It seems that the other side of the “I’m not proud,” movement is to consistently ignore the progress that has been made. Like the civil war never happened. A continuous drum beat of “Nation of deplorables,” soon becomes a noise that people just turn away from instead of wanting to fix.
In addition, there are too many who ignore our current reality. Many of the immigrants come here with no intent of starting over. They want to bring their laws to our country. They do not believe in separation of church and state, which is a fundamental principal that many on both sides used to agree to.
Watching a group that will fight against misogyny at every corner, turn around and defend a culture of misogyny is surreal to us older liberals.
We’ve moved away from fixing what’s wrong to just bashing everything that offends us.