highways | a quick note about my home state.

This article explains a lot of what is going on in Arizona right now, pretty accurately as far as I can tell. It does it way better than I could, anyway, because honestly it's hard to get past the rage and despair when I try to articulate stuff.

"For sheer temerity, the Grand Canyon State remains unparalleled in its monumental ruination. Following the international debacle that was SB 1070 and the national tragedy of the Tucson massacre, the state legislature has been hard at work to eliminate the vestiges of the public healthcare system, deny organ transplants to dying patients, cut educational spending to the bone, and pass titanic corporate tax cuts at the same time. ... As if to reinforce the audacity of hopelessness that has become the state's nouveau calling card, Arizona's right-wing supermajority is poised to pass Senate Bill 1433, which essentially allows the state legislature to choose which federal laws it will follow."

It also covers the half-serious attempt Southern Arizona is making to secede from Arizona itself, which I know will be reported in conservative media as evidence of what those crazy liberals are up to, but the politician who submitted the amendment had a point, man. If the Arizona legislature can just excuse itself from having to obey the federal government, why can't some of us Arizonans just ignore them?

I am actually scared, guys. You might think that's overdramatic when it comes to politics, but I don't know what else to say, man. I've lived in Arizona since I was eleven. And I'm pretty positive that once I get a chance to pick where I live, if I even still decide to live in the States, I'm going back to LA. Dude, I never thought I'd say that.