Ugh

Ugh. That's about all that one can say some days. In Portland, Oregon (my kind of town because it's my home town), unidentified, uninvited federal officers dressed in combat gear are taking protestors off the streets and escorting them away in unmarked cars. Ugh. I guess I could add WTF! What do we need to do? Call out the National Guard to protect us from the Federal Gestapo squads? Civil war in the making, every state for itself? The news is that these goons shot one man with their "nonlethal ammunition" and that man is still in the hospital. So much for nonlethal. Nor, apparently, was he committing any crime when he was shot. Wrong place wrong time. Ugh, ugh, ugh. It's exhausting, isn't it? One begins to wonder at this point whether we will even make it to election day and a chance to get out from under all this, a chance at least to begin to dig ourselves out. Four months seems an eternity.