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I am so DONE part 3

Nikki Broadwell
3 min readSep 29, 2021

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The hold-up in congress regarding EVERYTHING dems are trying to do plus the looming debt ceiling problem that the Republicans take NO responsibility for, is making me a little bit crazy. No, scratch that, a LOT crazy. Why doesn’t anybody yell about this farcical clown show? It was Trump and their party that raised the debt ceiling, not once, not twice, but three times in four years! And now McConnell has the audacity to say it’s the dems problem? This time in our history is exhausting, depressing and just plain wrong. If we don’t get this right, this ship is going down.

I am a right brain person in a left brain world. My emotions are on high alert, tears coming way too easily. I see people running in the woods their voices carrying as they talk about inanities and I wonder: do they understand what this shit means? Do they even care about their future or the future of the human race? Where is all the outrage? Are there protests going on? Because if so, I don’t read about those. What I read about is how 2022 is heading into a black hole of Trumpism and how Biden did a shitty job getting us out of Afghanistan (not sure how long we were expected to stay there — indefinitely?) and how Trump has a shadow presidency going on. Our news has turned into entertainment with no investigative reporting and no good news anywhere because those headlines don’t create fear and outrage. I understand the need to distract —…

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Nikki Broadwell
Nikki Broadwell

Written by Nikki Broadwell

In my real life I’m a fantasy/mystery author. What I’ve written so far on Medium have been political opinion pieces. But that is changing!

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