Let's see, can I say what I think needs to be said in a few short lines?
Presidential wannabes are on the stump selling their vision of an America that once existed:
Women were wives or worked toward being wives and let their husbands and fathers make most decisions.
Racial and ethnic minorities knew "their place" and understood that if they stepped beyond it, no one would be there to keep the punishing rabble away.
The handicapped and disabled sold pencils, made mops, and accepted that because they were different, their needs could not be accommodated.
Those "other religions" were just not something we had to deal with in this country, because we weren't like that.
And people who lived "like that" just kept it quiet and acted like the rest of us when they came around decent people.
The candidates may promise to put "America back the way it was," but the genie is out of the bottle.
Making America better is not stepping back to any of the above.
There, less than 200 words.
Presidential wannabes are on the stump selling their vision of an America that once existed:Women were wives or worked toward being wives and let their husbands and fathers make most decisions.
Racial and ethnic minorities knew "their place" and understood that if they stepped beyond it, no one would be there to keep the punishing rabble away.
The handicapped and disabled sold pencils, made mops, and accepted that because they were different, their needs could not be accommodated.
Those "other religions" were just not something we had to deal with in this country, because we weren't like that.
And people who lived "like that" just kept it quiet and acted like the rest of us when they came around decent people.
The candidates may promise to put "America back the way it was," but the genie is out of the bottle.
Making America better is not stepping back to any of the above.
There, less than 200 words.
1 comment:
Wise words. I find it horrific how the idea of progress involves people losing rights. Disheartening. None of the Republicans are getting my vote, that's for sure.
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