As I’ve gotten active fighting for kids’ right to be kids, I’ve seen first hand how broken our town and our country really are. I’m an “old school” liberal that is one of a growing number of politically homeless. Our two choices are very much alike. They both want to dictate how we should live our lives, want to eliminate biological female’s bodily autonomy, deny science, and lie through the media. They both use similar tactics as Hitler, Stalin, Mao. Trump admits he wants to be a dictator. The social justice left tries to create a utopian society by prioritizing infinite division, the destruction of language, and the indoctrination of youth at colleges and public schools. Youth are not pawns, and no child should be made to feel by adults that they are oppressors, victims, or born in the wrong body!

When George Orwell wrote “1984,” he warned, “The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”

Please, wake up, speak up, and unite against this insanity — our children’s future depends on us.

Celeste Peterson

Port Townsend