Every time we elect a Republican president we have to start rolling the ball all the way back up the hill again. Every goddamn time.

Good news! Apparently a lot of excitingly new young progressives are mad we haven’t rolled it back up high enough and are refusing to help!

Wait. Okay, not good news. Sorry.

I don’t blame people for giving up on a Sisyphean task

It’s like you’re stuck in the water with a riptide pushing you away from shore. A really strong swimmer would just swim against it, but you’re not, so you swim parallel to shore because then later you can swim back in. At least it’s not pushing you further out.

Nope.

Just decide to quit and drown. This is what the young “I’ll show you by not participating” crowd sounds like to me.

I’ve been swimming sideways to get out of the riptide for 24 years now. When do I get to start swimming back to shore?

Does drowning have any chance of ever getting you back?

Does swimming parallel to the shore have a chance of ever getting me back?

It doesn’t necessarily mean getting pushed further out.

It can always get worse.