Reply #57: Fighting Until It Wears You Down...to Nothing..?

[Hidden Stillness]

I started really thinking about your reply a little later, re-read it, and thought about it, and its tone (or what it seemed to me). Are you really feeling as "hopeless" or "shutting off" or fed-up as some of the phrasing seemed to be, (understandable, considering some of the shocking "D"LC/corporate moves, after all the campaign jargon)? Many battles seem to go on forever and have no constructive end at all--I am always depressingly aware of this every time you get another vicious, hostile blast of sexist hate from the "liberal males" on this or that invented issue, or you just realize again how male-centered and bigoted most of them still are, as if there had been no feminist movement and teaching at all.

There is getting to be a profound "sea-change" of attitudes, of societal groups, of what are considered to be political issues even, and a lot of that is muddled and angry for the time being, until it starts to sort itself out and become clearer. One of the biggest is what was done to women--starting with the hateful media treatment of the campaign of Hillary Clinton (even those who didn't support her were disgusted at its sexism) and all women's issues, the exploitation of women that never ends but seems to get even more violent--and the lack of response by anyone on this issue (nobody even calls it a hate crime, and it obviously is), etc. This can seem not only outrageous but hopeless just as a state of the world. Talk to women alone though, and you hear how angry they are, just beneath the surface; these issues never went away, to them. I think this will resurface as a political issue, because the shit that has been done to women is not forgotten. They are the ultimate "you have to vote for us, you have nowhere else to go/taken-for-granted group."

You also mentioned fighting on many levels, some personal. You probably don't want to get into something personal, but whatever it is, I hope it will go better and be happier next year. It is always tricky getting along with people; everybody can get touchy, defensive. The part at the very end though, "..and now? Now, when "people will care when it affects them" finally comes, I don't care anymore. They want to get all excited and NOW let's DO something about this damned CORPORATE GUBMINT!! Yeah, well, good luck with that."--well, that is really distressing. It seems so hopeless and giving-up, and yet, who can argue with it? I hope the people get back into the Government, get back into the National agenda for things, get the corporations and their poisonous, corrupting influence out, but this will be a huge, monumental, "fight to the death," "good vs. evil" level fight, conducted...how?