It really IS surreal, what’s going on.

I read the news in the NYT, The Guardian, and follow various sites. I think: All this … living that’s going on – how is it possible that we take it all for granted in this most amazing and fragile democracy? How come people are talking about the holidays, and buying things and shopping (and so are we – well, food and a few gifts)? How are we going blithely about our days while so much awfulness is happening to so many people already? And when it comes to all of us, as it will (except for the very, very, very rich, who will be able to hold it off for just a little longer than the rest of us), will we be surprised, or just shrug and meet our fates with a sigh?

A crazy, delusional person with completely evil people flanking him on all sides has been “elected” by the minority. How can those who elected him not see where all this is headed? How come WE cannot see where all this is headed?

Some of us can, but we’d go insane if we let it get to us, so we cook food, play music, gird up our collective loins, go to rallies and protests, take various kinds of action, and let our rapidly-beating hearts push us ahead to do what we can. Alas, however, this is the Dissolution, folks, and what we’re doing is making hasty sandbags.

And how can we hope against hope that some miracle will STILL deliver us from the evil of that ADHD-addled, NPD-riddled, thin-skinned, lizard-brained creature that masquerades as human? He may not be human, at that. Perhaps, he’s a construct, assembled from various spare parts from another dimension, sent to devastate the planet. If so, we have need of our wits, our guts, our hearts, our love for each other, our love for the planet.

AND we have need of a miracle.

We can fight, yes, and we will, yes, but HOW do we win, unless we give up the very things that we respect in a democracy? Our current President cannot seize power, or curtail the incoming President’s powers at the Federal level, like the outgoing GOP did in the recent NC legislative coup. Our side cannot do anything like that without also dying a little inside, from the shame of it. For, it goes against democratic principles. And the “other side” knows it. And they’re gleefully rubbing their hands together, saying, “Haha, we got you now, suckers!”

So, our very decency and upholding of laws has gotten us into this bind.

Honour? The other side cares not one whit for it.

I, however, do.

And it doesn’t help.