Trump really did the abuser thing where you recalibrate your mind to what’s normal, even for those of us who hated him every second. Like we are just sitting here watching 4000 people die a day of Covid AND there was a coup AND his followers beat a cop to death AND AND AND

I know Biden is a centrist and I’m also way left of him but I am very much looking forward to having a human in office who cares about people. Like yesterday cried when I read that they are gonna open vaccination centers but like OF COURSE they should. It’s gonna be weird to...

...go back to that baseline. Like we all KNEW it would be bad to have Trump as president and now most of know at least one person who died or got super sick from Covid and watched everyone do nothing to stop him and he’s STILL in the White House after an attempted coup. It’s...

...gonna take a minute for us all to realize that the government at least pretending to care should be the LEAST we expect. And we have to take this feeling and push for better: Medicare for All, Universal Basic Income, all the things that would have helped protect society...

...in the first place. It’s gonna be weird but then we gotta get better.

Also if feeling this uncared first felt NEW to you, it’s important to realize that many people feel this way ALL THE TIME and that pushing to institutionalize health care and basic income is a way to correct that with laws. If those programs feel radical to you, there’s a good...

...chance you never felt you needed them because you had a family-provided safety net, or your identity made getting/keeping work easy, or you were just fucking lucky. Now is the time to pay that good fortune back by institutionalizing care for others so this doesn’t happen again