I have so many emotions about the politics of today. I spent my morning watching Senate livestreams out of Texas, then came home to the final tense hour. I blogged a lot and talked a lot and posted a lot, and then we heard that they'd voted illegally on the abortion Bill and we raged and made online revolution, watching a livestream of one of the protesters inside the building, until the CEO of Planned Parenthood announced that she had recieved a text from Wendy Davis that the Governor had killed the Bill.

Phew.

But one issue down, another pops up.

Labor spill, Rudd taking over as PM, Gillard out. At first, I didn't know what I wanted, I was so confused because Kevin07 and Mum being such a Rudd/Labor supporter but I did my Rudd digging and all the reasons he was taken out as Labor leader and realised he is not who I want as PM. And I really like Gillard ok? It's not just the woman thing, though of course her being first female Prime Minister is important (if it couldn't be me, I'm glad it was her). As she said, it wasn't everything but it wasn't nothing either, and sophisticated analysis and discourse is needed to determine the shades of grey.

So she lost and I am unhappy about that outcome, because I don't want a vote of no confidence, I do not want Abbott, even though at this point I was resigned to that outcome once we vote in the election. My vote there won't matter, I am in a firmly Labor electorate, if I vote Labor or Greens or Independent, it won't matter to anything but statistics.

Then there is the VRA, the American Voting Rights Act, which bad things happened to that I really can't be fucked to take the time to explain, but it's bad. As a white, middle class feminist, this doesn't affect me directly, but as an intersectional feminst (aka gender isn't just a battle on its one--race, class, sexuality, physical/mental health, all of that affects priviledge and lack there of. Should I  be celebrating a minor abortion win when major discrimination is happening against minority races, against the poor, the old, the mentally disabled, and nobody cares? It's not going viral, its not making waves. White middle class feminists, which I am, which a lot of people are, they don't care, not like they do when it affects them directly.

But they should and it's sad that they (we) don't.

Not to mention all the other shit happening in the world. Greece, holy fuck, and Brazil and England and guess what, tomorrow it all starts again as the Supreme Court debates the legality of gay marriage with Prop 8.

It doesn't end and it's quite overwhelming. And the sad thing is that tomorrow people will stop blogging about it, will stop caring. All the talk of revolution and passion, it won't last, not really.