The world has changed dramatically in the past two and a half years. It seems ridiculous to pretend otherwise. But I vowed to try and post various things, more regularly. Then as I was working on a few ideas for this week, the shootings in El Paso and Dayton occurred and I realized how impossible it is for me to post what I'd planned in the cold light of such tragedy. Anything I came up with would be so trivial it would feel obscene.
There have been 255 mass shootings in the United States so far this year. The current occupant of the Oval Office never once mentions the idiocy of a citizenry that is allowed to walk the streets with assault rifles in their hands. His language during his rallies and the endless racism contained in his tweets speak through the cold hearts of red hats and manifestos of killers. He uses it freely.
There have been 255 mass shootings in the United States so far this year. The current occupant of the Oval Office never once mentions the idiocy of a citizenry that is allowed to walk the streets with assault rifles in their hands. His language during his rallies and the endless racism contained in his tweets speak through the cold hearts of red hats and manifestos of killers. He uses it freely.
The Trump-ruled American government also demonstrated heartlessness by raiding several poultry plants in Mississippi and detained almost 700 law-abiding workers, but undocumented, workers. The raids terrorized the detainees, their families.
The responsibility squats like a poisonous toad on his shoulders.
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This man has drawn a clear line across humanity.
It is up to each one of us to decide where to stand.
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This man has drawn a clear line across humanity.
It is up to each one of us to decide where to stand.
