America died on November 5, 2024. The undercurrent of hate and vitriol that was exposed in 2016, has grown into a malignancy that has metastasized throughout this country.
The ideas of equality, and fairness, and democracy are gone. They’ve been replaced by fascism, misogyny, xenophobia, and hatred. That there are so many people in America who want this, is truly disheartening.
In the 1930s the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy resulted in people immigrating to the United States. In the 1940s, America, along with rest of the allied countries, defeated fascism. Now, less than 100 years later, America is the epicenter of a new fascist power.
This is not the dawning of a new day, this is the sun setting on 248 years of a democratic republic, and the beginning of a night of terror.
I am grieving for my country, for the place where I grew up, and the place I was proud to call home. I am grieving for the millions and millions of people whose lives will be damaged or destroyed by this new regime. I am heartbroken.