Unfathomable Sadness in the "Land of the Free"

And How We Arrived at this Desperate Feeling

Several times a day, I tear up. I read a story about kindness, and my eyes well up with water as my heart beats faster with each following word. America is completely mired in hatred from the MAGA ghouls. There is not a single member of the cabinet in F47’s administration who spends any time being kind. Their abject cruelty clutches the entire soul of the country, strangling it of oxygen. I can’t catch my breath when I tear up.

If you’re paying attention (and you should if you’re not), then there’s no way you can take in the information about our country's treatment of other humans and feel good about it. If you’re someone saying, “he’s doing what we want,” as I hear from my one remaining sibling on this planet, then you are a racist and a horrible demon with zero kindness to be found anywhere in your being. I abhor people who think ANY of this is OK. We are so far from the Americans who worked together in the 1940s to fight fascism and Hitler, via the German people (MAGA now), attempt to overtake Europe while annihilating Jewish people. Currently, Latinos are the scapegoats in this 21st century version of the hellscape of nazism. It’s sickening. My entire life in California has been surrounded by people from Mexico and other parts of Central and South America who are here to work and be free of several hellscapes in their countries of origin. They are happy people doing EXCELLENT work in restaurants, landscaping, hotels, hospitality, and various other service jobs that GIVE BACK to America tenfold of what we give them.

The bill passed on Thursday by RePUGniCONs sets in place a series of horrible new laws unrelated to the budget. We’ve been focused on the loss of Medicaid, which they neatly tucked into starting on a date post the 2026 midterm election. I see why this is an important part to focus on, but there are other, even more heinous aspects of this bill.

I hum “Killing Me Softly,” but I mean it to sound like a Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, version of the song with yelling out loud. I need that therapy.