As the news of the latest shooting atrocity comes to my attention, I cannot make myself read about it.
To vote, I will. To protest, I must. I think of the profiteers of war and the need for mental health funding. I think: where have we come as a nation? Is there a way back? The disgust that I feel is enormous.
How great the need now for healing the wounds of war, psychological, physical - the opiate crisis will not go away, as those afflicted may not see hope. The voices and images of the heroes we seek seem muted by the voices of those who sow distress, and distrust of "strangers" continues to oppress us.
To paraphrase the words of Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson: I can't think of another election that I more wanted over. We must change the climate of this nation or it may not survive.
Kathryn McKenzie
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