When I first started this blog, I wrote about going to Nevada and knocking on doors for Barack Obama in 2008. After having Layla, my activism waned a little. I did protest against Prop 8 right after the 2008 election, and I did march in solidarity twice in 2009 in support of the green revolution in Iran. Then Layla was born and all I could do was parent and survive.
Then Trump happened. Sure didn't see that coming. I didn't knock on doors for Hilary Clinton like I did for Barack Obama. I didn't think it was necessary because who the fuck votes for Trump. Turns out people I know and love, along with assholes I don't know or love, will vote and even campaign for Donald Trump. So I've reactivated my activism. In 2017 I started my own mini-resistance group, attended several other resistance groups, went to the Women's March, Tax March, Earth Day March. I donate monthly to the ACLU. Saturday I went to the 2nd Women's March. I took Cary and the kids this time. Last year I went with Dad and Shahrzad. I'm so glad my immediate family has not been brainwashed by Trump.
I try to minimize what I post on Facebook, because I feel like the bandwidth of the non-activists, the complacent, and the pro-trumpers gets overwhelmed and then I'm disenfranchising and alienating people and talking into an echo chamber.
This is my blog I can say whatever I want without being considerate of who's wall this will show up on. You have been warned. Begin rant:
I am so disappointed in everyone that can't see beyond the Fox propaganda. I am so disappointed in the false equivalencies of the comparisons between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. I am so disappointed in people that will give conspiracy theories like Pizza Gate a second thought (WTF?!). I am so disappointed in people that feel CNN is the left equivalent of Fox's right. I am disappointed in anyone that considers Fox fair or balanced or anything other than propaganda for the right. I am disappointed in the unchristian hypocrisy of Christian America that showed up for a pussy grabber. I am disappointed in the complacent, and the pro-Bernie, that didn't think Hillary Clinton was pure enough to vote for and didn't have the ability to see the threat that Trump poses to fill in the bubble next to her name. I am disappointed in the way single issue voters will throw everything else under the bus just to make sure guns are unregulated, abortion is banned (regulated), brown foreigners are kept out (and it doesn't matter which brown, as long as their particular most hated brand of brown is kept out). I am disappointed in the purist leftist that would bitch about what fine-tuning needs to happen within the left and not recognize that the left that we have is our only option to band together and if you're going to beat the horse you're riding on without getting the horse to move forward, then you're a product of your own lack of progress.
That being said. I am proud of the 500,000 lovers of women that showed up at the march on Saturday. I feel like we had so many defeats last year after starting 2017 off in a super fired-up mode, that the activism fatigue would have kept more people at home. There are still enough snowflakes in the blizzard that winter is not ending anytime soon.
