(I've sent the following to every email contact I have)
I can no longer pretend everything is hunky dory with me & those who regardless of countless red flags voted republican Nov '24. I know the vast majority of my friends voted their moral code, but not all. It's time to plant my flag. I choose democracy and the rule of law. No friendship is worth continuing if you chose this intellectually vacant narcissist and his sycophants to lead this once great country. The world is appalled and our allies are disappearing faster than DOJ can redact the Epstein files. The cold blooded murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis was the last straw. Welcome to tyranny. And those in "power" telling me I didn't see what I saw with my own two eyes is right out of Goebbels playbook. But don't take my word for it. This government sanctioned brutality reminds 92 year old G*** from Croatia who I had the privilege of being paired with on the golf course this summer of "Nazi Germany." G*** was a refugee during WW2. One day his father & brother just vanished. Soon after his grief stricken mother collapsed & died on a Paris sidewalk in front of him. Alone on the streets, he survived on stale bread & thin soup if he could find it. To quote a grimacing G***, "I haven't touched a god-damned bowl of soup in over 70 years, I detest it!" In 1953 G*** found his way to the US & like millions of immigrants realized the American dream that has been under siege just blocks from my doorstep here in Chicago. Ever since January '25 this totalitarian government has lowered the bar with no bottom too low in sight. Elections have consequences. Boy fucking howdy do they ever.