Thank you for such a thoughtful response! I found the covid handling so appalling that I left a good life to start from scratch on raw land. Much of what my husband I do here - permaculture, community, work choices - is geared toward making this world, or at least our corner of the world, better for future generations. So I'm with you fully on that. I've also come to believe that there are areas in which we do have power to reverse the current extreme governmental overreach: in the communities we build, the systems we support, the money we use.
What I'm not sure of is whether voting is one of those.
If I had to choose it would be RFK, probably mostly because of his intelligence and personal integrity. This is how I see it: DNC choice will happily sell us out to the highest bidder, Trump can be manipulated into doing so, and RFK might actually put up a fight before conceding. I do wonder if his stance on Israel is an example of him conceding.
In 2020 I held my nose and voted for Biden, thinking him the lesser of two evils (ha!) and also betting that once Dems were in charge maybe they would calm down about covid (haha!!!). I was so wrong, and I regret my vote. I don't think it would have been much better to vote for Trump, so I am inclined to think that it would have been better to just not participate.
In any case, I appreciate your note and may re-read it before November.
Good for you for refusing the jab even at the expense of your job 🤩. I hope that a new set of options has opened for you.
Take care-