Have we all just given up on the potential?

     I can hardly look at my Facebook front page these days.  A ton of my friends from High School, College and Church are just cynical.  It makes me think Trump IS going to win because they're going to write-in Bernie Sanders, which will cause Biden to lose and they will only do it over spite over Gaza, forgetting we need to come together to make sure Project 2025 never sees the light of day.  This is not some anxiety-riddled catastrophe, this is an actual political plan the Republicans are proposing for Trump to use that will ensure the only way our country will resemble itself is women will still not be required to wear dresses that end 3 inches below their knees.  Video game companies will be outlawed, my Church could be arrested, raids could occur throughout cities with mass incarcerations, which will inevitably lead to executions.  Every company that ever celebrated Pride or same-gender relationships will be criminally prosecuted as a pornography producer and sentenced to life without parole, and America hasn't even reached its potential here yet.

 

    America could get to a place where LGBTQ+ Praise singers are accepted, not forced to make their albums on Kickstarter.  America could get to a place where Korrasami, Catradora, Bumbleby and Edeleth are accepted as part of the story, and not outliers allies and LGBTQ+ folks carry in a bag afraid of explaining them to the wrong person.  America could get to the place where Christians are known by their love, not their genocides, and I'm not jealous by the lack of an earthly burden Carl Sagan fans have because wherever I go on this planet, American Christian ideology has ruined some group's life in such a way even the Nazis wouldn't emulate it.  Wherever they go, they can talk about how their guy just wanted to send Beatles songs into space.  And I feel we've given up on that with all this "Late Stage Capitalism" talk, like it's just inevitable America will be fascist and ruled by AI and we're just "Oh well, can't do anything about it."  That's how Soylent Green starts.  That's how executions of the masses start.  It's not inevitable if we don't just give up.  And I'm worried that we have.