Increasing violence against Jews, and Asians, and People of Color.

Forty-three percent of American kids don’t really know if they’ll eat this week. Sixty percent—SIXTY—of Americans say they can’t afford health insurance.

When I look at Flint Michigan all I can think is genocide. A lot of this looks like something I thought was long past.

One of the two major political parties that run this nation actively, daily, tell us that we didn’t see what we did see. Gun sales seem more important than human life. Our right to bear arms trumps our right to go to a movie without getting our brains blown out. We stopped talking about the opiate plague as Covid killed a half million people.

They told me we beat the Nazi’s and the Soviets. We are Americans. We always beat the bad guys. We are on the side of God and mom and apple pie, right?

On the Fourth of July, when the anthem plays and the Stars and Stripes are billowing in the wind, remind me again, why am I so proud?

We’ve got some work to do before my chest swells with American pride again.