I think I’ve mentioned here before the concept that you can’t escape politics. Wanting to escape politics is fundamentally a political act.
I don’t think I have ever hidden my particular biases when it comes to politics. It doesn’t take a very close read of any of my books to realize that the capitalists are usually the baddies… some variation, of course, because there are worse and better capitalists, but there is usually a pretty clean line between moral and immoral people in my works. I’m not aiming for nuance, just fun and light.
But on days like today, where the province I live in has decided the government for the foreseeable future, the issue of politics looms closer than ever. I don’t like that I have to live in fear of what these election results really mean, but the provincial government decides funding for almost all of the services I rely on: health, education, and the arts. All under the control of a man I wouldn’t trust with my car, much less one of the most powerful positions in the country.
Ah well. Soon this will fade into the background radiation of what my life has been for decades now… just one struggle on the heels of the next. Eventually maybe things will get better.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!