Something new. Bluesky is my goto social media site and I just now discovered I can paste in posts and, in this case, my response to this particular post by Robert Reich. Thought I would give it a test spin. This may become a staple of my blog moving forward. I tend to do a lot more writing there than I’ve been doing here. This way I can blend in the two.
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.Do not.
I'm a descendant of Ukrainian Jews who fled the pogroms of the late 19th and earlier 20th century. I'm appalled at the country I once thought of as the benevolent savior of my family becoming the hateful, fearful bastion of racism and bigotry it now appears to be.