For most of the last four years, I've been living a life of pessimism and anxiety.
But in the last week, like a sudden wave, things started to change...
- On June 26th, the Supreme Court ruled for nationwide marriage equality in the US. To say this is a relief is an understatement: For the first time in my life, I can finally marry someone that I love and travel from coast to coast without having my relationship forcibly divorced by going over a state line.
- The Supreme Court upheld tax credits in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by a solid 6:3 margin, bringing an end to a ludicrous lawsuit waged with the support of Christian-nationalist Republican congressmen who are content for their constituents to die so that they can lob pot shots at the President.
- The Confederate Battle Flag, the swastika-esque symbol devised by treasonous, belligerant 19th-century slaveholders and embraced by white supremacists battling against integration, secularism, and the modern world a century later, has been the subject of a long-overdue pushback by governments, grassroots organizers, and corporate entities.
- The big state of California moved to eliminate vaccination exemptions, preventing children from being harmed by their parents' superstitions and social contract denial.
- There's even encouragement up north in Canada, where a Stephen Harper-named PAC shut down after less than a week of existence and the social-democratic NDP has started leading polls as an election looms.
Are these signs that the world is actually starting to get better at last? I hope, I hope, I hope!
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