The Golden Hour

11/09/2024

The Golden Hour

Yesterday (Friday), I was meeting with someone at work who kept referring to what 'a terrible week' it had been, and for a few seconds, I asked myself what was so terrible about it. And then I remembered.

How could I have forgotten? It wasn't so terrible, I realized, because it wasn't unexpected. Of course he won. He won in February of 2020 when the Democratic Party leadership orchestrated the defeat of Bernie Sanders in advance of the South Carolina primary. And he won in [insert date and any of the many, many examples when Democrats failed to stop him from running again]. And he and his allies will keep winning until the Democrats deliver the same kinds of radical change that Trump is promising, but in the opposite direction, which is to say toward redistributing wealth/constraining corporate power and caring for sick people (and animals) and curbing climate change, basically all the things we're failing to do as a country (and as a species).

Trump wants to ruin the world, and that's exciting for desperate people (and confusing for those who are comfortable with the world as it is). I dread the next four (or more) years under Trump. I'm already exhausted by him and he hasn't even started, but I'm also tired of Democrats like Biden and Harris and (especially) Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul. I've read many articles discussing the terrible policies we can expect Trump to enact, and often (not always, but enough) I find myself thinking, 'well, the Democrats have already done that.' We were living in a corrupt plutocracy before Trump was elected (again), and we will still be living in a corrupt plutocracy when he takes office.

The only certainty is that the natural world has had enough of us. Will Trump and his rich friends Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos be able to prevent the hurricanes and the fires and the flooding?

It's comforting to know that somewhere, something very powerful is working to rebalance the world, and no amount of corporate lobbying will be able to stop it.

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Music: Death Culture at Sea and Saturnine

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