APE IN A CAPE: A Discouraging Year So Far...

APE IN A CAPE: A Discouraging Year So Far...:

izandra:

gailsimone:

It seems like the worst year in a while for the causes I believe in, and we're only three months in.

A record number of increasingly hysterical bills are coming before various state congresses that limit women's rights over their own bodies, some actually allowing doctors to lie to their…

I'm positive this is contributing a huge chunk to my returning depression.  Sure, my job insecurity is a large part of it, but reading the news every day and finding stories like the above over and over again is just exhausting for my soul.  I can't believe how fast it seems we are going backwards as a country.  I'm just praying to god we hit the tipping point soon and people start realizing how insane and awful the right wing now is, and fighting back.

I goofily forgot the ongoing war against immigrants of all stripes, another case where their lives have no value to this lot of lawmakers.

What's driving me nuts is, if you take out the women, the lgbtq, and the people of color that these awful people and institutions are attacking…

…who is even LEFT to still call Americans?  Those groups together would add up to a HUGE majority of the people in this country, even with those who belong to more than one group. So it's a minority holding all the power and attacking the MAJORITY of Americans at this point.