History Sure Does Rhyme

I had a talk with my therapist the other day about the Dems sweeping the US midterms, turning even red-Texas blue. I made a comment to him that I really hope the country doesn't fall into this honeymoon phase like we did with Obama-era politics, with all the optimism, but missing the realism. "Funny you mention that, I was on youtube and was looking at the comments and a lot of people were expressing that it was that feeling of seeing Obama get elected. You kinda nailed that observation." I couldn't help but let out an exhausted "yeah...". Don't get me wrong, I'd take Obama-era optimism over whatever the fuck is wrong with us now. But golly-gee have we learned nothing? We can't just hope our way out of fascism and the neoliberal death spiral this country is on. We gotta actually do stuff. It's the old saying that "those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it", but in reality history rarely repeats itself, but it certainly rhymes. Even things like fashion sense seems to kinda…

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