I mean I thought like “Oh great, blue tsunami. Surely I would stop being depressed and juse ride the wave and be happy right? There’s hope!” I mean the logical part of my brain does see the “atmosphere” much better already.
But then emotionally its still the same darkness, maybe just one shade lighter than before, but the depression is from somewhere else.
I guess the consolation to my depression is that my state has a blue trifecta from the election so minimum wage is gonna go up to $15 but its done in phases incrementally so its only $15 by 2029, also automatically tied to inflation once the $15 is in effect so future increases is automatic and does not require governor or state legislature to be blue again.
One factor is likely that you’re on Lemmy, which worsens my mental health at times too. Particularly the backlash from many users on here who rushed out of the woodwork to tell us that we shouldn’t have hope after the blue wave happened. I don’t get the impression that many of them have good intentions.
That could be true, but it could also be that they are stuck in a pessimistic mindset, and or lost hope themselves. There’s good to be found in what’s been happening. And worldwide these right wing nut jobs are being rejected. Don’t let anyone else tell you whether or not something deserves celebration. You can absolutely agree to disagree with pessimistic types.
To be fair I think a decent chunk of it is just people who genuinely dont have faith in democrats and were swallowing it until after the election because the election alone isnt enough to fix all thats broken, so we can’t drop the rope and call the job done.
The election had to happen this way to make change, but the election alone isn’t salvation. Its a long road.
Folks love to call it bad faith if you’re critical prior to the election, so its frustrating for people to also think its bad faith if you then voice critisism after the election
No one should have a problem with criticism alone. I don’t. What I have a problem with are the dickheads who literally will say nothing helpful at all, and their only input is how Democrats won’t do anything better than before. They’re not warning us or suggesting we call or write anyone, they’re telling us nothing good will happen, and never how to improve anything.
I actually have noticed that most of the users doing this were already tagged in my client before, because I’d already seen them spreading gloom and rage. So it wasn’t really a big surprise that the individuals were doing it, but it did surprise me how many were. Previously, I had tagged them instead of blocking them, specifically because I don’t want to simply ignore “criticism”, but now that I have seen those completely unhelpful users lashing out, literally trying to tell others they’re stupid for having hope, I’ve just started blocking people who are like that. Notable is that I haven’t tagged you, so I for one have not noticed you doing this.
I absolutely agree with you. This is just the beginning, theres a lot of work to do. There’s no time for rest yet. Keeping the pressure on is necessary. It’s not fair to expect to have it both ways. And people do need to be able to express how they’re feeling. It would be good if they tried not to alienate people though. The more that can be recruited to champion the cause the better. There’s shaking an angry fist at a cloud, kinda posting and then there’s rallying the comrades to action, kinda posts. If people don’t trust Democrats, (smart, they are politicians after all), encourage them to keep the pressure on.