Do you share my sense of dread about the year ahead? If not, why not? 1/
At this point I'm not personally all that afraid of Covid. I do know vaxxed/boosted people who've had breakthrough cases, but both anecdotes and the available data say that these cases are usually mild. For those acting responsibly, we're down to normal-risks-of-life levels 2/
Longer term I'm terrified of climate change. But at this point that fear has been overtaken by the near-term risk of political catastrophe right here in America 3/
We've always had ideological conflict, and these conflicts have often been won by people with bad ideas and sometimes by people with bad motives. But now half our political spectrum is controlled by a faction that is ruled not by ideology but by the will to power 4/
We had an attempted coup a year ago; the GOP has now essentially endorsed that attempt and is preparing the ground for future cancelation of democracy. GOP policy on vaccines is a combination of bottomless cynicism and deep crazy 5/
Despair is not a plan. Nobody should give up. But if you aren't extremely worried, you aren't lying attention 6/
"paying" attention 7/
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