It appears Roe vs Wade will be overturned. The vitriol I see on Twitter and Facebook is alarming from both sides. It's not dissent, disagreement or discussion... but gloating and badgering and "in your face" from the right and name calling and slandering from the left. I suppose that is why I have self-limited the frequency I review them to once - perhaps twice in a day and then only for a very small amount of time. There are a few posts that respectfully / civilly present their point and counterpoint, but they are by far the distinct minority.
And maybe we have always been this angry. Maybe there just was no global forum for so many to so openly spew their anger. I no longer am sure, but I thought that before social media these discussions happened but in bars, restaurants, people's homes and I thought they were more civil more controlled - even more thoughtful - but perhaps the anger was there. It was just contained and restrained by being in public, within physical reach of other people.
As for me I am not angry - I am sad. I fear a world that will become vigorously regulated. I think out of fear of change people are giving up their freedoms and not realizing it. I told Linda last night to prepare herself for at least 6 years of strong conservative laws and actions... maybe 10 years. She is by far more liberal than I but we share a love of freedom and I think those who supported Trump and so many hard right ideas are afraid of change and want the days of Mayberry and Andy Griffith without realizing that in a global world Mayberry was a small island and fictional.
I think fear has prompted anger and hate without people realizing it.
But that is a discussion for another day.
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