It's hard to feel optimistic about even the most positive developments when you've spent the last few months watching your nation's founding document and supreme law completely fail to protect the most basic human rights of an entire state's population.
For Virginians, the sacred freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights rendered null and void by nothing more than a single state election cycle, and the first thing the tyrants did after taking power is set to work to ensure that their party never loses another election.
What can you do when you're too small to fight back and too poor to leave?
It's not like we ignored pandemic-era warnings to flee a woke city full of subway trains and skyscrapers. We live within a mile of a cow pasture and a national forest. Wherever you go, the woke mind-virus will find you. You can run but you can't hide.
A few days shy of 251 years ago, a famous Virginian asked his neighbors, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"
The 2026 response to that question is apparently a resounding "Yes!"
Forbid it, Almighty God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rngx_PsPxkg