I am utterly disgusted by our politics.

Yes, if you are reading this I am an American woman. I'm sure many of you who frequent this sub are all too familiar with our politics and what is happening here. I'm writing this in wake of the recent controversy (if you could call it that) over our president listening to a sermon by a woman bishop at Washington national catherdral. The bishop asked him politely to consider the lives of the less fortunate and the downtrodden, the destitute and the poor and to give them mercy. But instead he decided to double down on his racist/xenophobic rhetoric and blatantly attack her on social media. My heart aches for her and the potential for fire and fury that he has unleashed as he has with so many others that have "crossed" him.

Every day that I wake up it feels like trying to find my bearings in what feels like a South Park episode. So many other Americans have enmeshed themselves in lies that they can no longer dinstinguish fact from fiction. These past two months alone I have seen an uptick in the worst. The intolerance, the racism, the xenophobia, the ignorance, anti-intellectualism, sexism etc. is so much to take right now.