For the last several years I made it a point to simply avoid the news entirely and it suits me well. It's a bit sad because I was once a huge political wonk, following everything, out going door to door for my candidates, etc... but politics in America has become unbearable.

But here we are in 2024 with the ever increasing inevitability of Donald Trump returning as our president and it literally kept me awake last night. I realize there's a full year before he'd be sworn in if he does win, but the Iowa caucus was just a dreadful reminder of all the anxiety and upheaval and mania that ensued in 2016, through his whole presidency, and then again during the 2020 election. I just feel sad that this is where we find ourselves in my country.