Hiatus

 I decided to step back for a bit. It's not that my first impulse wasn't writing a long scathing rant, because I've still got the partial rough draft sitting here, multiple pages, untouched, unfinished. It's that there's a lot to work through since the election.

I'd like to ask what happened? How on earth could we do it? But one comment that keeps repeating in discussions about it explains quite a lot. Voters overheard their fellow voters' comments about not even realizing that Biden wasn't on the ballot! How the hell can we be so ignorant?

We did this. We brought in an administration headed by a conman, Putin puppet, narcissistic man-baby  Hitler admirer, FOR THE SECOND TIME !

I wanted to think we didn't deserve this. Now I have to think we do. Unfortunately what's coming will be very painful for the people who voted it in (Surprise!), and with his vengeful nature, even more for those who didn't. It will also hurt everybody else, not just Americans, not just adults. Not even just people. 

I'm stepping away to grieve for a while. I need to organize, to plan, to try to find sense in the world again. I need to ask myself questions, both about surviving what's ahead, but whether I want to, whether I even want our species to, much as I so dearly love some of the newest members of it who have no say is what's coming.

We have been warned, those of us who bothered to listen. To read. There is a playbook out there, literally. It's very long. It's not fantasy. It could have been, had enough of us been playing attention. Yes, I know, busy lives, price of eggs, all those excuses. It just mattered more this time.

But all too soon, very little will. Matter, that is. Too many tipping points being blown past already, with no returning.

I need to go figure out how to deal with it.