(#6361) I love my country but hate what trump and republicans are doing to it!

      Like being between a rock and a hard place. My country is the hopes and dreams of the oppressed who seek freedom, liberty, and justice. It is also the home of the privileged who don't understand their own historical place within it. These two concepts are unfortunately in competition for what our future will be like. It just shakes me to my core when I see folks who think they are what America is and not what we each think our nation is for us. Their privilege is oozing from them in ways that make we want to vomit! It is a mind gone undeveloped. Their ideal of narrowness is in opposition with the expansiveness the rest of us demand!
     Each of us has a say in how we manifest our futures. In our private spaces we are welcome to live our pursuit of happiness without doing harm. In our public spaces we adhere to principles of democracy where each and everyone of us is equal in our being. Instead, in the public spaces, we are being herded toward the directives of others without our freedom and liberty to pursue with doing no harm. Anything that unjustly discriminates for one discriminates for all. So if laws are passed to curtail equality to conform to ideologies that we do not all hold then the nature of our government and society has been compromised. There cannot be laws that hold one ideal above another when both ideals are the same.
     I will truthfully admit that after I learned that trump was going to be president for the first time I seriously considered moving to Canada. Such was my utter gut punched feeling. But after a week or so I recovered from my gut painfully hollow void and reinvigorated myself into a determination to fight back against trump and his willful plans to uproot our democracy and install himself as a king. We, and I mean a vast majority of us fought back and won in 2018 and then again in 2020. We regained our democracy but were not careful enough to protect it again from trump. He is now doing his worst to finish what he failed to do in his first term. Again, I and the rest of we the people are fighting to once and for all put the chaos and destruction of trump in a place where it will never again become a threat. Happy 250th Independence Day!