BPcyclist, you are such a great person. However, I really dont feel that people should never try to come together to defeat incompetence for the future because there will be pushback.. I think it was mostly self interest and short sightedness that caused this covid chaos to get out of control. I totally agree with the idea all it requires for things to go wrong is for good people to do nothing. That has been true forever.
They postponed the Dem convention. Now maybe a real contender will throw his or her hat in the race. If the Reps think Trump cant win, they might put someone forward that has a chance--uniikely as that might be at this late date.
BP, you were totally traumatized by those evil folk ganging up on you, making your life miserable. Sometimes its better to survive to strive another day as you have done. If you had been able to get a big enough group that they had exploited together, with good legal representation, you might have made some inroads. It always depends on the situation.
I can only do the small things right now myself to keep things going in my life. However, there are people on these forums who can do more than I can to make things better and make sure these things and worse dont happen again. How can we go on if we dont believe that?
My brother almost died from stage 4+ cancer and he took the frustration from that to become Board Chair of the Am Cancer Society. He and members and scientists all over the world have done SO much to beat cancer. He USED his anger and pain. Fern is homeschooling her kids. I keep my ex alive for his son and his grandkids. Most of us are doing as much as we can.
What I dont like to see happening is this Zen seeming thing of lets just look at flowers and let the incompetents go unnoticed. No way. Flowers are good to help keep us going, but I say we should be as active as we can and VOTE at the very least.