the anger

There is anger now, in recent friend and family chats.

At first, it was abstract. We were mad at the virus (knowing it made no sense but acknowledging it anyway).

Angry that our normal was no more.

That jobs evaporated overnight along with income, a sense of well-being, and expectations for the future.

We're all in this together, folkx kept saying.

(Now we're clearer: same boat, different situations.)

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But, with the overwhelming failures at the federal level, the incomprehensible combination of incompetence and greed and self-aggrandizement, with all this, comes the anger.

Somehow our so-called leaders are accepting thousands of deaths per day as acceptable.

Accepting that rich-->richer and poor and middle class-->poorer.

Calling on us to sacrifice while they hide and bloviate.

It's disgusting and immoral and probably criminal.

Evicting these criminals from every office they hold and eventually holding them accountable must be our only goal.

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In the meantime: survive, thrive, and connive.