...because, like you, I've fought the good fight for a very long time. The way I see it now, as I've said in another forum, is I'm holding seven/deuce off-suit while sitting across from the guy holding a pair of aces. My part in the game is over. Trump could replace Alito and Thomas with clones who are 30 years younger, and it's possible he could wind up having put six justices on the Supreme Court. America's greatest archcriminal will remake its highest court for the next generation. That, and the damage that will do, will not be undone in the remainder of my lifetime.
Thank goodness I'm relatively healthy and, despite some financial ups and downs, I may be able to make it through that remainder of life financially okay. I don't feel despondent, and I hope you can get beyond that. I'm not depressed, and I don't regret the years I've spent fighting the good fight, but I know it's time for me to bow out. What's going to happen in these next four years will take a subsequent generation to undo, and I'm unlikely to live that long.
I hope you can find the strength and will to rebound from your current state. There are people who are committing themselves to the resistance and it's possible they will be effective at some point in constraining or reversing some of the worst that's yet to come, but I feel our best hope for avoiding the destruction of our democracy has just been turned away, and it's time for me to focus on me. I've spent the last 50 years trying to educate, implore, persuade, convince, and cajole folks in my community and my country to think deeper and work a bit harder for their country's interests, and results will redound to them in ways that will make all our lives better. You and millions of others have done the same thing, but at the most critical juncture in our history since WWII, folks didn't buy what we were selling. I have my beliefs as to why not, and they've been expressed elsewhere. They've made their choice. Whatever life will be, for as long as we live, it will go on. And we should be proud of what we've done, and be okay with a decision to accept what's happened and move on.
So please, try to heal, and go ahead and devote your remaining time to you.
Good luck.
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