Fully Present Post 50

I’m an educator by vocation and profession. I love learning and teaching others. When I was a child, I often lined up my dolls to play school and I was their teacher. I began college as an education major but on the advice of my parents, I switched to business because they feared I could never make a decent living as a teacher. They were right. They never wanted me to be dependent on a man for my wellbeing. I confess to being resentful at the time, handing my mother my mock diploma at graduation and declaring that my “debt was now paid”. However, taking my parent’s advice has served me well. After my mother’s death and my subsequent divorce because of his second incident of infidelity, I eventually returned to my first love, education, earning both a master’s degree in counseling and a doctorate in education to support and advance my career. The combination of my business degree and my education degrees helped me negotiate fulfilling and acceptably high paying positions as a counselor, university administrator and part-time professor.

I’m actually grateful to my parents because my finance, accounting, marketing, organizational behavior, and business law classes proved useful to me in my early business career wherein I made good money and it especially helped me in my work in education and enabled me to build a strong financial investment life that has resulted in financial independence and multiple protections against fraud and financial exploitation over the years.

I am well aware that none of the life I have experienced would have been possible without the fight of the feminist who came before me, opening up access to education, personal banking and investment accounts, as well as the ability buy property in my name and to advocate for myself. I recall having to obtain my husband’s signature in order to get my tubes tied after the birth of my third child. In 1985, the doctor advised that it would be dangerous for me to have another child, and yet my husband’s approval was required. I’m glad that is no longer the case for women today, but some are trying to return to those days.

The workplace was no freer than the hospital for women. At one point, I was subjected to sexual harassment prior to laws protecting women. My choices at the time were to stay at that high paying job and endure it or to leave. I chose to leave that very lucrative finance position only to learn a few months later that my first husband (we’re now divorced) was sexually harassing our young live-in nanny at the time. She also quit. The level of anger and betrayal I felt was nearly overwhelming, but my pastor convinced me that it was my Christian duty to forgive my repentant husband and to take some responsibility for the infidelity. I hurt for me, but I hurt even more for young woman whom he violated in our home. When Donald Trump was confronted with the possibility of his daughter being sexually harassed in the workspace, his response was to say that he hoped that she would have the courage to quit that job. Notice he was not at all interested in prosecuting the harasser or changing the conditions in the workplace for women.

Sadly, our nation remains plagued by the dangerous Trumpian attitudes toward the sexual exploitation of girls and women, where sexually assaulted girls and women are either ignored or even blamed for their own exploitation and sexual assaults by clergy, by wealthy Epstein Island offenders, by random men in public spaces, by dates or boyfriends, by coworkers or bosses, and on college campuses. We are watching the “boys will be boys” defense regarding the gang rape of a female college student by seven fraternity men at Cornell College. For years, judges have given young white men a slap on the risk for their sexual assaults, claiming they didn’t want to ruin his life. Notably, black and brown men were never given a pass that way.

What does it say about our country that we knowingly elected a president who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and who was accused of sexual assault by 26 different women and was eventually found liable for sexual assault in court? It turns out that he was besties with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and his name is mentioned as a perpetrator in the files. What does it say about our society when female sexual assault victims are bombarded by questions like: why was she there? why was she dressed like that? why was she drinking so much? why didn’t she run or fight back? why was she there alone?

Our society, including too many women, hold women responsible for the lustful and unhinged behavior of men as though men cannot be expected to exercise decent levels of self-control and women must somehow protect men from their own despicable behaviors. Jesus’ answer to men was to take responsibly. “If your eye offends you, puck it out!” The Taliban’s answer to the problem is to have women cover themselves from head to toe in public and to be escorted by a male at all times. Women in Afghanistan are no longer permitted to even speak in public nor to take public transportation alone. In some countries, the shame of a woman being sexually assaulted by a man leads to her marriage to her perpetrator or worse, her death at the hands of family members. I’m concerned that there are Christian nationalist in our country who want to impose some of these restrictions on women to protect men from their uncontrollable lust. You hear them on social media talking about how some women deserve to be sexually abused for how they present themselves.

It is despicable that child marriage is legal in the U.S. despite the overwhelming evidence that child marriage is emotionally, educationally, physically and financially harmful to young women and yet this Republican Congress has failed to pass the “Child Marriage Prevention Act of 2024” that was introduced by Democrats on August 1, 2024. As of today, only thirteen blue states have raised the minimum age to 18 years old for all parties. Girls as young as 10 years old have been married off to adult men in recent years, although most are 16 and 17 years old. We know that human brains aren’t even fully developed until our mid-twenties, so it makes no sense to allow a girl to marry a grown man.

The saddest part to me is that Republican women, particularly those with religious values and who genuinely care about others are completely blind to the conservative policy agenda that is designed to protect men who sexually assault girls and women, while simultaneously actively working to remove the voting rights of women, to prevent women from accessing bodily autonomy, and placing limitations on their access to healthcare, education, jobs, promotions in their chosen fields, and even their right to leave a bad marriage.

The vice president, JD Vance, and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, are advocating that women remain in abusive marriages by pushing for an end to no-fault divorce. In fact, conservative lawmakers in red states like Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma are actively trying to end no-fault divorce for irreconcilable differences. This means the state will get to decide if conditions in a marriage like infidelity, cruelty, excessive drinking, imprisonment, or physical abuse are bad enough to warrant a divorce. In 1969, California ended what was a nightmare scenario that kept women trapped in unhappy and even dangerous living conditions by passing no-fault divorce. The first result after the passage of no-fault divorce was a decrease in female suicides. Cases of domestic violence and women being killed by their husbands went down. As expected, the divorce rates increased for a time, then steadily declined. Since then, no-fault divorce is legal in all 50 states, but Republicans are trying to reverse that and that is especially scary for the health, welfare, and safety of women. Republican women are told that liberals hate men and marriage and families, opting for debauchery and cat ownership instead, and so they are apt to agree with the “sanity of marriage” without realizing that things can go terribly wrong within it and a safe path out of a nightmare will be blocked, particularly for women.

That conversation I had with my mahjong friend last week briefly continued this week when I was able to assure her that I looked up the facts about post-birth abortion and that harming or even killing a baby after it is born is illegal in all fifty states and that the comments of former Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, who is a practicing pediatric neologist were taken out of context. I assured her that doctors offer parents at the birth of non-viable infants the choice between palliative care or extraordinary measures to save the life of the newborn. No one is actively aborting healthy late term babies. Her response was that she was glad to hear it, but she was concerned that our country was moving away from valuing human life and I agreed with her. I agreed that we need to do everything we can to value and protect all human life. We agreed that we were torn up over the newborn who was recently discovered in a garbage can. I briefly mentioned how tragic the situation was and how desperate that young mother must have been to do such a horrible thing.

What I am discovering is that Republican women genuinely care about people. However, they are under-educated by design. Because of this, they are particularly vulnerable to misinformation and easily manipulated to vote against their own interests and those of their daughters. It is evident that they didn’t realize the harm caused to women when we no longer have access to medically necessary abortions because they have been manipulated to believe that liberals do not value the lives of babies. They do not know that less than 1% of fetuses are aborted after 21 weeks’ gestation and that the vast majority of those aborted that late is because the fetus is not viable or the mother’s life is in grave danger. Forcing continued pregnancies is causing preventable deaths of women in red states and forcing the birth of horribly deformed non-viable infants is leading to another kind of heartache. If they knew the reality about the rise of infant and pregnancy associated deaths (John Hopkins University study) since the abortion bans have taken effect, they would vote differently. Texas women experienced a 50% rise in the sepsis rate of women who miscarried in the second trimester. Physicians in red states report delaying life-saving care for pregnant women until they become critically ill. We must have the difficult conversations with Republican women to expose the truth of these Republican policies.

Since the abortion bans took effect in red states, the birth rate has more than doubled among Hispanic and black women and other racial minorities. Not so for the many more white children Republicans hoped to have. As expected, the infant mortality rates also increased nearly 11% as severely sick babies (non-viable) were forced to be born.

We must also expose the fact that Republicans are actively trying to limit female access to the ballot box by requiring our current sir names to match our birth names. According to the League of Women Voters, since 2004 women have been registered to vote at higher rates than men. And women make up slightly more than 50% of the U.S. population. And black women have proven to be the most motivated voters. This gives Republicans an incentive to influence our voting habits whether by redistricting or making names an issue. Personally, my sir name has changed three time during my lifetime from birth and two separate marriages. Thankfully, I have my actual birth certificate, marriage certificates, a driver’s license, a social security card, and a current U.S. Passport. I’ve kept all these records safe and accessible. But how many women have them and know where they are?

Of course, there are women-hating influencers on social media and in some churches saying that women should not be able to vote at all. They want to repeal the 19th Amendment. These men and some young women, want women to believe that they are intellectually inferior to men. They themselves know that nothing is further from the truth and these men are terrified that they now have to compete with educated, articulate, strongminded women. Their insecurity is leading them to seek ways to dominate and oppress women. Sadly, some young women are willing to allow their husbands to vote on their behalf. We must educate and empower our daughters, nieces, and granddaughters to defend their civil and human rights or they will lose them. Voting affects the policies that affect our actual welfare, freedoms, and future prospects. We must never abandon our right to choose those who represent our best interests.

This post is getting a bit long, so next week I will address the not-so-subtle Republican policy attacks on female access to education, jobs, careers choices, and promotions by the Republicans in charge.

I enjoy playing American Mahjong every week at the local senior center. It is a mentally challenging game that I thoroughly enjoy. I play with wonderful ladies, and we usually have lighthearted conversations during the few hours we are playing. However, the last two weeks have been a bit different.

Two weeks ago, I found myself playing with three Jewish ladies who had varying thoughts about the fact that Ed Sheeran fired Macklemore at the demand of billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft over Macklemore’s “Free Palestine” speech during his opening set. One lady was adamant that a concert or athletic event or restaurant was not the appropriate time and place for expressing political views. Her point was that people paid good money to simply enjoy themselves. So, she was against Macklemore. Others were not as disturbed by public protest but didn’t like Kraft’s strong-armed tactics. I eventually weighed in supporting every person’s right to use their platform to educate or express their opinions with audiences when the stakes are so high. I argued that audiences can decide how to respond to those expressed viewpoints. They could boo, applaud, or even leave. But demanding that artists and athletes (who are also human beings) keep silent in the face of injustice and inhumanity goes against my personal values. We agreed to end the conversation at that point.

Then this past week, I shared that the most outrageous thing I heard recently was the man who said California passed a law that babies could be aborted up to four weeks after they were born. They all agreed that that was in fact outrageous, but then one of the women said that there was a state where they passed a law making it legal to abort babies right after they were born. I said I didn’t believe it because that was clearly murder. I challenged her to produce the details for when and where such a law was passed. She couldn’t, but she was certain it was true. She challenged me to do the research and I did. No such law exists in any of the 50 states. At the time of the conversation, I shared my eyewitness account of an OBGYN of 15 years testifying before Congress that if a woman needs an abortion late in pregnancy, then something terribly wrong has happened that endangers the life of mother carrying a fetus that has either died or is no longer viable. The doctor testified that she has never had a late term pregnant woman demand an abortion. She said they work hard to save the lives of premature babies born under duress. She said that it is always a horrifying and tragic rush to save lives when a pregnancy is in distress. Doctors take an oath to do everything they can to save the lives of both mothers and newborns, not take them. With that, the woman at the table asked to change the subject and we all agreed.

I realized when I returned home and told my husband about the conversation, that most people are kind and genuinely care about others. Thankfully, none of the Jewish women were Zionist who disagreed with Macklemore’s message. The woman against late term (or after-birth) abortion wants to save innocent babies just like I do. The problem is that too many of us are either fooled into believing the worst things about each other or we think silence keeps the peace. In my thinking, silence allows the faulty underlying reasoning and thereby the cruelty, injustice, and terror of the helpless to continue.

I realize there are political operatives who are doing everything they can to fuel misinformation about others for political gain. Evil men like Donald Trump knowing spew lies that scapegoat minorities, disparage the reputations of their opposition, provoke unwarranted fears, and dehumanize whole groups of people. They want to stoke outrage in otherwise decent and caring people with outrageous claims like: the 2020 election was stolen, undocumented immigrants are crazed rapists and murders, Haitians are eating the cats and dogs, schools are performing transgender operations, immigrants are stealing jobs and draining our resources, Muslims are terrorists, Democrats are communists, doctors are aborting babies after they are born, women are demanding abortions at nine months pregnant, transgender women present a bathroom danger, Palestinians are animals, black people are unqualified, people who took the COVID-19 vaccine are no longer human, Sharia law is at our door, and the newest ridiculous claim, many pilots and flight attendants are members of the furry community. That last accusation came from Senator Tommy Tuberville on the Senate floor last week and has no purpose other than to stoke moral outrage.

All it generally takes to dispute these many ridiculous claims is common sense. Sadly, most of the claims are being perpetrated by savvy rich white Republicans against Democrats and minorities. They play into pre-existing prejudices and insecurities and the fact that most white people live sheltered lives and have no firsthand knowledge about how others actually live. This separation only makes the lies they hear from conservative media outlets every day seem reasonable. The Republicans hope to win elections by stoking culture wars based on exaggerations and outright lies (in addition to voter suppression) so that they can put forth an agenda that oppresses women and minorities while further empowering white Christian nationalists and enabling their oppressive anti-science agenda. They continue to rely on the gullibility of the uneducated and the silence of the informed. I told my husband that I wasn’t going to stay silent. Too many of us have been silent too long and therein lies the problem.

Let me be clear here. Silence in the face of such a willful misinformation campaign is effectively consent. And I do not consent. Our only hope for a sanity is if the majority of us won’t be silent either. We owe it to ourselves and our country and even to the ignorant among us to speak the truth with love and actual evidence.

I’m compelled to share my thoughts and opinions with my readers each week, mainly because I value being part of the public discourse and writing helps me clarify (and sometimes solidify) my own thinking on certain topics. However, I also want to influence the course of society in a direction that reflects my respect for nature and humanity. That said, I feel I would be falling short of my mission if I didn’t also write to lawmakers who ultimately create the laws from policy platforms that shape our country. So, I have written a letter to my congressional representative, Julia Brownley, and I share it with you hoping you will be inspired to write to your own representatives.

September 20, 2026

Dear Representative Brownley,

I am one of your constituents.  Although lately, under Republican rule, it has felt that we Americans no longer have people in Congress who actually represent them.  For several years, I feel like your voice has been silenced by the majority leader and his refusal to care about the needs of the people you were all sent there to represent.  Instead, the House of Representatives has become nothing more of an observer and rubber stamp for the destruction and corruption of Donald Trump.  I’m voting and hoping that this November successfully ushers in a true House of Representatives who will work on behalf of

the citizens and in keeping with the Constitution and the rule of law.

There are specific things that I petition you to consider taking up should the Democrats become the majority.  First, is reasonable regulation of AI that protects us from the potentially catastrophic harm it can do.  I’ve heard about the mishaps, and I’ve seen the whistleblower warnings and the uncertainty confirmed by executives at these tech companies and I am worried about the future. Like many Americans, I want the potential upside where AI can help cure diseases, discover vaccines, solve climate change, help farmers and help with many other solutions to lingering human problems.  Please create legislation that stops AI companies from allowing computers to impersonate real people, to act as companions and counselors to our youth, to supplant all but the least dangerous jobs, to invade our privacy through surveillance, to prevent hacking, to prevent models from developing biological weapons, and from choosing military targets. The chaos that is about to be released upon the world is frightening and begs for your immediate intervention. 

The second most pressing thing I want a Democrat House to take up is the restoration of the rule of law through accountability.  The level of lawlessness and corruption and self-dealing coming from Trump, his administration and his family is an affront to our national reputation, a drain on our resources, and a threat to our future faith and security in the rule of law.  Lawlessness at the top leads to lawlessness everywhere. 

The third thing I want a Democrat House to do is ensure our civil rights across the nation.  This includes restoring a woman’s right to reproductive healthcare, voting rights, and ensuring ICE no longer acts with brutality while it denies suspected undocumented immigrants their due process.  These detention centers should not be places of torture where human rights are ignored and women are raped. Stop this madness.  This is not who we are as a nation and Congress must act to stop these actions.

And my final petition is to restore public health by creating access to affordable healthcare for every American, providing paid family leave, restoring medical research funding, providing food security, promoting scientific expertise over conspiracies, regulating guns, and ensuring clean air, water, and food throughout the nation. We also need to ensure that people have access to relief from natural disasters.        

Of course there is much more to be done like immigration reform, campaign finance, and age restrictions on Congress and the Supreme Court, but these are my most pressing priorities, and I wanted to express them to you.

Sincerely, 

Dr. Juanita A. Hall

Voting citizen

Speaker Mike Johnson continually professes his Christianity and yet endorses the cruelest and “anti-Jesus” policies that injure people. So, as a Christian, I wrote him a candidly scathing letter urging him to repent and turn from his wickedness. As citizens, we have a Constitutional right to petition our government, and I take that right seriously. Occasionally, I share some of my letters, hoping others will be inspired to write letters, too.

September 12, 2026

Dear House Speaker Mike Johnson,

As a Christian, I will speak to you in a language you should understand.  I ask you to repent and to turn from your wicked ways and to do right by the American people before it is too late. You cannot get to abundant life by hating, lying, killing, stealing and destroying every person with a nationality, gender, or viewpoint different from your own. Where is the love?  Many people now equate Christianity with hate and cruelty. That is your Party’s doing!

It’s frustrating as an American citizen who values our Constitution and the rule of law as well as common decency to see today’s Republican Party abandon everything that is helpful for the citizens and the world.  We deserve better, not less.  I’m also a Christian but I see nothing of the teachings of Christ in your Party, nor in MAGA, nor in you. Jesus said that we will know a tree by the fruit it bears.  I see your fruit and that says everything about you and your Party.  You stare into cameras and lie on behalf of Trump.  Your Party clearly despises the compassion and empathy and free will Jesus stood for. You care nothing about the Constitution. Instead, you endorse personal greed, hate, abuse, and cruelty towards everyone who is not a white male. You allow the most destructive president in the history of our nation to have free reign to harm people and the environment as he enriches himself and his family and friends at our expense.  He is clearly an unhinged bully who plasters his name and ugly image everywhere with impunity. Your Party has abdicated its duty.  You have broken your oath to uphold the Constitution.  

The Republican Party is not concerned with the welfare of the people, but with satisfying the ego and passions of Donald Trump.  And to what end?  The destruction of the nation and its people?  I’m disgusted by your cowardice and/or complicity.  How dare you! 

I need not spell out the lies coming from your Party that disparage democrats, transgender people, immigrants of color, Muslims, feminists, and people of color while protecting pedophiles and the wealthy. But your accusation that the Democrats are communist is a stupid lie and a blatant fear tactic.  Your Party claims to be pro-life, but you care very little about the lives of the living with your policies that allow women to suffer, families to be separated, people to starve, innocents to be gunned down in public, and others to die without access to medical care. Even clean air and water and reliable public health policies are going down the tube.  We can’t trust the food we eat nor any health-related statements coming from this White House. The misinformation and anti-science stance endanger us all.  And worse, you call yourselves trying to engender patriotism. MAGA look like rabid freaks adoring themselves in red, white, and blue outfits. They feed on lies about America and myths about white superiority. They are clearly delusional and are being cut off from their loved ones because of it.

The more you try to erase history or to rewrite it, the more the actual ugly truth is coming out. Didn’t you learn in Sunday school that Jesus says that it is the truth that sets us free?  Or that all things that are hidden will be brought to light?  Isn’t this what the Bible tells us?  The path for America to heal from its past is not to hide it, but to confess and repent of its past wrongdoings and to do better. Working towards appreciating our diversity, aspiring to equity, and moving towards inclusion was a good thing.  But your Party poisons the good with clever misrepresentations and outright lies. You sell being asleep to society’s injustices as a better alternative to being “woke”.  You lie and say that women are callously aborting babies in the ninth month or even after they are born.  Not true.  But one MAGA actually said on camera that California passed a law that babies could be aborted up to 4 weeks after they were born.  That lie came from your side of the isle, and you do nothing to correct the record.  The devil is the father of lies, and your Party has sided with the devil while wearing the mantel of Christianity.  But you are no different than the Taliban. Many of us see you for the hypocrites you have become.   

It’s no wonder you need to suppress the vote to maintain power.  But it isn’t your power yet; it belongs to Trump and you need to continue to enable his self-serving destruction until you can take over. However, power gained through deception, suppression, and coercion only leads to revolution in a nation of people who value democracy and freedom. You think January 6^th was bad.  Once Americans see that you offer nothing more than the Taliban with continued corruption, cruelty, incompetence, and cowardice, I would hate to be you. 

The time to repent and turn from your wicked ways is now.  Don’t wait until patriotic Americans come to take their country back. And if you’re truly a Christian, you believe God will be your judge in the end.  And His Word has already revealed the destiny of liars and those who purposefully harm others. I urge you to repent and do better while you still can.

Sincerely,

Dr. Juanita Hall   

Voting U.S. citizen

Once again, I exercised my constitutional right to petition our government and wrote to Hakeem Jeffries to express my desires for more fight ahead of the mid-terms and to deliver my wish list for what comes next should the Democrats take control. As always, I share this letter hoping my readers will be inspired to write letters of their own.

September 6, 2026

Dear House Minority Leader Jeffries,

I am in receipt of many requests from the Democrat Party for donations.  I refuse to give a dime to the Party not only because I am still furious over the Party’s refusal to respond (until it was too late) to demands that Joe Biden not run for a second term, but because I am unconvinced that the Party is effectively responding to our current outrages and that it will truly represent the best interest of the people. I hate that my daughter believes that both Parties are utterly corrupt and unworthy of leadership. Given the level of corruption, cruelty, and incompetency under Trump, I argue that this is a false equivalency, but like many Americans she is not paying close attention because she is simply trying to live her life. The Party’s outrage is far too quiet and is NOT meeting the moment.   

It is not that I am sitting on the sidelines with my wallet or my mouth closed.  I talk and write about our situation every day. As a senior citizen with limited funds, I donate to individual Democrat candidates across the country, to multiple activist groups like Indivisible, to several legal organizations that defend our democracy and rights in courts, and to humanitarian organizations.  My total investment in our country is several hundred dollars every month, not millions like the wealthy donors that politicians tend to court for special favors. 

I am an average progressive Democrat.  I listen to a lot of the people around me and I decided to send you a list of post mid-term requests that I feel compelled to share with you. I’m doing what I can to help us win back both the House and the Senate. I’m fearful of all the lies and schemes the Republicans are engaging in to muddy the waters and to prevent people from voting.  It bothers me not to see much push back from the Democrat Party though.  I’m grateful for the court battles but frustrated by your relative silence. Americans like me need to see you fight much harder in the court of public opinion.

My wish list begins with accountability. Should we win, there must be accountability for broken laws and unconstitutional acts perpetrated by this Administration.  We are suffering under the brutality of lawless ICE agents, an unlawful war, unlawful tariffs, an assault on our civil rights, vengeful prosecutions, a rollback in research and education, and a president who is taking bribes, enriching himself through market manipulation, and placing his name and image everywhere. We need to shore up our laws and our justice system to stop the grifting and exploitation of cowards in Congress and to reform this corrupt and activist Supreme Court.

Second, we need to protect abortion rights.  Women are in grave danger because state lawmakers either don’t understand or don’t care that pregnancy is a medical condition that can go very wrong and can endanger the physical and emotional life of a woman. Babies who were deemed unviable are being born simply to die.  The idea of fetal personhood denies women their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We are being reduced to “hosts”, not people. It is a religious belief of some, not a medical reality, that life begins at conception. However, in nature less than half of human fertilized eggs result in a person being born. And frankly, it’s cruel to force the birth of a baby whom doctors knew was not viable outside the womb. The decision to have an abortion must be a legal option for women nationwide.  Stop allowing Republicans to lie about women choosing abortions in the ninth month or after birth!  Some folks believe them and your silence confirms this for them.

Third, we absolutely need a single payer healthcare system, a useful immigration system, and regulations for AI and guns.  We need campaign finance reform that removes private money from politics. We need to restore regulations that protect our environment and the restoration of research, education, and public health. We need a simplified and fair tax code wherein everyone pays their fair share.  And please remove that unfair cap on social security deductions from pay checks.   

Of course, there are many other things that need fixing, but these are my top priorities and the priorities I hear from the people around me. My greatest desire is to hear much more fight from the Democrat Party prior to the mid-terms.  And just maybe then, I will send you folks a check.

Sincerely,

Dr. Juanita Hall

I’m no longer surprised by the great number of openly angry people I encounter every day. Within minutes of a cordial greeting, their anger at Trump’s latest assault on our sanity, our sense of decency, our safety and welfare, our finances, or our nation’s rule of law come pouring out. Most of the people I meet just want the disgusting behaviors and the pain and misery he’s causing to stop. There is a mix of disbelief and frustration that this kind of cruelty and corruption is allowed to continue. They want Trump gone and like me, they wake up every morning hoping he is.

I used to see a lot of red hats and Trump flags when I visited Simi Valley. These days, it’s rare to see one. I think some MAGA folks finally realize they were sold a fantasy of lower food prices, an abundance of energy, no more wars, exposure of the Epstein perpetrators, lower housing prices, more jobs, criminal deportations, and tariff checks. They got none of this. What they did get was a president who spends most of his time enriching himself, redecorating, seeking revenge, and plastering his name and image everywhere while bullying other countries.

Like most people on social media, I’ve seen the delusional diehard Trump supporters who when interviewed can’t name anything specific he has done to make the nation or their lives great. They answer that he’s done a lot. However, when pressed, they fall silent. These folks are so steeped in their irrational hatred of Democrats and feminists and their irrational fear of Muslims, trans people, and people of color, that they rubberstamp everything Trump and his administration do until their lives and livelihoods are directly affected. They claim to be pro-life, yet they know nothing about the biology of conception and ignore the possible life-altering emotional and physical complications that can occur during pregnancy and birth. These are simple-minded uneducated people who are easily manipulated by the lies of Republicans, Fox News, and podcasters eager to exploit their ignorance, fears, frustrations, and prejudices for financial and political gain.

But to what end? We have blatant lawlessness without accountability at the highest levels of government under Republican House and Senate rule. The entire world now hates and distrusts us. Trump started a war with Iran unprovoked. He imposed illegal tariffs on the entire world absent sound economic reasoning. Masked ICE agents are brutally kidnapping and disappearing people off the streets without warrants nor due process. The U.S. is no longer a trusted partner nor a good investment. Rural hospitals are closing. Restaurants are going out of business. Farmers are losing their farms. Food, housing and gas are becoming unaffordable. Our servicemen are being mistreated. Diseases that were once relics of the past are resurfacing amid vaccine skepticism. Data centers are raising the noise levels, electricity bills, and diminishing the available drinking water in neighborhoods. Disaster victims are left to fin for themselves. Books are being banned. Tourism is down and white Americans traveling abroad are no longer welcomed. Expert knowledge and scientific research are leaving the country. Mass shootings have become the norm. Reliable news and information are harder to come by. Our ability to vote is under attack on multiple fronts and the fairness of elections is being questioned. And basic Constitutional freedoms like speech, religion, assembly, and due process are being violated.

No one wants to live this way. And yet, the Republicans claim that the alternative to their failed leadership, oversight, and obvious corruption is socialism followed by communism that they claim the Democrats will bring. Of course, that is a bullshit fear tactic that uneducated easily manipulated MAGA types will believe. They are trying to motivate their racist xenophobic misogynistic base to vote by using this ridiculous fear mongering.

We must be perfectly clear that democrats are not communists. According to Britannica, “communism, political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. Communism is thus a form of socialism—a higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates. Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists’ adherence to the revolutionary socialism of Karl Marx.”

We already live with some elements of socialism such as public education, policing, fire departments, public parks, and public transportation. Democrats would like to add healthcare to that mix because it is essential to the wellbeing of the entire nation. We would like to eliminate for-profit prisons because there should not be a profit motive to keeping people locked up. Democrats are capitalists who believe in free market competition as well as government regulations to prevent tax evasion and business exploitation of people and the environment in favor of profits alone. Republicans don’t like regulations that protect people and the environment. They thrive on the corporate greed of their friends. Republicans want to privatize everything through their system of cronyism and favoritism to keep the money and power flowing into the hands of a few white men. We are seeing this in the Trump administration where he is promoting his unqualified loyalist and handing out government contracts to his family, friends, and anyone willing to bribe him. Trump is destroying the free market by deciding on mergers and selling market-moving presidential announcements before making them public for a fee. His insider trading and money-laundering is corruption on a scale we have never seen.

This election in November is our opportunity to begin taking our country out of the hands of the greedy, the corrupt, the indecent, and the lawless. It’s laughable that the Republicans are openly warning that if they lose the House and Senate, there will be investigations and prosecutions and that some folks will go to prison. No kidding! We absolutely demand accountability and a stronger structure to support the rule of law moving forward. It tells me everything I need to know that they don’t want this too.

So, moving towards November, make sure you are still registered to vote, have proper ID and then vote early in-person or use a drop box if possible because Trump has hijacked the U.S. mail system, making it unreliable. We can win the House and Senate if we channel our justified anger towards electing candidates who will work on behalf of the American people and who will actually uphold the Constitution. We also need policies that will protect and improve our daily lives, not policies that further enrich a few wealthy white men.

From now on, please join me by responding to the angry people we encounter by asking each of them to take their anger to the polls. And let’s move heaven and earth to do the same.

Every now and then I come across one of those frustrating videos where average Americans are interviewed on basic issues. Most people look like they failed to learn anything in school, especially basic biology. When it comes to the issue of abortion, it seems like too many Americans abandon all reasoning and decide the issue based on their emotions or someone’s interpretation of a few Bible verses.

I love babies. I’ve had three of them. I’ve never had an abortion that I’m aware of. And I’ve never counseled nor advised anyone to have one. But I’m not against all abortions, even some by choice. Abortions happen naturally and more frequently than many people realize. And yes, I am a Christian. But I’m also not stupid. My interpretation of the Bible leads me to believe that the human body is knitted together in the womb but that actual life of a living soul begins with breath or perhaps the ability to breathe. Many people are either completely unaware or choose to ignore the biological reality that in nature only 25-30% of fertilized human eggs result in the birth of a baby. Most fertilized eggs are naturally lost before a woman even realizes she is pregnant. Others are loss early in pregnancy for a variety of natural malfunctions within the embryo itself or within the womb. To the purest religious pro-life advocate, I argue that their reasoning makes God the biggest abortionist of all!

I am most annoyed by the people who continue to argue that life begins at conception. Some are even saying that it begins with man’s sperm, calling it “life matter”. I heard a woman on camera claim with confidence that a heartbeat exists at the moment of conception. What we are experiencing is a proliferation of misinformation or willful ignorance and it is infuriating, especially when these people are pushing our government legislators to pass abortion bans nationwide. Presently, 17 states have granted “personhood” to fetuses, giving them the same legal status as born people. Making laws based on erroneous and deeply flawed information that involves the lives of people is dangerous.

Imagine a world where people refuse to believe germs exist because they can’t see them? Or imagine someone still claiming that the world is flat because they have seen a map? That’s how infuriating this whole abortion debate feels to me. People are trying to force their mythology of when life begins onto the entire population as though pregnancy and giving birth are without consequence to the pregnant woman. Sometimes a pregnancy is not viable and if it continues both the fetus and the mother will die. An ectopic pregnancy is just one case in point. It’s when a fertilized eggs implants and grows outside the uterus. Other times, a fetus may not be viable because of an extreme malformation. Furthermore, to pretend that all pregnancies are without complications and risks is naive and dangerous for women.

I have two daughters. One tried to get pregnant for many years and finally gave birth to a beautiful baby boy at the age of 41. She had numerous complications throughout her pregnancy, in delivery, and even postpartum. I was terrified we might lose the baby at some points and lose her at others. My other daughter has suffered through multiple miscarriages (one at 15 weeks) and is now going through the IVF process with donated eggs that were fertilized with her husband’s sperm. She has four remaining frozen embryos since the first embryo failed to implant. We are hoping and praying that this process results in a healthy son or daughter and a healthy mother to nurture him or her.

I know many pro-lifers believe the frozen embryos are already people with rights, but I don’t know any living people who can be frozen for years and then thawed out to continue living. A good friend’s daughter-in-law just gave birth to a daughter who was a donated embryo that had been frozen for six years. Some religious nuts online had the audacity to claim that the child doesn’t have a soul. We are truly living in weird times.

My point is this. I am pro-choice because I don’t believe life begins at conception nor with a heartbeat. I believe it begins with breath or viability. Up to that point, I believe a woman should definitely be able to decide whether or not she wants to endure the health risks or life disruption to bring another person into the world. I know personally that sometimes things go very wrong during the pregnancy. In my case, I had to endure major surgery after the birth of my son. Sometimes it is necessary for a doctor to advise an abortion to save the life of the mother. I think that too, should be a no-brainer in the law. But with fetal personhood, legislators are choosing the fetus over the mother who might have other children at home. Isn’t the mother a person too? Why is the life of a fetus who isn’t viable on its own, more valuable than the woman who is nurturing it? In many cases, both will die as a result of denying a medically necessary abortion.

All of us on the pro-choice side should be crystal clear that no one is advocating for late term abortions nor ridiculous post-birth abortions. I’ve watched OBGYNs testify before Congress that a late term abortion occurs only when something terribly wrong has occurred. Killing a baby after it’s born is called murder and those who do that are already prosecuted for murder. What we do know is happening is that babies who were deemed not viable are being carried to term and dying shortly after birth. And worse, some anti-vaccine mothers are rejecting the vitamin K injections only to watch their otherwise healthy newborns die of a preventable brain-bleed. The anti-science crowd will kill millions if we don’t stop them.

The pro-life side argues based on emotion and ill-fitting Bible verses, not science, not medicine, not biology and certainly not logic. It is up to reasonable people to fight this nonsense before more women are forced to risk their health or future to give birth, while others needlessly die, and still others are wrongly prosecuted for a miscarriage they had no control over. Others have been arrested and charged for still births. Without consent or even patient knowledge, hospitals routinely test pregnant women for illegal drug use and report positive results to child protective services or the police. A handful of women have been wrongly reported because they tested positive after eating an everything bagel (which contain poppy seeds). While we care about the health of the unborn child, are these pregnant women being offered the medical and psychological care they deserve or are they simply being criminalized?

Doctors and biologists and reasonable women must make stronger efforts to educate legislators and the public about pregnancy before more women find themselves in a precarious situation. Already, OBGYNs are refusing to practice in certain states and maternity wards are closing, further endangering the lives of pregnant women. It is up to us to vote for knowledgeable legislators who have the health and welfare of women in mind. If a woman doesn’t believe in abortion, she doesn’t have to have one. But forcing a religious belief on everyone through laws, goes against our basic freedom of religion and our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I’m waiting for the lawsuits that argue that these abortion bans violate our civil rights. I’m waiting for the lawsuits surrounding the wrongful deaths or permanent health damage to pregnant women denied healthcare. I’m waiting for the lawsuits that seek justice for women falsely accused of causing a miscarriage or still birth. We have to fight back in the courts and in the court of public opinion on this issue for anything to change. No one wants to return to the days of back alleys and coat hangers. But that’s where we are headed if we don’t take a stand against the misinformation surrounding abortion.

There is a very nice woman in my crochet and knitting circle who immigrated from the Philippines as a young girl. The other day over lunch at the senior center, she mentioned how she was in favor of the current deportations because people need to come here the “right way” like she and her family did. Anyone who knows me, knows that that kind of comment triggers a not-so-patient response from me. And it did.

Without raising my voice, I responded that the immigration system we have today is broken and that the path to coming here the “right way” is inadequate to meet our economic needs because it is outdated, grossly under-staffed and underfunded and largely inaccessible to many who are eligible to immigrate here. I told her that 90% of the people ICE is detaining by force and without due process have no criminal record but are hard-working people who pay taxes and support local economies. They even pay into the social security system we all rely on. My final words had to do with the fact that there was a time when the U.S. welcomed Europeans to the U.S. simply because they boarded a boat and landed on Ellis Island. With those comments, I left the center because I could feel my ire rising and I didn’t want to burst into flames.

It is no surprise that this Administration is losing in the polls on immigration policy. Every day we see videos of ICE agents targeting brown people on our streets using violence and denying them their due process. These agents ignore the Constitution and are fueled by unbridled power and monetary incentives to go after helpless people. Decent people couple that brutality with the dire conditions we hear about in the for-profit detention camps where girls and women are being raped, food is nearly inedible, detainees are mocked, and sick people can’t access medical care. The fact that ICE is detaining people who are here legally, separating families, and deporting people who had been contributors to our society is abhorrent to anyone with a shred of decency and human empathy.

Those who proclaim to be Christians should know that there are at least 30 Bible verses in both the Old and New Testament that clearly tell us that God expects us to welcome the foreigner or stranger and to treat them well. For example, “You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself.” (Leviticus 19:34). Or how about this one, “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” (Matthew 25:35) There is no room in the Christian values that so many MAGA supporters claim to hold for the way the Trump Administration is treating immigrants.

And it is only getting worse. Stephen Miller announced that he is going after the 24,000 unaccompanied minors still in the country. With the Supreme Court’s approval, Trump has rescinded the Temporary Protected Status of nearly 350,000 Haitians who have been working hard and contributing to the local, state, and federal economy by paying taxes and buying necessities. Losing their protected status means they lose their jobs and their legal immigration status. These are people have established homes, careers, families, and friendships here in the U.S. and that is being ripped away from them simply because they are black. These are the same people he falsely accused of eating the cats and dogs during his presidential debate. I recall when Trump publicly said that he wants white immigrants, not immigrants from “shit hole” countries. However, his racists statements were not enough to convince the Supreme Court that this Haitian removal policy was not based on race as the plaintiffs argued before the Court.

It’s not as though white people from European countries are clamoring to come here. In fact, the opposite is true. Not only do most of them hate Trump, but their standard of living includes healthcare, paid family leave, and basic human freedoms. But people in many other countries have good reason to flee their home countries but can no longer come here. This Administration has set the cap for refugees to only 7500, down from 125,000 the previous year. Is anyone surprised that essentially the only refugees being admitted are white South Africans whom Trump claims are escaping a fabricated and completely unfounded “white genocide” in South Africa. According to Refugee Council USA, all but three of the refugees admitted to the U.S. this year were white South Africans. The other three were from East Asia. I think the Statue of Liberty should be taken down and put into storage until we regain our sanity and humanity as a nation.

What is clear to anyone with economic sense is that this nation has always needed the labor, tax revenues, and the spending of immigrants. Farmers can’t find enough labor with over 1.2 million positions left vacant (Microsoft Co-pilot). As a result, food prices are up because farmers suffer crop losses and are planting less. Healthcare is also experiencing a shortage of labor because of our aging population and immigrants often fill those jobs. Ironically, the largest percentage of Haitian workers are employed in healthcare, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare. Average people, like me, are experiencing long waits to see health professionals these days while the wealthy turn to concierge medicine. It took me three weeks to get my first physical therapy appointment. And the construction industry is also facing a shortfall of about 500,000 workers (Microsoft co-pilot). This creates project delays for basic infrastructure projects and housing. Trump’s immigration policies along with his ill-conceived tariffs and stupid war in Iran are literally destroying our economy. By deporting working immigrants, we have cut the tax base that supports social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It’s no surprise that the deficit is quickly growing despite all the DOGE cuts and historic cuts to food assistance programs.

Like other nations with low birth rates, we rely on immigrants to keep the economy growing, fill essential jobs, and to support our aging population. The few South Africans Trump is bringing in will not make up for the millions of people we are deporting and banning from entry. Additionally, the brain-drain of scientists and aspiring scientists to other countries is real. And the loss of international students who subsidize the cost of educating our domestic students, has dropped dramatically. Many of our professionals across industries began as international students and opted to build a life here in the states. Others arrived through the H1B visa process for professionals. Unfortunately, those doors under Trump are rapidly closing and we will lose both the intellectual and economic advantage they gave us.

Trump’s immigration policies are driven by racism, xenophobia, and the myth of white supremacy. We can clearly see through his Cabinet appointments that whiteness does not equal competence. Our country is suffering from the lack of expertise and experience among government officials along with an anti-intellectualism and corruption mindset being elevated to the highest ranks of government. We can see in real time how Trump’s policies are destroying our economy and hurting actual people.

Our best hope to repair the damage is to elect a new Congress this November and a new president in 2028 who will actually fix our broken immigration system through adequate funding and staffing and updated immigration laws that value hard work, merit, and protection of the displaced persons without regard to their race. Our diversity and welcoming immigration policies have been the special sauce that built this nation. Immigrants bring a wealth of knowledge, innovation, energy, and culture that make this country thrive and it is time to enact reasonable immigration laws that protect our borders while also honoring multicultural values that enrich us all.

I first realized that there were men in this world who genuinely hate women when I heard about the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban use a distorted view of Islam alongside violence to demean and disrespect females as they relegate them to the role of dispensable vessels for reproduction, sex, and housework. They understand that educating females only makes them less manageable. Their thinking is no different than how white American men viewed women and slaves at the founding of this nation. For example, beyond the threats of violence, it was illegal to teach black slaves to read in the United States and women had very little education and few civil rights.

Misogynist men and slave owners are fully aware (despite their claims to the contrary) that women and black people are in fact intelligent and freedom-loving human beings. They know that both can only be controlled through threats of violence, a systemic lack of opportunity, and manipulated emotional dependence. I’m extremely grateful that enough humans had the will, passion and courage to fight the legalized systems of oppression against blacks and women before I became of age. It is because of them that I enjoyed the full extent of civil rights and was able to pursue my education and career choice as well as pursue my financial ambitions. But I fear both racism and misogyny are making a comeback as men (mostly white men) fear losing all control and a hatred of women and black people resurface. I believe their hate is driven by insecurity and envy over the rising success of black people and the independence of women. Some very vocal influencers are going viral with their disdain for women while selling their strategy for returning females to a submissive state.

I raised my son to be a confident man who respects women. I married his father because he honored my intelligence and treated me as an equal. I later learned that his father, although kind and respectful of my ambitions, didn’t believe in monogamy and that truth ultimately ended our marriage. Thankfully, we continued to co-parent without animosity, and I remarried another man who fully shared my feminist values and views on monogamy. Seeing my partnership relationships shaped my son’s views on marriage where both are educated, productive, and ambition. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t have questions.

My son grew up to be an ambitious young man who earned his degree while playing division one college football. While he was in college, he and I debated the merits of Title IX as he watched his school struggle to support female sports at the expense of male sports. That experience deeply affected him, and I was glad to be the female voice defending opportunities for female athletes while supporting his sense of loss and his visceral feeling of unfairness.

Many young men do not have someone to debate with, let alone anyone with whom to express their frustrations. They experienced girls excelling in classrooms and on the job without anyone really addressing their feelings. And then came the “Me Too Movement” where the sexual exploitation of women over many years was finally being prosecuted. Men were viewed as villains who hurt women with impunity and enjoyed years of unearned privilege and promotion at the expense of women. A common meme is to say that a woman would rather encounter a wild bear than a man in the wilderness. No one talks about the emotional effect all of this “male bashing” is having on young men. Many are left confused as to how to approach females without coming off as dangerous or unworthy.

Our society has left them vulnerable to a toxic masculinity backlash emanating from political conservatives, criminals, and church leaders. Their backlash against feminism grabbed scriptures from the Bible and ran with them. They embraced an alpha male (caveman type) persona instead of respect and empathy. Thankfully, my son never fell into the misogyny trap because he was raised by a socially aware mother and two older sisters who were all highly educated and who loved and respected him. He learned early on that women are capable of making their own decisions. And he got to observe his father’s and step-father’s admiration of smart ambitious women.

My son met his wife in the Peace Corps. He financially and emotionally supported her through medical school and residency. They now have three handsome and intelligent sons that they are raising to be respectful and confident men. My son and I still have occasional debates as he finds himself performing what he considers more than his fair share of the cooking and childcare because of his wife’s heavy work demands as a NICU doctor at a prestigious teaching hospital. He sometimes struggles with his wife’s choices, but not with her right to make those choices for herself. While I’m not worried about my own son, I am worried about the society my grandsons are being raised in.

It is true that mature women with civil rights have choices. They no longer have to settle for men who disrespect and demean them. Educated women do not need to be taken care of. They want partners, not overlords. It is also true that both men and women are sexual beings ruled by hormones beginning in the teen years before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed and decisions are made based on impulse without full regard for consequences. This is why teen pregnancy was such a huge problem before contraception and Roe v Wade and girls ended up as child brides, unwed mothers on welfare, or risked their lives not to be.

Feminists (both male and female) are thankful that birth control and access to abortion have made it possible for young women to escape the trap of having to marry young or depend on the state or risk their lives because or of an unplanned pregnancy. On the other hand, conservatives point at the reduced birth rates and think a greater level of misogyny and limiting female opportunities is the answer. Who would have imaged conservatives lamenting the drop in teen pregnancies?

To my chagrin, we are watching the rollback of female rights in real time. Conservatives successfully ended Roe v. Wade and Attorney General Todd Blanche admitted that he is working to make the abortion ban national. As I’ve stated many times, I do not believe the Bible supports the idea that human life begins at conception. If it did, then God is the biggest “abortionist” there is. The Bible does support breath or capable of breath as the beginning of human life. Beyond limiting reproductive rights, this Congress is actively trying to limit women’s access to the ballot box. Some white “Christian” men in prominent positions are calling to repeal a women’s right to vote altogether. And that whole reclassification of professions and limiting access to student loans is a direct attack on women who are pursuing degrees at greater rates than their male peers. And let’s not forget the attack on DEI and the firing of women or withholding their promotions in the military.

It’s no wonder that many women are finding it increasingly difficult to find men they want to marry and have children with. The level of toxic masculinity or open misogyny found on in the Trump administration, in Congress, in churches, and on social media is disturbing. Outspoken misogynists, like the Tate brothers, garnered favor among conservatives, including the Trump administration, as they promoted masculinity and male domination while demeaning and disrespecting women as unintelligent tools who only exist to serve men. It is not surprising that in the wake of the Epstein files that the Trump administration is now allowing them to be extradited to the United Kingdom to face charges of rape and human trafficking. Trump saved them from Romanian justice for their crimes against women and teenagers, but the blatant similarities to Epstein prevent him from doing it again.

We are living in a time where young men are increasingly groomed to hate women. Some of them are no different from the Taliban in their thinking and their plans for women in this country. It is time for passionate and courageous people to once again stand up for the full humanity and autonomy of women. We have the chance at the ballot box this November to be clear about this.

My advice to parents is this: Don’t ignore what is happening in society. Talk to your sons about what they are experiencing as young men today and help them navigate any negative feelings about females. Help shape their perception of what it is to be a real man.

My advice to young men is this: Remember that no human being wants to be a doormat. Women are not mindless vessels or sexual toys to be used and exploited. If you want a meaningful and lasting relationship with a living woman (not an AI generated woman), then be a confident, decent, hardworking, and respectful human being. If you are these things, you won’t have any trouble attracting a female partner to share your life with and with whom to raise children.

Every now and then I like to share a letter I’ve sent to an elected official. It is my hope that every reader will be inspired to write letters too. A policial aide once told me that written letters carry the most weight because politicians not only recognize the effort, but believe many others share the sentiment of the writer but neglected to write themselves. Writing letters to political leaders an effective way to expand your influence.

July 26, 2026

Dear Representative Jeffreys,

I am a voting democrat who cares deeply about the direction our country is moving. I donate to individual democratic candidates because I no longer have faith in the Party after that Biden debacle. I’m hopeful that we can win both the House and the Senate this November, but I am deeply concerned about what the democrats will do with this power.  We need big changes!

I agree that affordability is important.  But it is not everything as it seems your talking points indicate. Americans like me also need to hear you talk about what you will do should you gain power.  I want to hear that you will restore the rule of law and adherence to the Constitution by holding this administration fully accountable.  I want to hear that you will restore our democracy and enshrine our basic freedoms and the rule of law by passing necessary laws. Please confirm that you will ensure voting rights for all citizens and that getting rid of dark money in our politics is a priority. We want you to stop ICE agents from racial profiling and hold them accountable by law for violating our Constitutional rights. It should be illegal to allow a woman to be injured or to die because she can’t obtain a medically necessary abortion in any state and certainly no woman should be criminally prosecuted because of a miscarriage. Pass the necessary laws to protect women. People should have access to affordable healthcare, food stamps, and disaster relief no matter which state they reside in. Funding for medical and scientific research must be restored to our universities before the brain drain gets any worse. Our history must be preserved.  Businesses and guns require smart regulations that protect the public. And you need to make sure that moving forward no president is allowed to take bribes, extort, withhold funds or otherwise bully states, businesses, and lawmakers into doing his bidding.

There is much to do.  Call the culture wars what it is: a manufactured problem by the Republicans as a distraction from our real problems. Use the words of Jesus to combat the hijacking of true Christianity by those who hate instead of love but call themselves “Christians”.  My point is that democrats have been too nice and have been out maneuvered by cunning wolves in sheep’s clothing.  Be louder, be bolder, be smarter.  And save our nation. 

Sincerely,

Dr. Juanita Hall

Voting citizen