Core - Still Alive #7?

[DonH]

I hope to find peace too, but I don't see it coming while living in a state thats feels extreme against my beliefs and despite saying to respect all cultures, largely demonizes or ignore the ethnicities and cultures of my kids.

Wow, where do I even start? I could have pulled a dozen quotes from 4 or 5 different posters. Let me start here, I don't know much about you Core. Are you depressed? Perhaps, I have no way of knowing. However, I can tell you this, it appears you and I share a great number of beliefs in common and I can assure you I AM NOT DEPRESSED. What I am is pssd! Very pssd that my country is being hijacked by a crazy minority that wants to take us back to the very things we fought to leave from. Schools? OMG again where do I start? The best thing you can do is get your children out of the total failure that is public education these days - it's become public indoctrination in too many schools. Far too many kids cannot spell, cannot add or subtract, cannot even make change when running the check-out counter. But they can tell you about non-binary or having their penis removed if that's what they feel needs to occur and on and on. Home school if you can. Pool together with neighbors to make it happen. Move them to private school if you can afford it. Or find the best school choice school available - if that is even an option in your area.

I'm not going to argue each and every point. I just want to support and reinforce to you that having the beliefs you have does not make you depressed in and of itself. What else can you do? Well many, many others have moved away. I can't tell you how many of my friends have left their crazy state or disintegrating city to move to a place with more like people. New York, California, Illinois and other states are seeing record numbers of people flee. It's happening all over the place and is saving the sanity of some of these people. Because as you state, you can't easily fight the corruption and craziness that has taken hold. And when you do, they try to convince you that YOU are the problem, it's you, it's depression, you're raciest, you're not woke, you're just not smart enough to understand.

Just please do not think it's you and you're thinking is wrong. It is not. You are not alone. You and I may be a minority on a long since past it's prime discussion board with a dozen people left but widen the sample size and you'll see you are in the majority or close. I guess we'll find out this November. I'm betting you and I will be again shown to be in the majority. People are waking up and they've had enough.

Way too much else to comment on but well stated, actually very well stated core.