Politics, Motherhood, and Politics

Trying to write in this political environment is such a difficult task. The current Administration is good at pointing at one thing while doing something else behind our backs. Even I have a problem with staying on one political topic.  Maybe that is the "stable genius" of Trump, saying and tweeting the dumbest shit to throw us all off.  However, my attention stays focused on unmarked Federal Agents/Soldiers/Officers being ordered to strike against their own. I know you all can’t believe it...But it's happening. We first saw this on June 1, 2020, when Trump (and Barr) had U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops tear-gas protesters in front of the White House to clear this buffoon's way for a photo-op in front of a church. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials Why?  If you are a supporter of this President, how do you explain this authoritarian show of force?  Did you cheer for it?  But it hasn’t ended...

Ok, people, for the life of me, I am not sure how the hell this became a partisan issue.  I do know that we seem to be the only country to have debated, and some people are just irate about this issue. What is this divisive issue? Well, it's wearing a mask.  How? Why are we idiots? Well, the how it became a partisan issue is self-evident.  We have become so divided that we separated a global pandemic into "red and blue".  What didn't help is the Trump administration's lack of a comprehensive national response to the pandemic.  It shouldn't have been that difficult to get us all on the same page.  In the beginning, even Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) were and still are on the same page with similar emergency orders. They both were alarmed on how quickly the virus spread through their states. Both showed the same compassion and concern for their citizens. Gov. DeWine signed similar emergency orders, etc as his Midwestern D...