The recent senate deliberation on the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as attorney-general was a perfect snapshot of the new political discourse, or lack thereof, in Trump's America: a female Democrat was silenced for reading a letter by an African-American civil rights icon about the voter-suppression record of a senator from Alabama, on the grounds that such records were false defamations of his character. Alternate facts with a side order of racism and a pinch of misogyny sprinkled over the top. Disgusting.
If Betsy DeVos can be Education Secretary, on the basis of having guns in schools to protect us against Grizzly Bears, then anyone in the USA can certainly become a proud gun owner and do whatever it is you to do with them. We can't let hatred and fear be the loudest voice.
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