I’ve been feeling kinda down lately.  Maybe for the past two or three days.

I’m really not sure why.   I’ve been takin my mind-warping medicines.
Maybe it’s just me.   The overly familiarity of Florida newness has worn off quickly.

It could just be the heat.   92 degrees, but feels like 100.

My arms have started hurting a bit and the left side of my back.   While the pain doesn’t bother me, knowing that the pain is there is frustrating.  I guess that’s kind of strange.   It’s just an irritation.

I think the overriding factor is politics.
I hate to admit that.   Traditionally, politics were pushed to the back.  Politics are for rich people.  Us poor don’t have much say over what’s going on and just have to respond, somehow.

But, that’s not how this is going this year.
Clans of super rich people are stalking us backed by even more rich people in the background.  Voting for the presidential election is almost to the point of voting for the next color of M&Ms.

I have little faith that the president will be known on November 4th.   Actually, I don’t think that we’ll know in November at all.   It’ll just keep going all the way up till January – to the day where the president stays or vacates.

I understand the need for mail-in ballots.  And, if it was any other year, they probably would be okay.  But, not this year.   There’s too much riding on the left and the right.  There’s no way that the vote would be fair and accurate.

The more people who vote, the more effort it will take to count, the more likely the results will be altered and just wrong.

That’s a bad line of thought.  People should be able to vote if they want.   The system is being used as a noose.

The categorizations bother me.
If you’re anti-mask, you’re automatically right.   Pro-abortion?  You’re left.
Interested in helping the economy?  Right.  Want to be the ‘savior’ of humanity by staying home? Left.

It’s stereotypes.

For a society that is trying to denounce stereotypes about gender and skin colour, they’re quickly making up stereotypes to fill in the vacuum.   Rather, old stereotypes are boiling to the surface.

If someone has a good figure, she’s a slut.
Teachers are prudes.
Muscular guys are dumb.
Bearded men are hicks.
Japanese/Asians are super smart.
Fat people are mentally slow.

Of  course, there are going to be stereotypes.
Not all are bad.   Not all are good.
But, it creates a type of familiarity to allow us to interact with each other.

Unfortunately, it’s not always a positive interaction.  It’s the bad that really stands out.

We focus on the bad.

It’s unfortunate.

But, our critical thinking skills are being diminished.  .

Public education doesn’t encourage self-evaluation.   College certainly don’t.   The parents have a hard time with it because they never properly got a good grasp of it themselves.

I don’t know.

I detest socialism and communism.
But, maybe that’s what America has evolved into.

Bobbleheads.