One bright spot in the country right now is the sight of union workers rising up and peacefully protesting anti-labor Republican policies, and some Democrats finally growing a spine and resisting as well.
I feel a little better about this. I'm not going to be content until those Rethuglicans are thoroughly marginalized politically, however; they've been wrecking my country since Nixon.
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