And I don't mean to suggest you are wrong. Yours is the optimistic take. Mine is not. I'm nearly 70 years old. I do not care to "Stay Together" with people who are undermining civil rights, banning books and honest history, making death threats and carrying out domestic terrorism, creating a libertarian nightmare of this country. I don't…
And I don't mean to suggest you are wrong. Yours is the optimistic take. Mine is not. I'm nearly 70 years old. I do not care to "Stay Together" with people who are undermining civil rights, banning books and honest history, making death threats and carrying out domestic terrorism, creating a libertarian nightmare of this country. I don't want compromise with those ideologies. I swear those folks would walk over a starving child on their way to the coffee shop. Once I stopped to help a black man in a wheelchair get across an intersection. I chatted with him on the other side; someone had hit and run him with their car, crushing his ankle and foot. He was already in the wheelchair when they did it, but now his foot was swollen making life even more difficult. He had no support, no medical care...no help. He was covered in a dirty blanket. He didn't ask, but I gave him some money, which he refused to accept until I put it in his pocket. I did what I could for him and what he would allow. He was a proud man and said, "I'll get by." At the end I hugged him in his chair. The man suddenly burst into tears and I'll never forget what he said, "God bless you for touching me. Nobody here will touch me." The city in which I live is considered the "Christian," right-wing Mecca of the USA. We literally have hundreds of right-wing religious organizations here because the city council decided to make it a tax-haven for them. Not one of those fine Christians lifted a hand to help this man or lift his spirit. I don't want to make nice with that.
And I don't mean to suggest you are wrong. Yours is the optimistic take. Mine is not. I'm nearly 70 years old. I do not care to "Stay Together" with people who are undermining civil rights, banning books and honest history, making death threats and carrying out domestic terrorism, creating a libertarian nightmare of this country. I don't want compromise with those ideologies. I swear those folks would walk over a starving child on their way to the coffee shop. Once I stopped to help a black man in a wheelchair get across an intersection. I chatted with him on the other side; someone had hit and run him with their car, crushing his ankle and foot. He was already in the wheelchair when they did it, but now his foot was swollen making life even more difficult. He had no support, no medical care...no help. He was covered in a dirty blanket. He didn't ask, but I gave him some money, which he refused to accept until I put it in his pocket. I did what I could for him and what he would allow. He was a proud man and said, "I'll get by." At the end I hugged him in his chair. The man suddenly burst into tears and I'll never forget what he said, "God bless you for touching me. Nobody here will touch me." The city in which I live is considered the "Christian," right-wing Mecca of the USA. We literally have hundreds of right-wing religious organizations here because the city council decided to make it a tax-haven for them. Not one of those fine Christians lifted a hand to help this man or lift his spirit. I don't want to make nice with that.