And it IS.

Please. If you value your freedom, the freedom of your neighbours and everyone else around you- get informed so you can fight back. Listen to the voices of those who have escaped and survived to tell their stories. Their wisdom is infallible.

Thank you for coming to long ass Ted Talk

Regardless. We wound up with a Constitution that saw through the error of those ways and put safeguards in place for separation of church and state, and we are seeing those rapidly eroding in front of our eyes. And we need to collectively wake up. You think it won’t happen here? It can, it will (9/?

Positively painted bloody with examples, up down left and right.

This country wasn’t founded on “freedom from religious persecution”. It was founded by the people who were angry they were being tempered for being extremists. But they don’t often teach us that history on this side of the pond. (8/?

Ones.

We’ve seen oligarchs rise and fall before. Just look deep into the history of the Industrial Revolution, and, later, how well the stock market crash ended for most of them. (And everything in between. The early 20th century was wild)

But religious nationalism is horrifying. History is (7/?)

We will see them as our collective saviour. There are so many ex-vangelical voices out there who grew up in it who can help you understand better than I will EVER be able to.
But mark my words, when I say to keep eyes on Vance. The Heritage Foundation. Vought. Do it. They’re the dangerous (6/?

With it was a microdose, but it was enough that it impacted me in a way that shaped the rest of my life, how I see the world, how I view this administration and the Christian Nationalism they’re trying to find the cracks to deep throat us with. They want us tired, divided and exhausted so that (5/?)

And that takes me to the next critical point in why I’m paying real close attention to what’s happening in my country right now.

I, a naïve, abused, gullible, people pleasing, damaged and bruised 18 year old married into a family of Fundiegelicals. In the grand scheme of things, my experience (4/?

Happened, to preserve our family image. She even waited to tell my joint custodial father about it, since he was on his honeymoon with my stepmom and “she didn’t want to worry him”.

Fast forward many years, and many gaps I can fill in as time goes on, I moved far away and met my first husband (3/?

Of the 90’s. It fit neatly into her bootlicking and water carrying of the patriarchy. When my very catholic snd abusive (ex) step father beat the shit out of little 7 year old me, she not only sat by and let it happen, she justified it. And then coached me to lie to the school about what had (2/?)

I work registration for a hospital emergency department. We had a pretty stressful (and uncommon for us) event one night, and once it all settled down, the doc on shift brought in his therapy trained Golden that had been out in his van. That puppers made rounds to ALL of us 🥰

I’m concerned about him. But if I’m being perfectly honest I’m REALLY concerned about wtf Vance is currently doing. That man is dangerous.

Didn’t him and First Lady Elon literally say that’s what they were going to do before the election? Like. I seem to remember that loud and clear.

That’s giving the same energy as all the people pissed off the Blackfeet shut down their side of GNP during the pandemic. Entitled white people are a plague.

Of medical care, and I can go more into that later if anyone’s interested, but we need to save the faith based care for the faith based people who require it. And faith based providers who treat non faith based people need to keep their religion outside the door and out of the exam room. Period.

Annnnnd there it is.