That you Jeanne for posting ahead of me. I rate this moment as one of the big turning points in American history, certainly in our lifetimes, up there with and linked to January 6. This is a key moment for a political party that has been around for a good portion of our nation’s history. They are at an existential moment in their history. The party of white racists and male sexists, and that segment of our society at large, is at a crisis point. I was starting to wonder if I was going to see this in my lifetime, the disintegration of the old racist and sexist order. That moment has arrived. Popcorn has never tasted better.
Jeanne, isn’t there a famous saying about being beware of “interesting times”? For the courage, determination and support of democracy Liz Cheney is showing, I am grateful. When the lizard brain changelings crawl back in their slimy holes we can argue about how to move forward in the democracy we will still have.
What an incredible time to be watching history unfold. Scary as hell, but riveting as well.
That you Jeanne for posting ahead of me. I rate this moment as one of the big turning points in American history, certainly in our lifetimes, up there with and linked to January 6. This is a key moment for a political party that has been around for a good portion of our nation’s history. They are at an existential moment in their history. The party of white racists and male sexists, and that segment of our society at large, is at a crisis point. I was starting to wonder if I was going to see this in my lifetime, the disintegration of the old racist and sexist order. That moment has arrived. Popcorn has never tasted better.
I was just thinking that, too.
Jeanne, isn’t there a famous saying about being beware of “interesting times”? For the courage, determination and support of democracy Liz Cheney is showing, I am grateful. When the lizard brain changelings crawl back in their slimy holes we can argue about how to move forward in the democracy we will still have.
"May you live in interesting times" is a venerable Chinese saying. It's not necessarily a blessing or compliment.
The great historian Eric Hobsbawm titled his memoir "Interesting Times."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/17/eric-hobsbawm-mi5-communism-stalin-historian-private-papers
Thank you, again for helping my brain follow a trail
Leave a trail of bread crumbs to find the way out of the woods, but don't let the birds eat it.
Working on just such strategies