I couldn't stand the sense of victimization that infuses this place. It is omnipresent. It defines DailyKos. I am absolutely sick of it.
Everybody has a grievance, and their own particular grievance is paramount. It's all about me. As a person of color. As a person with disability. As a person who came to this country illegally. As a person who wants to live with another person of the same sex, and get all the tax benefits...even though people who live with another person of the opposite sex don't.
Everyone is a victim here.
It gets tiring.
You know what I am a victim of? The economy. I turned 58 today, and I have a job...but it's a far cry from jobs I have held in the past. I'm earning much less. I suspect that many in my age brackett are as well. But I'm not Black. And I'm not gay, and I'm not TG, and I'm not the son of illegal immigrants, I don't have ADHD, I don't have PTSD, I don't have lyme disease, nor am I bi-polar.
I'm just a regular guy.
Watching my salary decrease every year.
And watching my political party ignore me. I'm not part of the demographic that they care about. My numbers are decreasing, and so it seems I become less important.
The flip side is that my party affiliation becomes less important. I have eyed my party in exactly the same terms that it has eyed me. As they have considered me more or less expendable, so have I considered them.
My party doesn't even speak to me these days. They speak past me, to the fringe they feel they need to lock in in order to win the next election. And they have been doing this for at least 25 years.
So...yeah...I am done with this place, but I'm not done with the Democratic Party. The only alternative is the GOP. Which also doesn't speak to me.
Nobody, it seems, does.