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Jenn's avatar

As a Canadian, I look at the US elections with great concern. My thoughts are with you all and your country. We have our own similar fight to come next year. Great and interesting writing, as always. Very best wishes.

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Sadly, as in Nazi Germany, even otherwise good people the world over can be brainwashed to believe an authoritarian can solve all the problems by scapegoating "the Other." I think many of them are religious people who bow to a church authority, so they don't question the fantasy world spun by a dictator. I love who Jesus was as written in the Gospels, but I don't believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant Word of God. I did at one time. I was young and searching, and Hal Lindsay's "The Late, Great Planet Earth" made me view my Catholic upbringing as off-kilter. The Apocalypse was coming, there was a Right and Wrong according to God, and I'd better get on board. Fortunately I matured and now reject that view. The Anti-Christ is particularly attractive to "christians" who feel he (DJT) will bring about the rigid, black-and-white world they have been taught to value. If there is a Satan, he is delirious with joy at his conversion of deluded Christians to worshippers of Evil. Not all of this hatred of "the Other" is religious based, of course, but it is just so much easier to hate and feel part of powerful movement than it is to "love thy neighbor" and work for a better world for ALL. I greatly fear what half of my countrymen will be capable of, whether DJT and DJ win or not. If they win, Project 2025 is a reality. If they lose, they will incite a purge. That's why I don't have a Harris-Walz sign in my yard. I wanted so badly to proudly display it, but the movie "Hotel Rwanda" showed me how easily neighbor can viciously turn on neighbor. I will vote, and continue to be a "social media warrior." Would I be like the people who sheltered the Anne Frank family if it came to that? I'd like to think I would. Would I be one of those who need refuge from the "liberal purge?" I don't know. But I just don't have the courage to be more visible against the evil coming. I'm old, and I'm tired.

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