Dealing With Them

Be kind to them, challenge them directly, walk away.

They believe they've discovered the magic formula for never being wrong. All they have to do is declare themselves always right, and everybody else always wrong. There's no "proving" for them. If your evidence is beyond reproach, they just claim "fake news", "lackey of the establishment" etc etc etc.

An updated Serenity Prayer:

Grant me the serenity to accommodate, and the courage to fight, and the wisdom to know when to walk away.

Slightly altered:

Grant me the self-respect to exit, and to ignore what I need not change -

the serenity to accept what I want to change but can't -

the courage to try to change what I can -

and the wisdom to know the difference.

A Short Litany

Jared Moscowitz (D - FL23) torching Republicans

A Glimmer

It can be hard for me not to stick with a notion I expressed 10 or 15 years ago one night out drinking with my buds.

"This country's damned near dead, and all we're doing is wrangling over who gets to do what with the corpse once it tips into the abyss."

But when I watch and listen, I can pick up a few signals - inadvertent or otherwise - from the people out there in cyberspace, which seem to be kinda hopeful.

To wit:

There's something oddly hopeful in speaking about "going down in history".

If we're to have any chance to look back at this chapter of our history, and see the Trump family for the shit-birds they are, then we have to be thinking democracy will win and we'll still be here - or our kids will be, or their kids.

Sometimes, all it takes is a glimmer.

The Palm Strike

OK, so that's not quite what your sensei had in mind.