Something good happened to me today. My anxiety and PTSD transformed itself into anger and fury. I am done pretending that there can be any further engagement with people who directly or tacitly accepted the behavior of a president who all but ordered an assault on our Capitol today.
There will be no further engagement or acceptance of traitorous associations.
For most of my life I’ve tolerated and accepted those I know who were republicans, even when their ideological beliefs ignored my needs, and the needs of many others like me.
That tolerance quickly started to erode when President Obama was bitterly attacked and stymied by republicans in Congress, both in terms of sustained racial attacks and political obstructionism. It eroded further in the lead-up to the 2016 election with their support for a man whose campaign was based on actively hurting fellow Americans.
It completely vanished as many of you promptly embraced every despicable action he took OR made every effort to minimize or excuse those actions.
With today’s actions, I am done.
This is not a threat, because the withholding of my friendship is by no means a threat. It’s just a reality for how I want to expend my friendship energy moving forward.
We all make choices in my life, and I am happy with this choice. I wish you the same for yours.