When your country has slavery for 246 years and then, once slavery ends, still won’t allow former slaves to vote and then when the 15th Amendment extends voting rights to men of all races (women would still have to wait 50 years) still tries to keep Black men from voting through state laws and poll taxes and literacy tests (which is amazingly hypocritical because between 1740 and 1867 it was illegal to teach slaves to read) and
I don't believe I have any great answers for anybody else, but I intend to to do what I've always done: speak out, dissent, refuse to conform and call BS when I see it. And if I can make people laugh while doing that, so much better.
The good news (although it's taking the long view) is that the pendulum tends to swing back and forth and if history is any indicator, this won't last forever.
All of this makes me want to migrate to Greenland, if only I can find some really warm clothes and bring along my 11 year old French bulldog, Quibble.
I love that your columns bring some levity but this is a terrible time in our country. What can we do to counter this takeover?
I don't believe I have any great answers for anybody else, but I intend to to do what I've always done: speak out, dissent, refuse to conform and call BS when I see it. And if I can make people laugh while doing that, so much better.
The good news (although it's taking the long view) is that the pendulum tends to swing back and forth and if history is any indicator, this won't last forever.
He's is a racist, KKK, White surpremisist, dictator.
https://open.substack.com/pub/trumpsamerica/p/the-white-conservative-confederacy?r=kyjj&utm_medium=ios