Last week I subbed for a high school government teacher, a wonderful educator. Unfortunately, she had me watch the State of the Union Speech given by Voldemort, oh, I mean, the president. I had specifically not watched it (I just don't have the stomach for him), and I was worried that I wasn't competent to be in charge of such a volatile subject with students. The teacher helping me to set up told me, though, that the fans of the president were, for the most, part pretty intimidated in speaking out.
While I believe people are misguided at best and willfully ignorant or worse at worst for believing in the man and his minions, I felt badly for those students. My empathy beat my politics.
But, isn't it funny, then, when this came to me from my relative. I felt badly while one of the minions feels nothing but contempt.
Today and Yesterday
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