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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have been walking around with a deep sadness today
I just can't shake it. As the child of a refugee and an immigrant myself, I have suffered first hand what war does to both the people fighting it and their families. We never should have gotten to this point. What the fuck is wrong with the god damn republicans? As a citizen I apologize to the world. Most of us would love to sit at the table with you and bask in both our diversity and yet sameness.
We all long for shelter, to be clothed, nourishment , education, health care and most of all, community.
To my sisters and brothers in Iran, I do not support trump, in fact I abohor what he is doing. It weighs heavily that I am a citizen of a nation that will commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Grim Chieftain
(1,922 posts)I have been at wit's end today. It's like our country, its values, its democratic principles have been shredded, and what's worse, it has been allowed to happen. My heart breaks.
musette_sf
(10,498 posts)Also the child of a refugee and immigrant.
gopiscrap
(24,768 posts)my mom was a German refugee and I am a German immigrant
musette_sf
(10,498 posts)He was in a German forced labor camp till the end of the war in the European theater, then went to a DP camp in Germany till he came over to the US. I and my two closest in age siblings were born before he got his US citizenship. I remember mail sent to him from the government addressed to Alien.
All of the current events are bringing up cellular memory for me and Im not having an easy time of it.
gopiscrap
(24,768 posts)I still have my alien registration card
JMCKUSICK
(6,463 posts)LoisB
(13,224 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,805 posts)AZ8theist
(7,513 posts)Also, great user name!!
FoxNewsSucks
(11,873 posts)I have little hope it will ever end, much less any time soon.
bdamomma
(69,596 posts)against this sick immoral regime.
mountain grammy
(29,118 posts)this is so out of control and I feel helpless to stop it.. I'm bitching about gas prices and all prices, but shit, nobody's bombing my city.. endless tears..
Wild blueberry
(8,348 posts)Thank you for your eloquent post.
ananda
(35,372 posts)They are completely amoral.
BidenRocks
(3,427 posts)BidenRocks
(3,427 posts)Now it is on a (wait for it), a Two Week Delay!
MustLoveBeagles
(17,031 posts)For now.
Until he's laid to rest.
IN A TAN SUIT.

calimary
(90,465 posts)And in an unmanicured part of the cemetery, where the grass can grow unmowed.
NH Ethylene
(31,384 posts)I'm glad to see he is TACO'ing, and I expected that would be the case, but it still feels like we are on a precipice. Anything could happen anytime.
The only consolation is that this one last statement about ending their civilization, has really shaken the world, and there is the littlest chance that a groundswell will get him out of office.
BarbD
(1,474 posts)This is not a game. Playing with real lives is no game. I am disgusted and ashamed to call myself an American.
Spazito
(55,852 posts)thank you for this, it is very powerful in it's own right.
Skittles
(172,389 posts)my mum survived bombs as a child during WWII and that sense of fear never left her
I detest repukes acting like war is some kind of fucking game, shame on them ALL for pimping for that unhinged nutcase.
BradBo
(1,040 posts)Passages
(4,364 posts)It has been and continues to be an emotional rollercoaster.
Clouds Passing
(8,137 posts)All who are born on this earth are equally deserving of the resources she has to offer. No one person deserves any more than any other. This consciousness needs to become the reality for all inhabitants of Earth.
The drive to take it all is a disease.