There is a fable that a frog will not jump out of boiling water if he starts out in tepid water and the temperature is increased gradually.
The idea is that when an uncomfortable situation gets worse slowly, we acclimate to the discomfort and do nothing to save ourselves until we eventually are no longer able to save ourselves.
This is the situation we find ourselves in with this current administration. We've devolved to the point where children are being used to force adults to get in line.
No matter what decisions adults make, children should always be protected. We no longer understand this.
We look at past horrors and ask ourselves, how did we let this happen? We say, never again. Yet, it is happening again, and we're not recognizing it because it looks different. Or we are, but we have no new strategy yet to change it.
We keep marching and signing petitions and getting nowhere.
This awful person running this country is the embodiment of evil. He is a manifestation of the worst that is in all of us and his power is only increasing with every horror we allow him to get away with.
This deliberate decision to harm children should have us all revolting against this administration in a way that will affect actual change, and yet, we do nothing different to make the change.
I am the first to admit, I don't have the answer.
But someone does.
Or maybe we all do, together.
Please anyone reading this, please sit silently for a minute today and visualize this policy being reversed and the families back together. It's the only thing I can think to do at the moment, and it's at least a start.
Please also spread the word.
We're stronger together.
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