As a die-hard liberal, I have found myself a bit surprised at my own disgust over this political season. Eight years ago—before I had a child, while I was still in college—I was a huge anti-Bush activist, organizing local community events and protests, making signs and stickers for my friends to use, and generally being angry every moment of every day while Dubya was in office.
Today I’m still angry at politicians policing the bodies of all women, policing the rights of people to get married and be happy, and generally policing everything they legally can about us. I think the public education system is a farce that exists to help them control us and keep us docile—from the glorified nationalism to the “approved” curricula used—and though I’m not even yet thirty, I find myself tired of it all. Isn’t just SSDD, after all?
