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Cheryl Jones-Head's avatar

OMG, John… I was just saying this… I have discovered how little some family members, a few long-time friends, and people I have known through work or other associations…just don’t give a flying fk about immigrants, trans, gays, African Americans… I don’t get it. It has me questioning nearly ALL of the relationships in my life.

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I've noticed the change over many years now. There used to be a time when there was kindness. You would say hello to someone and they would answer back. You would talk to someone on the bus or at the checkout calendar at the grocery store. Normal conversation nothing out of the ordinary. We would take the time to put the grocery carts back into the carrels someone else has decided it wasn't necessary for them to do it, so I did it. Small kindnesses. Helping someone with their groceries to their car or to their house. I don't know when this is stopped but it has. Kindness and empathy go hand in hand. I still take the time to greet everyone I see hello how are you doing? But most people don't answer or even acknowledge that they see me. Just to clarify I'm nothing really to look at I'm 73 years old and I'm disabled and I'm on oxygen so why would they care to see me? I keep telling myself that but we're losing touch with so much under Trump. He is cruel. He is unthinking. He is definitely unkind, and his regime are exactly the same. I'm surrounded by MAGAs where I live. I would love to move but I don't have any my money. I am actually surprised when someone will open a door for me because I am unable to get through a door without one of those handicap buttons. I almost break down in tears when someone says hello and opens the door for me. I don't know who we've become but we are no longer kind and empathetic and I know we were under President Obama and President Biden. We are extremely cruel to people under Trump and his regime. He makes it worse every day. We have to fight to to maintain our humanity until we can get rid of Trump and his regime!

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