I'm feeling very hopeless today. I'm feeling hopeless about the state of our nation and the direction it's headed.

I hear Democrats being happy about preserving the right to filibuster. Preserving? There should be no preserving. It's a right, pure and simple. If Democrats were in power you'd see the same Republicans who are blasing the right to filibuster singing it's praises. I'm sick of the double standard in this country. If my party's doing the screwing, it's good. If your party is, it's bad.

I'm worried because the old saying "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is showing itself to be more and more true. I'm actually afraid of what this country is going to become with several more years under this administration. My only hope is that people wake the fuck up before the next election for Senators and Representatives.

I honestly would like a real life Republican..not the ones on TV who have millions of dollars...but a middle class Republican to tell me why they think this president is doing any good, what is he doing, what will he leave behind that's of any value. He doesn't care about the environment, he doesn't care about the poor, his education plan is ridiculous, his foreign policy a joke. So if he gets his judges in the high court and manages to make abortion illegal again...is that all? Is that worth all the other problems he's ignoring, or worse yet, causing? I'm pro choice to my core, but abortion isn't THE issue to me. There are far more damaging things he can and is doing to this country than fighting to get abortion illegal. And he won't even succeed at that in my opinion. So what then? What will his legacy be?

I'm scared and worried and damn angry about where we're headed as a country.