Guest Editorial: What's a New Year?

[In an effort to reflect on a very tumultuous year, the Mercury
asked several Portlanders to look back on their 2020 and share how their lives have changed and what they've taken away from their experiences. Mac Smiff is a political activist, and the editor of We Out Here Magazine
. Here is his 2020 story.—eds]
To be fair, I don’t usually put much thought into rolling from one year to the next. A few standard resolutions and some celebratory inebriation is about all of the attention I care to give to the unavoidable annual reset of the Gregorian calendar. 2019 was a particularly precarious year though, complete with clear indications of societal decline. For once, against my better judgment, I stepped into 2020 thinking, “Things can’t get much worse!”

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