Chaos before it's too late.
