I admire you for being able to dig deep inside and try to copewith the political arena that has become America. I can not do the same. I tried in 2016. Had tolerance for those who voted differently but at the same time, I saw that there is a deep undercurrent of hatred and prejudice and ignorance that attracts such cult leaders and they zero in like the predator they are. I'm bitter because cuts that are on the table will affect me and my family. I've seen what cuts to healthcare can do, when I was a Psychiatric home care nurse. I also saw the level of poverty that I thought didn't exist because I was comfortable in my two income, two story home on one acre of land in the woods, far from anything to remind me of poverty and despair. After visiting 5 to 7 clients a day and traveling over 200 miles a day, I would see despair, discouragement, and downright poverty. I didn't know that existed here in Northern Maine, because it didn't pertain to me until it did. Now that hatred and prejudice and ignorance is no longer undercurrent. It is big and bold and in your face, if you want to see it. I am already seeing outright comments that would have been removed by an administer of a website, but now they remain and get a lot of likes. Hatred is emboldened and the line will continue to fill as whatever ails someone will become cause for blame that it is the immigrants, the minorities, the political party, the welfare recipients etc who have taken their jobs. As an empath, i have sensitivities toward those who don't met America's ideal citizen. Not hard to do as they are my family members, my friends and members of our small community. I too don't understand how the amount of people who voted for that wretched excuse for a man, with all the damage he has done and has said he will do. I don't get it. I feel that I have seen the best of America as I am a baby boomer, and we are dying fast. My father was a WWII vet who was in Germany, he didn't talk much or at all about what he saw but he did return to make a typical post war family and life and was successful because he believed in American and the belief that all were created equal. Does anyone know where equality is now? Did it ever exist? I was born in Canada because it was the nearest hospital in our area, living on the Canadian border, so I have dual citizenship, as long as it is recognized by either country. Maybe I will be told to go back to Canada, who knows, nothing will surprise me. I'll gladly go, two of my daughters already live there. Once my obligation to my elderly mother in a nursing home is completed, I will sell our home most likely to a trumper, as most of the lands and farms have been bought by them in recent years. Healing AR15s in the night, shooting like some third- world country street warriors is very relaxing. Local people can't afford a home loan, even with two jobs at hand. So someone will eventually see our home for sale and we will move it on to whoever pays the price and we are gone. I may forget to mention a few things about the house, like the need to shovel and remove snow off the deck after every snow fall, or monitoring the cellar sump pump through out the year. Better have generator. Then there are the insects and critters that seek refuge in your warm home. Things that outsiders wanting a Maine wood experience know nothing about. I have a lot to process, how to remain true to my convictions and how to get along with others. I'm failing. So, let's focus on me and lose weight because all is better in the world if I can make changes to my BMI. Week 6 and 7 lbs down, so many more to go, once again. I'll spend my long Maine winter downsizing both body and household, and look to move to Canada next Spring. I may not wait until my mother is deceased. I have kept that life on hold for too long. If I am not able to visit her because the borders are closed, then my two other siblings, who live in Florida and Texas can come see her.
It’s beyond me how people continue to vote against their best interests time and time again. I don’t want to see anyone suffer, but maybe the only way they will learn is through natural consequences. Or maybe not, since they thought they were better off four years ago while we were in the midst of a mishandled pandemic.
Round One of MAGA crap burned me out. I’m not ready for Round Two.
Thanks for articulating what a lot of us are feeling.
I admire you for being able to dig deep inside and try to copewith the political arena that has become America. I can not do the same. I tried in 2016. Had tolerance for those who voted differently but at the same time, I saw that there is a deep undercurrent of hatred and prejudice and ignorance that attracts such cult leaders and they zero in like the predator they are. I'm bitter because cuts that are on the table will affect me and my family. I've seen what cuts to healthcare can do, when I was a Psychiatric home care nurse. I also saw the level of poverty that I thought didn't exist because I was comfortable in my two income, two story home on one acre of land in the woods, far from anything to remind me of poverty and despair. After visiting 5 to 7 clients a day and traveling over 200 miles a day, I would see despair, discouragement, and downright poverty. I didn't know that existed here in Northern Maine, because it didn't pertain to me until it did. Now that hatred and prejudice and ignorance is no longer undercurrent. It is big and bold and in your face, if you want to see it. I am already seeing outright comments that would have been removed by an administer of a website, but now they remain and get a lot of likes. Hatred is emboldened and the line will continue to fill as whatever ails someone will become cause for blame that it is the immigrants, the minorities, the political party, the welfare recipients etc who have taken their jobs. As an empath, i have sensitivities toward those who don't met America's ideal citizen. Not hard to do as they are my family members, my friends and members of our small community. I too don't understand how the amount of people who voted for that wretched excuse for a man, with all the damage he has done and has said he will do. I don't get it. I feel that I have seen the best of America as I am a baby boomer, and we are dying fast. My father was a WWII vet who was in Germany, he didn't talk much or at all about what he saw but he did return to make a typical post war family and life and was successful because he believed in American and the belief that all were created equal. Does anyone know where equality is now? Did it ever exist? I was born in Canada because it was the nearest hospital in our area, living on the Canadian border, so I have dual citizenship, as long as it is recognized by either country. Maybe I will be told to go back to Canada, who knows, nothing will surprise me. I'll gladly go, two of my daughters already live there. Once my obligation to my elderly mother in a nursing home is completed, I will sell our home most likely to a trumper, as most of the lands and farms have been bought by them in recent years. Healing AR15s in the night, shooting like some third- world country street warriors is very relaxing. Local people can't afford a home loan, even with two jobs at hand. So someone will eventually see our home for sale and we will move it on to whoever pays the price and we are gone. I may forget to mention a few things about the house, like the need to shovel and remove snow off the deck after every snow fall, or monitoring the cellar sump pump through out the year. Better have generator. Then there are the insects and critters that seek refuge in your warm home. Things that outsiders wanting a Maine wood experience know nothing about. I have a lot to process, how to remain true to my convictions and how to get along with others. I'm failing. So, let's focus on me and lose weight because all is better in the world if I can make changes to my BMI. Week 6 and 7 lbs down, so many more to go, once again. I'll spend my long Maine winter downsizing both body and household, and look to move to Canada next Spring. I may not wait until my mother is deceased. I have kept that life on hold for too long. If I am not able to visit her because the borders are closed, then my two other siblings, who live in Florida and Texas can come see her.
It’s beyond me how people continue to vote against their best interests time and time again. I don’t want to see anyone suffer, but maybe the only way they will learn is through natural consequences. Or maybe not, since they thought they were better off four years ago while we were in the midst of a mishandled pandemic.
Round One of MAGA crap burned me out. I’m not ready for Round Two.
Thanks for articulating what a lot of us are feeling.
I needed this perspective thank you.
Only correction is Trump has 5 kids. Good read Tony.
I know, but I refuse to acknowledge Eric.