As an Irish person in the US, so much of this resonated with me. I also haven't been able to in post about anything else, and every time I do I feel that mix of embarrassment and hopelessness. But you're right: nothing else feels real. I've also seen those tears shed in defense of killing. At the hearing for my city's ceasefire resolution (which passed, thankfully), there was such righteous indignation that you'd think we were calling for retaliatory strikes on Tel Aviv instead of asking our own government to call for an end to the massacre of a captive civilian population with money and weapons that we continue to supply. I keep wondering how much of my own taxes have contributed to this hell. Enough to buy a tank shell? A canister of white phosphorus? So many people here are under the illusion that silence is neutrality, when the US government has very much picked a side for us. I'm fairly cynical but this has utterly broken my faith in national politics and the Democratic party. I don't know how we're going to make it through this year. It's maddening.
As an Irish person in the US, so much of this resonated with me. I also haven't been able to in post about anything else, and every time I do I feel that mix of embarrassment and hopelessness. But you're right: nothing else feels real. I've also seen those tears shed in defense of killing. At the hearing for my city's ceasefire resolution (which passed, thankfully), there was such righteous indignation that you'd think we were calling for retaliatory strikes on Tel Aviv instead of asking our own government to call for an end to the massacre of a captive civilian population with money and weapons that we continue to supply. I keep wondering how much of my own taxes have contributed to this hell. Enough to buy a tank shell? A canister of white phosphorus? So many people here are under the illusion that silence is neutrality, when the US government has very much picked a side for us. I'm fairly cynical but this has utterly broken my faith in national politics and the Democratic party. I don't know how we're going to make it through this year. It's maddening.