Who do you trust? We literally can't trust the federal government right now. People have always distrusted government, myself included, but until this year there have been a lot of civil service employees who worked at sometimes unglamorous jobs, doing the business of running a nation for the taxpayers, with quiet professionalism. They didn't always get things right, they weren't always efficient, they were never perfect, but I think the majority struck a balance between caring about their work and evening out the political whims of the leaders' policies.

One problem I have with the current regime is the petty, brutal meanness they seem to have toward the public, especially the most vulnerable people of society. Ignoring for a moment that they seem to be horrible, despicable people without a shred of sympathy; their governing philosophy is that government should not be paying money to support the poor and elderly, to support education or health care, to ensure people can be treated with dignity, or to acknowledge that through our nation’s history we have treated some people very badly because they were “different” somehow from the ideal “able-bodied, industrious, straight, white christian male”.

Last night I dreamed that pandas were everywhere. No longer regarded as adorable curiosities, these lazy and insolent creatures were reviled as ubiquitous pests rivaling the monkeys of Asian countries. They would destroy wicker patio furniture; chew the rubber hoses at gas stations; and shred the books in libraries. They wandered the streets in packs, disrupting traffic and frustrating drivers; no one bothered to remove the matted hair and blood from the bumpers of countless cars.

standing at the shorethe edge of the landthe edge of my sanity the edge of a dull bladenot nearly sharp enoughthe only scars are on the inside no weapons at handjagged words and fractured memoriesare all I need to prolong the pain shaking in fear and ragescreaming at the watera cracking voice drowned by the waves…

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