@gshevlin

Symbolism is powerful speech. Powerful speech has consequences. We are living with the consequences. We can choose to understand our political reality when we work for change, or we can ignore it at our peril. Hate to say it, but Dad was right.

@Fiikus_goddess @AvaSpeaksUp

@croning

Indeed. He sniffs as much as any drug addict I have represented. Odd, isn’t it?

🧐

@Evvie

It is Friday Eve. I always try to look at Thursday as positively as possible. It may be a futile effort at optimism today, but I am trying.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe a nice cafe au lait would help. 😻

☕️

#CaffeineClub

@gshevlin

My dad was a decorated WWII veteran. He left the military in Vietnam war and began counseling draft dodgers. He also marched for peace.

When people screamed at veterans returning home, he said it was a GRAVE MISTAKE - the left was alienating the people they could help. He also said it was a GRAVE MISTAKE to burn flags and allow the right wing to wrap itself in patriotism; it was patriotic to protest sending our boys to their deaths in a pointless war.

@AvaSpeaksUp @Fiikus_goddess

@gshevlin

That was delicious irony, wasn’t it? They played the characters to make fun of them. But those characters were unfortunately based upon reality - a reality that the majority of citizens were very like the characters they played.

@AvaSpeaksUp @Fiikus_goddess

@gshevlin

Unfortunately it wasn’t just older people. It was poorer people, rural people, the people who weren’t privileged enough to go to college at Berkeley, the people who couldn’t afford to dodge the draft and who didn’t like being called baby murderers.

Archie Bunker captured most of America at the time. The hippies, the protesters, etc. were a minority. But they didn’t shrivel up and disappear. They are still here, joined (I hope) by a new generation.

@AvaSpeaksUp @Fiikus_goddess

@AvaSpeaksUp

I was a child in the 60’s. There were people who were awakened to racism, sexism, and to capitalistic abuses. There were also people who were awakened to one thing but not to others (racism, but not sexism, for example). And then there were the Archie Bunkers, young and old alike, who were in the majority. Hence, Nixon.

I don’t think those who were awakened went back to sleep. I think the conservatives simply remained in power.

I am hopeful for the future.

@Fiikus_goddess

@counterzero

Cat naps are a good idea. Heading to bed and hoping for a good night’s sleep. 💤

@Kurtroedeger

@yogapaddlerun

LOVE! 💙💙

@Kilikaz3n

AKC has pet insurance

@jedijester

RESIST!

@Evvie

Is this the same person who attacks you for living while disabled?

@Kitty62862

@Kurtroedeger @counterzero

I have been cutting back on politics lately. I haven’t cut it out completely, but I have considered it. Periodically I need to take a break and do some self-care, and I am feeling a bit burned out.

Here’s a very relaxed kitty. 😻

@leejackson

Yuck! 🤢

@Airborne_Frog

Love it! 💜💜💜