I don’t know what my children will remember of the America I have shown them. I am trying to teach them while I can, so they will know the difference between a deeply flawed democracy and a country that ceases to be a democracy at all. They know that practices like slavery that were accepted as “normal” in US history are today considered an abomination, and that rationalizing cruelty was what allowed them to last for so long. I told them to never consider cruel policies as normal, no matter what politicians and pundits tell them.
