Right there with you. I can say there will be suffering and cruelty. We need to help each other through this and stand with those who support decency and democracy. It will be hard. Authoritarian scholars tell us to remember our values and not let them be diminished; to be brave; and to be kind.
I have nothing to say about what just happened. It's awful.
But I will say this: I am 68 years old. I have been reading sf since I was 10 (starting with Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet books). In times of stress or sorrow (I've had my share) I have often turned to sf for, if not solace, at least a respite from the world.
This week I turned to your Space Opera - the first of your sf I have ever read.
It's great. Pratchett and Adams level great. I smiled. I laughed out loud. I forgot the world for a while.
Enough of the MAGA cult members had subconscious shame that they'd have to face if Trump lost and went to prison. How could I have believed all that crap? How could I excuse how I ignored how evil he is? Not a lot, but enough.
So enough extra people went to the polls to avoid facing their conscience. We should have been hearing this story of cognitive dissonance driving MAGA to the polls, so enough of us who didn't go vote would have gone.
And others of the MAGA cult were so angry about the "stolen" election of 2020 that they forced themselves to go vote so that the election couldn't be stolen.
We just didn't push these reasons for getting many more voters out than usual.
Cult leaders are so evil, and so effective. Now we have to make it through somehow.
"Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?"
Hunter S. Thompson, *Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72*
Right there with you. I can say there will be suffering and cruelty. We need to help each other through this and stand with those who support decency and democracy. It will be hard. Authoritarian scholars tell us to remember our values and not let them be diminished; to be brave; and to be kind.
We have to do whatever we can to defend our access to wood and water.
Thank you for this, Ms Valente.
I am still in shock.
"Chop wood, carry water"
I have nothing to say about what just happened. It's awful.
But I will say this: I am 68 years old. I have been reading sf since I was 10 (starting with Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet books). In times of stress or sorrow (I've had my share) I have often turned to sf for, if not solace, at least a respite from the world.
This week I turned to your Space Opera - the first of your sf I have ever read.
It's great. Pratchett and Adams level great. I smiled. I laughed out loud. I forgot the world for a while.
Thank you so much for what you do.
Enough of the MAGA cult members had subconscious shame that they'd have to face if Trump lost and went to prison. How could I have believed all that crap? How could I excuse how I ignored how evil he is? Not a lot, but enough.
So enough extra people went to the polls to avoid facing their conscience. We should have been hearing this story of cognitive dissonance driving MAGA to the polls, so enough of us who didn't go vote would have gone.
And others of the MAGA cult were so angry about the "stolen" election of 2020 that they forced themselves to go vote so that the election couldn't be stolen.
We just didn't push these reasons for getting many more voters out than usual.
Cult leaders are so evil, and so effective. Now we have to make it through somehow.