I just want to become a hermit today
Donald Trump is holding a $2,700 a plate fund-raising lunch within two blocks of The Place on Monday. The city of Boston is closing down streets. For protection? Because they expect protesters? Because they can? I'm so terrified of what this man is doing to our country with his anti-woman, racist, xenophobic rhetoric. He's absolutely toxic. The fact that so many of my fellow Americans could even consider voting for him makes me literally sick to my stomach.
And I wake up this morning to find out that a gunman has shot 20 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL. While I'm watching CBS Sunday Morning they break in with a live press conference. The death toll may be an estimated 50 now (the bomb squad had only just cleared them to enter the club, things are still unclear), making this possibly one of the worst mass shootings on record. Let's trigger another fruitless round of blaming this on mental illness instead of our crazy "everyone must own a gun, no restrictions" gun culture that glorifies a shooter over their victims. Let's not even bother to discuss, IF he was mentally ill, why he would think that shooting a bunch of random strangers might do anything to make his life better? Why causing others pain is a solution to anything?
The shooter may be a Muslim. Cue discussions of terrorism and let's trigger another round of hatred and religious intolerance.
*sighs*
I really hate living in this country right now. What the hell has happened to us? How did we become such awful people who are so cruel to each other on such a regular basis?
I want to crawl under the covers and never come out again.
ETA - I should have turned off the TV and logged out of FB before I let myself get this bad. =(
And I wake up this morning to find out that a gunman has shot 20 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL. While I'm watching CBS Sunday Morning they break in with a live press conference. The death toll may be an estimated 50 now (the bomb squad had only just cleared them to enter the club, things are still unclear), making this possibly one of the worst mass shootings on record. Let's trigger another fruitless round of blaming this on mental illness instead of our crazy "everyone must own a gun, no restrictions" gun culture that glorifies a shooter over their victims. Let's not even bother to discuss, IF he was mentally ill, why he would think that shooting a bunch of random strangers might do anything to make his life better? Why causing others pain is a solution to anything?
The shooter may be a Muslim. Cue discussions of terrorism and let's trigger another round of hatred and religious intolerance.
*sighs*
I really hate living in this country right now. What the hell has happened to us? How did we become such awful people who are so cruel to each other on such a regular basis?
I want to crawl under the covers and never come out again.
ETA - I should have turned off the TV and logged out of FB before I let myself get this bad. =(