I’ve needed to take some time for myself. I’m watching my homeland collapsing in front of my eyes. I’m seeing how the FBI has been weaponized against political candidates, how the Supreme Court Justices are being protested by their homes, how children are being “dragged” to pride and exposed to pornography. I’m seeing how our cultural values have vaporized, that we believed that a three year old is more capable of choosing life-altering medical procedures and unknown medical, social, and spiritual consequences than an adult is in owning a gun. I’m seeing how afraid, angry, and unwilling everyone has become to even talk in civilized tones. I’m seeing that the assumption of any disagreement to this new agenda of normalizing the sexualization of children is based in “transphobia” or “homophobia” or “white supremacy.”
I’m sick of seeing the country I love being sold for profit by the largest corporations, with the full blessing and backing of the federal government, purging any sort of dissent, curbing the freedoms of the people to speak freely. I’m sick of seeing that anyone concerned with the exploding prices of food, gas, materials, are labeled conspiracy theorists and idiots because they dared to ask questions. I’m sick of seeing that there are fewer and fewer places where I can feel free to speak my mind. And yet, the more I am pushed to give into the lies that are being heralded as truth, the less I care, and the more I dig in.
I will not give them the satisfaction of losing my nerve, or my mind. I am angry, I am upset, and I am going to care less about being neutral about my beliefs. If the radicals that have pulled the narrative so far to the left, that the ideas of self-sufficiency, family, honor, morals, ethics, and hard work are considered right-wing, then I will need to push back to reclaim even some modicum of ground.
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