I'm a woman who's been a second class citizen all her life -- "second class" as opposed to, e.g., third, sixth, or tenth because I'm white and reasonably solvent -- and I'm *riveted* by the ongoing shitshow. Maybe "entertaining" isn't the best word. Would "engrossing" be better? I'm wondering, though about the "50 years of social and reg…
I'm a woman who's been a second class citizen all her life -- "second class" as opposed to, e.g., third, sixth, or tenth because I'm white and reasonably solvent -- and I'm *riveted* by the ongoing shitshow. Maybe "entertaining" isn't the best word. Would "engrossing" be better? I'm wondering, though about the "50 years of social and regulatory progress" that you refer to because I seem to have missed most of it. I cast my first presidential vote a couple of months before Roe v. Wade was decided, true, but from Reagan's first inaugural in 1981 regulatory regress has been more common than progress. I remind myself from time to time that to have adult memories of life before Reagan, one has to have been born before 1965.
No wonder I sometimes feel like Cassandra . . . There was also a sense that things were improving, often too slowly, but at least progress was being made.
Perhaps 50 years of "regulatory" progress might have been a reach, but I was thinking of what the most recent Chevron decision effect would be on the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. We can definitely count on attempts to destroy 50 years of social progress by the reactionaries on the Court.
I'm a woman who's been a second class citizen all her life -- "second class" as opposed to, e.g., third, sixth, or tenth because I'm white and reasonably solvent -- and I'm *riveted* by the ongoing shitshow. Maybe "entertaining" isn't the best word. Would "engrossing" be better? I'm wondering, though about the "50 years of social and regulatory progress" that you refer to because I seem to have missed most of it. I cast my first presidential vote a couple of months before Roe v. Wade was decided, true, but from Reagan's first inaugural in 1981 regulatory regress has been more common than progress. I remind myself from time to time that to have adult memories of life before Reagan, one has to have been born before 1965.
It's a curse, to be old enough to remember when things were good, or at least "good" if you were white.
No wonder I sometimes feel like Cassandra . . . There was also a sense that things were improving, often too slowly, but at least progress was being made.
Yes indeed.
Perhaps 50 years of "regulatory" progress might have been a reach, but I was thinking of what the most recent Chevron decision effect would be on the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. We can definitely count on attempts to destroy 50 years of social progress by the reactionaries on the Court.