The "evil" has become almost palpable

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11. Oh, how I agree with you that it's unbearable at times...

I have no idea how many times I've bit my lip to keep from crying at the evil and injustice being done in our names. He has desecrated so much of what this country has stood for... for what people through the few centuries of our country have worked towards... after the awful way our country was founded. Trying to make reparations of some kind (and I'm not just talking about monetary reparations). We've enacted civil rights laws; recognized marginalized people; tried to level the field of opportunity for all people. Were we successful? No... but we were trying. I will never forget being with my Mom when Obama was sworn in... and both of us crying for what we THOUGHT this represented for our country. Gods, how wrong we were. It only drove the racists actually insane. And even today, we don't dare even *think* of running a female for president. We've seen twice how that's gone. I used to think by the time I was dead, we'd have a female president. I don't think that way anymore.

The evil is palpable to the point of feeling like you could cut it with a knife... but it manifests in many of us as overactive nervous systems... feeling antsy to the point of looking over your shoulder constantly to see what's coming after you, even if you have nothing to hide.

But many of us are also feeling something different. On top of the evil, we're feeling like something is breaking. Is it to our good, or not? Most of us are not sure... we only know we feel something is coming. Like we're at a crossroads and one road or the other is about to be chosen. My hope is it's the path that leads us out of this morass.