aches for you and everyone like you. I respect and appreciate all your posts here. Please know this.
After the stolen election of 2000, I knew that I could no longer live full-time in the country that the USA was becoming, although even I NEVER imagined that our evolution into an authoritarian state would come so fast.
I spent the post-1964 momentous 60s era living and working abroad, so missed much of the turbulence of the late 60s in the USA. But I had already seen the growing - if then limited - influence of the RRW and the evangelical churches in the early 1960s firsthand. I also lived though the JFK assassination and mourned with the nation then. So I have always been concerned about the RRW and the churches.
I returned in 1971 to a nation badly torn by the debacle in Vietnam and the Nixon era. Still there were so many rays of hope even then, and I was able to return to work abroad, where I was happiest, in summer 1980. Almost all that 1970s hope was shattered by the 1980 election of Raygun.
Upon my return to the US in fall 1982, i realized that I needed a weapon: the law. Thus I spent three years getting a law degree, which also served as my survival tactic against the RRW trend of the GOP, not yet full-blown. I specialized in international law, ultimately working with international organizations in Geneva from 1994-2007. From 2007, I exercised my option to retire in Switzerland.
Although I spend the majority of my time abroad, I also have a US residence (paying taxes in both countries, btw) so that I am able to vote in state and local elections as well as federal, and I ALWAYS vote DEM, of course. Whenever I am in the US, I also proudly participate in marches against tyranny (I am now 80+) and I worked telephones with my state Democratic Party for the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016. Alas, what could have been, if not for fraudulent elections!
While I was heartened by the election of President Biden in 2020, I was appalled when so many in his own party turned against him late in 2024. Kamala Harris ran an excellent campaign, however, and I proudly voted FOR her, truly believing that she would win!
I was appalled by the 2024 election results. Frankly, I STILL believe that there was GOPer chicanery in that election and that we will learn about it some day.
I am even more appalled (lots of being appalled lately) by the actions and policies of You-Know-Who & Goons and the fact that he is enabled in all these by a craven and cowardly GOPer-led Congress, along with a high court which I consider to be 2/3 composed of Supreme Farces, NOT Justices, by any means.
Although I myself am "white," I have always considered that ALL human beings of whatever gender, race, culture, religious (or not) persuasion, even political expression so long as that expression does NOT include violence against other living human beings, are my sisters and brothers.
I hurt WITH you, but - so far - have never had to know or experience the innate fears that you do on a daily basis. I will continue fighting for us all as much as I can, so long as I can.
But my days are numbered.
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