The GOP installed a drunk abuser on the Supreme Court so they can get their agenda pushed through, even though the vast majority of Americans didn't want it. The next two years are going to be interesting, to say the least...but only if Democrats will get off their butts and fight back just as down and dirty as Republicans. You don't take cookies to a knife fight...or even a knife to a gunfight. And when they cheat to win, you gotta get nastier than them and show them what brute force really means.
I had a project to work on, all day, so managed to avoid the rhetoric and hate till a little bit ago. Five minutes on Facebook and you'll see the same people who spent 8 years vilifying Obama and refusing to accept him as president telling you it's done, get over it. It's not done. It's just the beginning.
I've been comparing followers of the GOP to a pack of rabid dogs. It's sad they're sick, but their disease has no cure and you run a serious chance of being destroyed, yourself. Better to either isolate them until they die, or put them down. Since the latter option isn't considered acceptable in a civilized society, the former must be followed.
I have to send a second project in with this application for the writer's program. Just a treatment but in some detail and meaning. So...I'm going to update Dair's Window to reflect our new world of hate and bullying. The story has a fair amount of that in it, but it was written before same-sex marriage was legal and we were only being offered civil partnerships. That won't be hard to update.
It's funny, but when I wrote this script 10 years ago, during a writing seminar at Film Independent, gay marriage had been made legal in California, so someone said it was silly to write a script about gay men not being allowed to wed. I told her it wasn't over, yet...and six months later Proposition 8 passed, revoking it.
I think we're about to see same-sex marriage revoked, again, probably as part of states' rights. It may take a year or two, but it'll come before the court...and those right wing bastards on the bench will nullify the previous ruling. Same for abortion rights and voting rights. We need Congressional statutes making those national law...and then be able to protect them against the courts.
I'm not optimistic.
I had a project to work on, all day, so managed to avoid the rhetoric and hate till a little bit ago. Five minutes on Facebook and you'll see the same people who spent 8 years vilifying Obama and refusing to accept him as president telling you it's done, get over it. It's not done. It's just the beginning.
I've been comparing followers of the GOP to a pack of rabid dogs. It's sad they're sick, but their disease has no cure and you run a serious chance of being destroyed, yourself. Better to either isolate them until they die, or put them down. Since the latter option isn't considered acceptable in a civilized society, the former must be followed.
I have to send a second project in with this application for the writer's program. Just a treatment but in some detail and meaning. So...I'm going to update Dair's Window to reflect our new world of hate and bullying. The story has a fair amount of that in it, but it was written before same-sex marriage was legal and we were only being offered civil partnerships. That won't be hard to update.
It's funny, but when I wrote this script 10 years ago, during a writing seminar at Film Independent, gay marriage had been made legal in California, so someone said it was silly to write a script about gay men not being allowed to wed. I told her it wasn't over, yet...and six months later Proposition 8 passed, revoking it.
I think we're about to see same-sex marriage revoked, again, probably as part of states' rights. It may take a year or two, but it'll come before the court...and those right wing bastards on the bench will nullify the previous ruling. Same for abortion rights and voting rights. We need Congressional statutes making those national law...and then be able to protect them against the courts.
I'm not optimistic.
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