Strange days indeed

So, it's early September and everything is in flux. This years Presidential election process has become so bizarre. At about sixty days out, it has become clear that the media has been and continues to be a major force to be reckoned with.  It is unbelievable that the media creates the false equivalencies that people actually focus on. It's all smoke and mirrors with the real issues being glossed over. The truth of the matter is, we have a highly volatile situation where a candidate who can bring our country to ruin. He invokes racism, bigotry and xenophobia as well as a contemptuous attitude toward women. I've never been so afraid for the futures of my kids and grandkids. 

I was a child of the sixties. I thought our generation would be more progressive and inclusive of others. After the turmoil of the Vietnam war and the search for who we were, I thought our generation would see things differently.  The hate and divisive rhetoric reminds me of my youth in Birmingham, Alabama in 1971. The pot of desegregation simmered on low boil after the turbulence of the race riots. I feel that tension stirring again.  How can hate and bigotry find a foothold after all we have seen in the world since 1969?  All I can do is reject hate, stand against bigotry, and promote progress toward accepting people of all races, creeds, and sexual orientation.  Freedom is all of those and more. Abilities. Gifts.

If we stop trying to reject people who are not like us and embrace differences, we will learn to embrace ourselves. That's the country I want my grandchildren to inherit. I will not vote for hate and division. I will vote for progress and acceptance. That is why we need to vote for Hillary Clinton.  Vote down hate.

Get congress working for the people again. It requires us all to pull it off.