What will it take?
I am sickened to the core.
I can’t help but wonder what my brother-in-law who voted for Trump, a man whose parents and brother were Holocaust survivors, whose grandparents, aunts, and uncles were viciously slaughtered by the Nazis, thinks of this image.
Thinks of what their vote brought us to.
Seig Heil
Between the barbaric, unspeakable horrors of Hamas and the Nazi glorification by the MAGAs, as a Jew, I am completely shattered.
And completely terrified.
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If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. By wars end
If the seed of the American Dream was planted during the dark days of the Depression, germinated at the New York Worlds Fair of 1939, it was nurtured and cultivated during the sacrifices and deprivations of WWII. By wars end
Though it would be my parents generation, those who lived through the Great Depression and later rolled up their collective sleeves, pitched in and sacrificed for the greater good in their fight against tyranny-who would be knighted by Tom Brokaw
Though it would be my parents generation, those who lived through the Great Depression and later rolled up their collective sleeves, pitched in and sacrificed for the greater good in their fight against tyranny-who would be knighted by Tom Brokaw
For over half a century, Americans soaring confidence had always promised a sugar-frosted future filled with frost free fun and abundance and economic prosperity. But that Buoyant bubble of optimism has since gone bust. Along with our jobs, retirement funds
For over half a century, Americans soaring confidence had always promised a sugar-frosted future filled with frost free fun and abundance and economic prosperity. But that Buoyant bubble of optimism has since gone bust. Along with our jobs, retirement funds
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Envisioning The American Dream 
They’re not even trying to hide who they are.
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There is no shame nor apology. Especially when Bannon made his salute there was no back tracking which they tried unsuccessfully to do with Musk..
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Sally –
In a world where the leader of Israel reveres and literally kisses the derrière of the current president of the United States, a man who openly sat down to dinner with an avowed anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier, what level of importance does a few Fascist salutes occupy? As a fellow Jew, I can not understand how some of my religious bretheren rush to excuse any Nazi or Fascist behavior on the part of these so called patriots. “He was just kidding,” or “he was just lost in an exuberant moment.” I’ve been excited in the past. I don’t remember ever throwing up a Sieg Heil, not once, but twice! Remember the story of the frog being slow cooked to death in a pot of boiling water? Well, we’re in the pot now and the temperature is being turned up. Will we as a nation wake up and fight back before we’re all par boiled? That’s the question.
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I think we are par boiled. Who is coming to get us out of the pot? Or at least turn it down to a simmer. We were brought up in a world of”never again” and this never again is nipping at our heels.
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I hate what I have become. I am so frightened for all of us. I too am a Jew and scared. I can remember my parents bringing over the relatives from Poland after the war, hearing the stories of what they went thru. Those stories have stuck with me through my adult years. Those stories also made me a kinder gentler human being who could not imagine the horrors our relatives went through and to think that we are so close to reliving those atrocities. There was a column I read the other day that made me cry. It spoke about the authors friends and relatives to whom he could no longer speak to due to their voting for this monster. I am in the same situation. We just moved back to Illinois after living in Southern Nevada for 50 years. I wanted to come back to my husbands relatives for our last years and I can’t even speak to them now. I feel so alone and terrified of what is to come. I’m scared.
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I feel for you and feel similarly. Share your voice and your feelings here or places that you feel safe. We have so far removed ourselves from just voting Republican or Democrat.That notion seems quaint, now. This is a deeper moral divide and the dismantling of all we have know. I always felt grateful to have been born when I was just a decade after the horrors of the Holocaust and assured we had left that in history. Certainly nothing like Germany could ever happen here. We were America.
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My Jewish daughter works in public health; my gay Jewish son is a journalist and filmmaker. As Edward R. Murrow reportedly said to his producer upon taking on McCarthy, “the fear is in this room.”
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And how do your 2 Jewish children respond to all that is going on?
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My daughter is outraged by the cuts to human services. My son is upset by assaults on the trans community. Deep Blue Staters, I suspect they feel isolated, if not protected from the antisemitism.
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I am always curious how Gen Z is responding to this.
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