When cholera threatens a nation or troops open fire in the rain

[sovay]

I just wanted to spend my afternoon announcing the poetry acceptance I woke up to and then finishing my film review from last night, but instead there is armed sedition—terrorism, treason—at the Capitol and I had so much wanted the stoking of this violence to be like the specter of a shooting war at the polls in November, all talk. I have not wanted a shooting war. What I want is this obscenity burned down and the earth where it grew salted and then burned over again. What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

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[asakiyume]

And we're going to be stuck living in the steaming wreckage, trying to fix things, make things better, for years and years to come--that's if we avoid the shooting war! My brain is fried with the rage.

[sovay]

And we're going to be stuck living in the steaming wreckage, trying to fix things, make things better, for years and years to come--that's if we avoid the shooting war!

That was almost certain to be true no matter what, because of the man in the White House and his claims of fraud and his stooges who amplify his treason, but I didn't want things to come this close. I wanted the Republicans who had declared their allegiance against democracy to waste their breath tying up the electoral confirmation and then I wanted a peaceful transition of power. I still want a safe transition of power to the government whom the majority of this country elected and our even outmoded electoral college confirmed, but I think we may just have lost the peaceful part and I hate it.

My brain is fried with the rage.

It is enraging.