Anger Management

Yesterday, when I was picking up my son after track practice, he hesitated before getting into the car.

"Mom? ...Are you angry?"

I didn't realize I looked angry. 

I explained that I wasn't angry with him (he was relieved). I was furious with the reality that we have a self-absorbed baboon leading the country, making one idiotic "executive order" after another, and that the government (and all of us, let's be honest) - are just stepping aside.  I was specifically furious with Bill Cassidy, a physician, who understands the harm that can come from all the anti-vaccination agenda. He still voted for Kennedy to head the Department of  Health. Isn't there Hippocratic Oath that all doctors take? Or was that thrown out together with justice and fairness? If he took that oath, how can he, in all honesty, vote to install someone that he will know be in position (and of mindset) to cause irreparable harm to our society, our children? 

I am ashamed to be an American.

I am ashamed of our society. I am ashamed of how self-absorbed and inconsiderate we are. I am ashamed of the woman with the MAGA hat on, who was blocking the parking lot at H's rock climbing gym the other day, just sitting in her car (I guess she was making the parking lot great again???) - there were parking spots, even handicapped parking spots, that she could have pulled into.....

I am ashamed that we are doing the opposite of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). We are hurting the world.

Political stability is not to be taken for granted.

Will the United States collapse and cease to exist?

Who is benefitting from the current chaos in the US government?

As citizens, should we be managing our anger while witnessing the hostile takeover of the government? One of my husband's colleagues said this was like the Cultural Revolution.

Dear readers: I am going to ask for 3 things.

1. Please maintain your integrity. Don't go along with something you know is wrong, or is a lie, just because it's easier.

2. Write poetry - make fun of the current regime.

3. Do not look away. When your neighbors are being deported, when your friends' children are being discriminated against, when those who dare to speak up are arrested - DO. NOT. LOOK. AWAY.