I'm sympathetic, of course - what a nightmare to feel responsible for a torture camp because your side couldn't muster the votes. I've had to withdraw interest, entirely, because it automatically brings sympathy, and I just can't emotionally afford it any more.
For instance, I went from astonishment to anger&contempt at the Obama administ…
I'm sympathetic, of course - what a nightmare to feel responsible for a torture camp because your side couldn't muster the votes. I've had to withdraw interest, entirely, because it automatically brings sympathy, and I just can't emotionally afford it any more.
For instance, I went from astonishment to anger&contempt at the Obama administration, then finally to sympathy. Could not *believe* he could leave open torture camps, not end illegal war, but finally realized that ObamaCare passed by ONE vote...and that, because Obama had to husband his every drop of political capital to get there.
And then THAT was backlashed not with just a 1000-seat loss but, OMG, Trump. The jump from Carter to Reagan was teeny in comparison.
So !@#$ 'em. Sudan doesn't break my heart because I don't know or care about their politics, and carefully don't start to. I was years disengaging from hope for Afghanistan, when I realized they wouldn't, as a nation, change, despite all the many, many sympathetic victims there. I'll just feel bad, every day for the rest of my life, if I let myself care about Afghanistan. Or Sudan. Or Ohio. Sorry.
I get what you mean. We all have to preserve our mental health even at the best of times, and we are not in the best of times right now, that's for sure.
And agreed. I voted so excitedly for Obama in 2008 and it didn't take long for me to realize he was, for the most part, business as usual. A disappointment.
I'm sympathetic, of course - what a nightmare to feel responsible for a torture camp because your side couldn't muster the votes. I've had to withdraw interest, entirely, because it automatically brings sympathy, and I just can't emotionally afford it any more.
For instance, I went from astonishment to anger&contempt at the Obama administration, then finally to sympathy. Could not *believe* he could leave open torture camps, not end illegal war, but finally realized that ObamaCare passed by ONE vote...and that, because Obama had to husband his every drop of political capital to get there.
And then THAT was backlashed not with just a 1000-seat loss but, OMG, Trump. The jump from Carter to Reagan was teeny in comparison.
So !@#$ 'em. Sudan doesn't break my heart because I don't know or care about their politics, and carefully don't start to. I was years disengaging from hope for Afghanistan, when I realized they wouldn't, as a nation, change, despite all the many, many sympathetic victims there. I'll just feel bad, every day for the rest of my life, if I let myself care about Afghanistan. Or Sudan. Or Ohio. Sorry.
I get what you mean. We all have to preserve our mental health even at the best of times, and we are not in the best of times right now, that's for sure.
And agreed. I voted so excitedly for Obama in 2008 and it didn't take long for me to realize he was, for the most part, business as usual. A disappointment.