I'm not so sure your right to say what you want is so safe from censorship either. If you criticize Israel, you'll be side lined as an anti-semite. There are so many variant positions that you can be attacked for having and ultimately restricted from saying.
This is an incredible essay!! Your America has many similarities to my youth. I lalso loved Mr. Rodgers. He made me feel loved and safe. I am now feeling as if I'm watching and waiting for a bomb to fall. Trump and his ridiculous appointees, will do such damage! They will make America unrecognizable to the America most people knew and loved. Maybe that's Trump's goal. It's his way of making an evil mockery of the way things should be done. We all know his cabinet SHOULD consist of intelligent and experienced individuals, but he wants to go in the complete opposite direction. How in the hell is that making America great!!
Thank you for the words that I'm too devastated to articulate right now. As is so often the case, you describe my experience of both past and present so poignantly and precisely. All I've got right now is bone deep grief for the loss of that America and the hope that I still belong in the one that's left ... and the gratitude that my father passed before he had to see this happen again/still.
I'm not so sure your right to say what you want is so safe from censorship either. If you criticize Israel, you'll be side lined as an anti-semite. There are so many variant positions that you can be attacked for having and ultimately restricted from saying.
I don’t think I made the claim I’d be safe from criticism.
You hard me in tears with this one. And as he started naming his cabinet my hope feels like it’s going through a shredder.
Today was extra hard. I published this right before the Gaetz news. Which put me into scary hysterical laughter. It’s so awful.
What a beautiful, heartbreaking piece of writing. Thanking you for it through tears.
Oh, thank you so much.
Thank you, Elizabeth. I notice my black friends are not surprised by any of this.
Right. Thanks Liz.
This is an incredible essay!! Your America has many similarities to my youth. I lalso loved Mr. Rodgers. He made me feel loved and safe. I am now feeling as if I'm watching and waiting for a bomb to fall. Trump and his ridiculous appointees, will do such damage! They will make America unrecognizable to the America most people knew and loved. Maybe that's Trump's goal. It's his way of making an evil mockery of the way things should be done. We all know his cabinet SHOULD consist of intelligent and experienced individuals, but he wants to go in the complete opposite direction. How in the hell is that making America great!!
Nightmare
Thank you for the words that I'm too devastated to articulate right now. As is so often the case, you describe my experience of both past and present so poignantly and precisely. All I've got right now is bone deep grief for the loss of that America and the hope that I still belong in the one that's left ... and the gratitude that my father passed before he had to see this happen again/still.
We are indeed feeling the same things. Including happy parents not here to see it. Thanks for your very kind words.