Won't Pass for Flowers
It's a difficult thing watching your country pull itself to pieces. Watching neighbors post signs in support of bullying and lies. Hearing politicians - local, state and federal - shuck and jive to avoid taking either responsibility or a meaningful stance. Hearing friends and colleagues offer half-baked defenses of atrocities. Browsing professional media sites like LinkedIn where everyone seems to live in a rose-colored world, going about business as usual, deaf and blind to the suffering of "the least of these." When did the emotional state of the comfortable bubble over into spite and hate? Who convinced the middle class that the most needy in their communities were stealing from them? How does one square basic decency with the violence inflicted on unarmed people? When will the supporters of this movement come to understand that the actions they cheer on will one day turn against them and cause them to suffer not at the hands of their enemies but at the hands of tho...