Nailed it

Mike Rilstone
I am sharing the following rant by Kent Garry because I believe it was meant to be shared as it showed up on my page.
I have just sent him a friendship request:
He nailed it.

Please excuse my rant, but I just can’t hold it all in this morning.

Concurrent with the election of this man to the presidency of the United States, we have been downgraded from a full democracy to a flawed democracy by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Now, thanks to this man’s policy of separating children from undocumented immigrant and refugee mothers, warehousing them, farming them out through adoption agencies and loosing track of them, we have been condemned by the UN for human rights abuses. God help us!

We have the largest economy in the world and spend more on war making capacity than the next ten countries with the largest militaries combined. Yet we are the only modern nation on earth that does not provide its citizens with free, quality health care.

We live in the country, with our 326 million people, that produces, the most greenhouse gases. Yet we are not living up to our agreement to combat climate change according to the Paris agreement. Our president has even announced his intention to formally withdraw from the agreement. In the meantime, his appointed head of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), Scott Pruitt, is rapidly reversing every protection he can, including provision of the 1948 Clean Air and Water Act. There is even a bill in Congress, introduced by Republicans, to eliminate the EPA.

We live in a country that loves the Bible and our guns more than we care about other human beings. We watch the news, shielding ourselves emotionally from the absolute horror of seeing people, children even, in schools, churches and other public places mowed down by legally-owned weapons of war. We shrug it off time after time and say, “Well, nothing can be done because owning guns is a basic right in this country.”

We don’t see ourselves as our brothers’ keepers. Neither do we treat others as we would wanted to be treated, especially not blacks, gays and undocumented immigrants like the Dreamers. Yet we call ourselves a “Christian” nation. And now our president is insulting the leaders of “former” allied countries and some are cheering him on while he warms up to some of the world’s most nefarious dictators. Well, I’m not!

If none of this bothers you, what the hell is wrong with you?!?!