The news-- redux to the redux

There is such a disconnect between the beautiful spring weather and the dire and prurient swamp-clots that comprise the news cycle. It's very difficult to navigate this dichotomy, both emotionally and intellectually. To read about people laughing and cheering at the Trump-fest that occurred (I feel like St. Anselm's needs to do penance for hosting that moldy tripe) makes me sick. They were laughing and cheering at the sexual assault of a woman. At lies. At insurrection. And frothing at their collective mouths for authoritarianism.

It's like Hitler never happened. Or any other "strong-man" in history. CPAC meeting in Hungary to take notes on how to subjugate a people from Orban should be enough. But it's not, apparently.

Then I read today about the growing list of textbooks removed in Florida: history, psychology, etc. It's frightening.

What are we doing? Why? 

I don't want to be alarmist-- actually, it's too late for that. Our country has snoozed the alarm, and we are soon going to wake up and wonder where our freedoms have gone, where civility, rational thought, intelligent and compassionate behavior have all gone. 

I want to cry. Shout. Rage. 

Join me?

C