It's a fine line between galvanizing voters and demoralizing them. They want money, so they want to scare you a bit, but also make you a part of their "team". I've never been a team sport player, so all the rah rah doesn't do much for me, and I'm already scared, thank you very much. Somehow the ten emails a day I receive depress me, and I now delete them. Every few days I give some money, but the sense of being part of something has been lost. To me it feels like a bad dream that I wish were over. Fatigue has set in, and my hope quotient is at empty. Frankly, I have no ideas about how the candidates might do it better. If we had a reasonable cap on election spending that would help, but people always get around these hurdles. We could feed the world or we can continue this circus onslaught of promises, and threats and empty speech.
Empty speech is draining. It hollows me out inside and what gets filled up is despair. I'm meditating and attempting to pay attention to birds and cats on front porches and ignore the chaos. I have to protect myself.
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