How Far We’ve Fallen
As I told my mom on the phone last night:
I’m ashamed and embarrassed to call myself an American.
This didn’t need to happen.
When I was a small boy, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. He was a principled and honorable human being, who acted on behalf of all the people, and made us proud to be U.S. citizens.
Unfortunately – you have a guilt complex from somewhere.
You can feel ashamed of yourself all you want to – and calling Mommy is only going to rectify it.
You obviously don’t have the backbone to stop rationalizing about your mother’s political position – because you keep making excuses for it – like here.
You can, at any time: stop it with the “Orange Jesus” / guilt complex thing; admit to yourself that your mother, politically speaking – has drunk the Trump / MAGA cool-aid, and thus has gone off the deep end – “and get on with life”.
You want to feel ashamed.
Nobody will stop you — just don’t include the rest of us that see through your inability to deal with reality — just like the Trump MAGA people.