Uniting America

As mentioned previously, my mom is an arch-conservative, but we try not to let this get in the way of our frequent, quite amiable talks on U.S. politics.  In particular, we try to look for things that might pull the two opposing parties together.

A few months ago, it was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “That ought to bring us closer,” I said, and she immediately agreed.  Of course, that was before Fox News forwarded the message: Why should we care about the Ukrainian people?  To be frank, this caught me off guard, insofar as it seemed to me that an authoritarian regime’s invading a neighboring democracy might have been worth at least a bit of concern for all us freedom-loving Americans.

Now we have the mass slaughter of our little children.  Still, we’re having one hell of a hard time agreeing that we need to do what every other developed country on the planet has done to make this cease.