John,
Tomorrow is my birthday, and I’ve been thinking about how my life started. Two people coming together, not knowing what it would become or if their plans for the future would work out.
Then I had a funny thought: that’s kind of how the country started. These men came together, hopeful for something new and beautiful and better, not knowing what it would become.
It’s so easy to romanticize the past, but there were many problems with our country at the start. Right now, we’re on track to experience them ourselves.
Women’s rights have taken the worst hits over the past two years. The right to bodily autonomy is disappearing across the country. Women also did not have the right to work or the right to vote in 1776. What if one of those is next, after abortion?
Other minorities are seeing their rights attacked, too. As a gay dad, my right to marry has been mentioned by Supreme Court justices as something they want to redetermine. My right to raise my kids is also in question.