This One Goes Out To The Dreamers

If you’re like me, you’ve watched the rapid unraveling of American society over the past six years with a heady, all-consuming cocktail of embarrassment, shame, anger, and fear (and sometimes wine). It’s rattling how much has changed so quickly; QAnon didn’t exist a few years ago, but now it has your grandfather’s brain and there’s a cult in Dallas waiting for the promised return of—checks notes—John F. Kennedy, Jr; there is an incredibly good chance that Roe v. Wade is on the verge of being overturned, putting reproductive autonomy on the chopping block for millions of American women; there’s a global pandemic that has taken upwards of two million American lives and cost American women almost a million and a half jobs, and most of the ones we’ve recovered have been in low-paying service roles; Nazis are back. My head’s spinning just thinking about it.