This is NOT my happy blog. Read at your own risk. Or just look at the pictures.
There are many reasons for me to dislike the current administration. Fear is at the top of the list though. I fear for my friends and family who are discriminated against to the point of needing to fear for their own lives. I fear that I will not be able to vote in the next election because I am female. I fear the prices rising and my inability to afford things like food. I fear that the little bit of money I have in my 401K will dimminish as the market fails. I fear that people are disappearing and they shouldn't be and I could be one of them. I fear the closing of National Parks that could become strip mines, oil fields, or dumps. I don't want to be a part of the country that we seem to be becoming. I liked the way it was headed... maybe ten years ago?
I like the things that were fought for. Things like gay marriage, women's rights, the Constitution, freeing slaves, Social Security, National Parks, education, civics class, democracy, and so many other things.
Somethings that made impressions on me:
- A woman was holding an anti-abortion sign. Some people were chanting at her, "My body, my choice." She had some help leaving. I'm not sure why she was there. She seemed too timid to be alone in this particular crowd. I felt a little bad for her. But not as bad as I feel for the people who have that kind of fear just surviving. The people who have fear just walking down the street because they are different in one way or another. Like the legal immigrants who are getting their visas taken from them. Or like people in the LGTBQ+ community. But still, perhaps someone should have instead asked her if she was lost?
- The amount of people older than me that remember the 1960's and the things the nation fought for that are now threatened, as well as the veterans, and the young children.
- A sign that read, "You can't spell Felon without F-Elon."
- Some people were holding American flags upside down. I'm sure they have reasons, but I find it disrespectful. I want my flag back. Every republican that displays it as if it is a flag of the party rather than the country also disrespects it in my opinion. It is the flag of the United States of America. It belongs to ALL the people in this country. The men, women, trans, intersex, straight, gay, Jews, Hindus, Pagans, Christians, etc.
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