Is This Where We Are Headed, Darlings???????????????????????

                                                "....But gather together, to greet the storm,
                                                      Tomorrow belongs to me."
                                                "Cabaret," 1966, by John Kander and Fred
                                                      Ebb.

                                       Last week was a week of horror.  Sicko anti-Semite Cesar Sayoc was bad enough--and I am not sure there are not things of his still floating around out there--but the incident at Tree Of Life Synagogue this past Saturday, called up for me the most chilling moment in "Cabaret," pictured above.  There have been enough pictures posted of the Pittsburgh horror, so I went for something different, wondering, "Is this happening all over again.  Will it?"

                                          This hurts me personally.  My husband, whom I adore, is Jewish, and I could not be prouder of him.  Growing up in Highland Park, New Jersey, a part of me, while living there, always wanted to be Jewish.  Or at least to go to Hebrew school.

                                            Even more timely, five weeks before, a friend of ours, packed up and left New York City, moving back to Squirrel Hill, where she grew up, and her elderly mother still resides.  I had no idea she would walk into a place that became not only a focal point of horror, but would register as the most deadly attack on the Jewish people in United States history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               What is going on?  What are the answers?  Who or what is to blame?

                                                 I just know there are too many like this Robert Bowers out there.  These people, when I was growing up, were known, collectively, as "The Silent Majority," because they kept their opinions to themselves.  But social media has made it all too easy for these types to voice their opinions outright, working them into a frenzy, which they then act upon.

                                                    And this goes beyond being Right Wing.  I may disagree with such, but those I know who are would not advocate such behavior.

                                                      Social media is a good starting point for examination, but something else out there is giving these types permission to vent in destructive and disturbing ways.
And the question must be asked--who will be next?  More Jews?  Other minorities?  Obviously, these types think only they who are white and have their same views are the true Americans.  The rest of us are minorities, and chump change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        Washington does not help any.  So, each state, each community, must ban together, and be responsible for the safety and rights of one another.

                                                            In just ten days, is the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht.

                                                          Don't let stones come crashing through glass windows, again!!!!!!!!!!

                                         

                                                Here is the "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" sequence, from the film version of "Cabaret."  Be afraid.  Be VERY afraid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!