I woke up this morning as I do most mornings feeling tired and angry. I have two bills and rent due, and am unemployed again after getting a job and them firing me. FBI director Cash Petal went to the Olympics on a private jet to demean women in a horrifying display of “boys will be boys” with Donald Trump on the phone. The trip cost around $75,000.
The State of the Union was held last night by an administration that continues to show zero empathy or dignity for human life that isn’t anyone in the 1%.
There has been approximately $29.9 billion dollars spent on rounding up people seeking asylum in our country or immigrants. Anyone who is not like them.
I’m thirty-five, but I have a learning disability, so my mother does my taxes. Somehow, I am not getting a refund. Somehow, I owe money again. Yet the pedophile class of people that systemically create ways to horrify, humiliate, and hurt marginalized groups will not pay taxes this year.
Worse, those that have been named in the Epstein files, the world’s first evidence of systemic war crimes against women and children, has been largely ignored by our country. Our country has a sickness, and it is the continued abuse of women and children and systems that continually protect it under patriarchy.
We need to get rid of people that refuse to uphold the law for people who are hurt by others. If an administrator tells someone that they will not do something if charges have been brought, that person needs to be removed from their position. They are not someone that is safe to have at your institution. We need to quite punishing survivors that step forward and tell their truth and instead take action against those that are being accused.
Women and survivors of abuse have been demonized for far too long. The questions should no longer be, “Well, what were you wearing?” or “Were you drinking that night?” The questions should be, “Why did you attack them?” “What gave you the right to hurt someone?”
However, in order for this to happen, a complete, systemic change must occur. The abuses start with those in power. Those that create wars in order to keep people tired, hungry, and unable to fight back. Those that create laws which make it impossible for people to have affordable health care or a place to live. Or a better education. All of it is linked.
Until our lawmakers realize that the only way to make things better for us is to stop the systemic abuse that comes from the top, by treating and advocating for the dignity and respect of their constitutes, then this cycle of abuse will continue at all levels. If you want to keep your positions of power, treat your people with dignity first.
Otherwise, changes will come. One way or another.
With love,
Diana
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