Joe Biden is now president. He is not a messiah figure, but he is an experienced politician who seems to genuinely want to help people and know how to, qualities missing in Donald Trump. I do believe that we will see some improvements in the pandemic by the end of February, and he has already heartened anti-racists by restoring a lot of protections of non-white males that Trump and gotten rid of.
We still have many people dying each day but I am much more hopeful.
I haven't felt fully awake for a while.
There are some background stressors that I think are the issue. The pandemic continues and is worsening, although it sounds as if things will turn around as soon as Biden is sworn in.
The attack on the Capitol and the ongoing threat of further violence from Trump supporters keeps me checking the news every five minutes. It hurts to think of so many of my fellow citizens being so violently deluded.
In any event I keep taking involuntary naps as soon as my adrenaline fades a bit. It is not much fun.
Nobody seemed to take Trump and his minions seriously. Now we have a violated federal Capitol and a country in shock.
A sizeable number of Republicans living in conspiracy-world still believe that the election of Joe Biden was fraudulent, without any proof. They are finding excuses for the mob that Trump organized and directed to attack the Capitol.
Trump has quieted but has still not conceded the election he lost in November 3. As of this writing he has 12 more days as President. There is talk of the 25th amendment but the folk who would have to invoke it have neither honor nor courage. Congress is moving to impeach him but the earliest they start the procedure is apparently Monday.
Why did no one believe that Trump was capable of this, after four years of violent rhetoric and orders? I expected a circus from assholes like Cruz, Hawley, and Johnson, but never imagined that the people organizing security for the Capitol would treat the mob with kid gloves.
It's been hard to concentrate on anything. I struggle to believe in America as a noble concept but I see that hope fading in my children and I curse the Republicans that brought this to fruition, step by step, away from truth and honor.
