(Thread) I may not be all that old, but I’m old enough to r…

In the days after 9/11 I was 16 years old in the NY Metro area. We watched our communities come together to lift up America.
We were proud to be American.
We were survivors in the face of terrorism. We buried loved ones and attended memorial after memorial for the 2,977 souls.

Nobody discounted any loss. Each was just as tragic as the next. From the people on the planes to those who gave their lives trying to rescue people from those buildings.
We were one people. We were American people.
We weren’t Republicans or Democrats we were AMERICANS.

In the years that followed, peoples dedication faded and life went back to a place of being semi-normal. But I never lost that pride of being an American.
My grandmother immigrated to America during WWII as a refugee from Poland.
She fled for the American dream.

When Barack Obama ran, I not only campaigned for him, but I voted for him. Twice, once in 2008 and again in 2012. I felt proud to have a successful black man breaking history for all of the little boys and girls that would look up to him.
But this is where it started.

What started you ask? The shame.
The partisan politics that I had never lived through. The nasty attacks, the school yard nonsense that grown adults running our country shouldn’t be participating in.
The games and the blatant racism that came back to the surface.

Slowly my pride for America became just something that didn’t exist anymore. And then I watched a new era be ushered in. An era of racism and divide. An era of disinformation and extremism. An era of failure and contempt. All lead by a man who we knew well in the NYC area.

A man that had been a racist con for most of his life. A man that came in with no respect for the office, the country, or the people he wanted to rule.
His supporters have brought out the absolute worst in our country with their conspiracy theories and blatant lies.

And all along, we have a select bunch of ignorant grifters taking advantage of the situation.
There is no more pride for this nation as he’s morphed us into a shithole country. One where the POTUS no longer cares about the American people. He had one job, and he has failed.

It’s time we bring back the country we loved. The country that deserved leaders who care about their safety and don’t purposely give out information that kills 77x the number of people killed on 9/11.
Someone with empathy and compassion. Not a career grifter and asshole.

America will never gain the respect we once had on the World’s stage until this era is behind us for good.
We need healing.
We need real American values back.
We need a government that works for us and not their own interests or lobbyists.

And the only way we can do this is to vote. Get out and vote like the soul of America depends on it. Because it does and this is our last opportunity to save America from the disease this administration has spread. The misinformation and the lies. The blatant disregard for the

Rule of law. The criminal activity out in the open for us all to watch with outrage and nothing we can do about it.
#Vote like our lives depend on it.
Because they do.

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