Our country is falling apart. The only solace is that we have not completely fallen apart and we are still free to write sentences like that, and publish them. I don't know how long that will continue.
Last weekend at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC I learned Germany was a democracy until Hitler took over. They lost that status a scant 53 days later. We are at Day 40.
Yesterday (Friday, February 28, 2025) was No Buy Day -- no using credit cards; no making purchases from Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other big box businesses. No buying gas. No buying groceries. Show the powers that be the people matter. I have not heard if it made a ripple. The news was inundated with our president meeting with President Zelenskyy from the Ukraine. If you are reading this far in the future and don't know what I am referencing that either means life got much worse and this was but a blip, or Democracy came back and we have forgotten about this meeting. I truly hope it is the latter.
As for yesterday's No Buy Day, as expected, the other side encouraged people to spend more.
Not spending money for a day was harder than we thought it would be. We don't feel like we spend money every day, but to be told NOT to spend on one specific day was a challenge.
The night before we made a quick grocery store run so we would not have to eat out or go grocery shopping on Friday. Don realized he was low on gas -- should he get gas on Thursday night, or use my car on Friday, or stay home? He opted to stay home. Today he decided to ride his bicycle to work rather than get gas.
As for me, I went through with my eye doctor's appointment, which meant paying a $10 copay and ordering a new pair of glasses while I was there ($22). Both went on the pre-paid health care card. As my eye doctor reminded me, they are a small business. With dilated eyes (they took 7 hours to return to near normal), I was not tempted to leave the house or go online. I have not been tempted to spend money today as I prepare to go to another protest.
I wonder if this was a test for our future -- as in there will be bread lines and rules about when and where we can shop, as happened in Germany as it fell to Nazism.
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