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Maryooch's avatar

Good morning. I read your daily articles with a mixture of anticipation and dread. In fact, that's pretty much how I face each day, getting out of bed. I appreciate your perspective, and the perspective of others; it helps me form my own.

What I can't handle, though, and it's effecting me harder than I realized it would, is having my reputation, reliability, compassion, willingness to serve, and work ethic tied up in American "maga". To the question of "when are you going to do something about it?" - that rests with Congress, and in extreme cases, I guess, the military? Are we going to need a military coup? I've written, cajoled, shouted at and demanded answers from my elected officials. I've attended rallies. Will be going to the "big one" on April 5.

The Republican party in this country has obviously gone off the rails, and it is completely irredeemable. We will find out, and slowly are (note the anti-gay Republican who was just outed as gay), that everyone in that party has a secret, and they are willing to sell out their country to keep it, to hold onto their "power", to get all the perks of being in Congress without doing any of the work.

When are we going to do something about it? We are trying. We're writing, phoning, we're out in the streets, but you don't see much of it on mainstream media. We are doing what we can within the confines of the law. The problem is, we're the only ones obeying them.

I guess I just wanted to ask that our neighbors and friends remember that a great, great many of us hate what's going on, and we are doing what is available to us to do. We wake up and start our days heartbroken. We feel shame that we don't even own. We sometimes cry ourselves to sleep at night. And in between, we do what we possibly can.

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🇨🇦Laura Stavro🇨🇦's avatar

If only this was an April Fools joke.

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