I'm just SO TIRED [View all]

[Jilly_in_VA]

I'm tired of sitting here watching everything I worked for, marched for, campaigned for, voted for, be slowly and methodically taken away. Some of it by elected officials, some of it by activist--yes, activist--judges, some of it by right-wing thugs who scream at me or sneer at me in the grocery store if I wear a mask, or at my voting place when I politely say "No thank you" when they try to shove a RepubliKKKan campaign leaflet or pre-marked "sample ballot" into my hands. I'm tired of being angry every day when I look at the news, even at DU, and see instances of one more Black or brown or young life being needlessly taken away by some cop on some ridiculous pretext. I'm tired of being told that my granddaughters will have fewer rights than I did if I don't DO something--as if I haven't spent the last 50+ years DOING SOMETHING already! I'm tired of hearing that "immigrants are ruining this country"---from people whose immigrant grandparents BUILT the damn country. I'm tired of watching my country go down the drain and feeling like I'm only one ancient voice screaming. I'm tired of living in this deterioration and knowing there's nowhere else I can go because I'm so old now that no other country will take me. I"m just...so..very..tired. Living in a constant state of despair and anger is exhausting.