Journal 133 Midterms

The Democrats won in midterms. Maybe if I was thirteen or twenty I would feel happy, as if a villainous politician was rebuked, but I am not moved. I’ve already seen this happen. Obama ordered multiple air attacks. Despite promises, Guantanamo Bay was never shut down. The surveillance state grows. Same old same old.

It all just felt staged. Nobody seemed surprised. The American people are just tossed back and forth like a ping pong ball. It just felt like the herd was moved. American people are just treated like human livestock.

For Americans this all starts to feel normal. This current environment of hostility, fear, mistrust, discomfort, senselessness, dehumanization, and tattle-taling isn’t normal. Americans are trying every day to remind themselves that this isn’t normal, but they’re only human. When it’s pushed in every new show, every new movie, and you feel it every day and are forced to live around it, it’s hard to keep remembering.

Shortly before I left America, people were losing their jobs for laughing. It felt like living in the Romulan Empire.

I really hope that things change for the better, what America does inside and outside her borders.

Please have a good and peaceful week!

Asya Carrino