Letter that might be answered -- the election
I am a "childless cat lady", 60. White female. My father was a refugee from Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. My mother was from a small town in Louisiana and taught High School American History. I was raised with a classic secular humanistic background. My father grew up during WW2& the Holocaust. He didn't want us to be typical spoiled "American brats" and inculcated us with awareness of man's inhumanity to man. I studied the Holocaust on my own, almost compulsively, off and on for my entire life. My parents were alcoholic and narcissistic...I found I identified with the children of Holocaust survivors. Their accounts of how their parents manifested the symptoms of trauma were the closest thing I'd read to how my parents behaved. I am a recovering alcoholic and now practice recovery in a 12 Step group called Adult Children of Alcoholics. I am deeply hostile to religion because of how friendly it is with authoritarianism. I took a lot...