Stress-Blogging: June 2, 2025

 As an American, I've been wanting to voice my concerns regarding the direction our country's leadership and effect on the rest of the world is taking. Both for my anxiety and because I'm genuinely curious. Besides, it's in the United States Constitution that I'm entitled to peacefully protest my thoughts and opinions, and unless I've directly contributed to something illegal, then it's a federal law that there's nothing anyone can do about it, so if you don't like this, don't read it. You're not required to agree with someone, you know! 

I'd just like to ask a few questions. I figured that if the head of our country is so concerned with social media, to the point that he'll tweet confidential information and who knows what else, this could finally get his attention.

 Mr. Trump, if you're reading this, to reiterate, I'm not criticizing you, I just want to ask a few questions to you and if not you, your followers.   

I'd just like to say that I don't think you've really thought these decisions through. Just because something benefits you doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. For example, why exactly are people born with a silver spoon in their mouths getting massive tax cuts, while people who can barely pay their rent have to fund crazy things? Look up some of the things taxpayer money has funded lately. 

And ICE now has the right to enter a school without a search warrant. So, they're more worried about cultural integration in schools than about a little thing like, say, weaponry, funding, maintaining buildings, providing decent food, or protecting and educating children? 

On a related note, we can't gloss over say, the Holocaust, slavery or the Native American Cultural Extermination in schools just because it makes white people uncomfortable. That's the whole point! If we don't teach the next generation about all the mistakes people have made in the past, how are we going to prevent them from being repeated in the future? 

And the people who want these things out of the curriculum say they want to protect the feelings of white people because it makes them feel guilty. What about the feelings of everyone else? Yolanda Renee King is only sixteen years old and she's still following in her grandfather's footsteps. Both because it's the right thing to do and because someone needs to keep the trail Dr. King blazed alive. There are people out there who are surprised to learn that Anne Frank's Diary was a true story because they were never taught about the Holocaust because people thought it'd be too "traumatic". So, we should just let the descendants of the several thousand people who lost their lives have their stories remain untold to avoid causing a little discomfort? It's supposed to make you feel guilty. The whole point is to teach kids what careless words or actions can lead to, so they understand not to try it for themselves. 

I know we want to protect our children, but as a very wise Blue Tang fish once said, "you can't never let anything happen to them, because then nothing would ever happen to them". Which is true. If you never have any exposure to anything outside your comfort zone, how are you going to learn the difference between right and wrong? And to answer the excuse I know you're about to use, if everyone did everything exactly the same way over and over forever, wouldn't that get boring? If nothing different ever happens, nobody would ever have any ideas and thus, nothing would ever happen. 

We'd still have Scarlet Fever and Smallpox if Edward Jenner's perspective hadn't led him to discover that milkmaids who had had Cowpox couldn't get Smallpox because exposure to the less dangerous Cowpox virus had strengthened their immune system against the similar, more dangerous Smallpox virus. 

In fact, did you know that chocolate chip cookies were actually an accident caused by thinking differently? Ruth Graves Wakefield decided to try something new and chop up a chocolate bar to use in her cookies when she ran out of baker's chocolate at the last minute.

Basically, my point is that just because you like the outcome of something or you get something out of it doesn't mean you don't have to think through the possible consequences. Please, I beg you, put yourselves in the shoes of those you've villainized. Does it feel as good as it did before now?