I am really touched by your offering here to try and spark my hope. Really. I do appreciate it.

However, I'm a woman who's been screwed over by women in local government, and I do mean thoroughly, condescendingly, power-mad screwed over.

I don't take comfort in certain approved groups doing certain approved things. But I do take comfort in you, as an individual, trying to make me, another individual, feel better. Thank you.