It's difficult to have a happy holiday, celebrating freedom, when it seems that your religion is under attack more than ever. Hostages still have not been returned from the unprovoked attacks of October 7th. Some people say that it was a fabricated situation so that the government could commit genocide against the inhabitants of Gaza, which is why it continues and the humanitarian crisis is so bad. Others say that the situation is being magnified so that the Israelis appear the bad guys and to turn sentiment against them, to force them to separate out a second state or give up the land altogether. And even within Israel, people are fighting the government, divided Jews who cannot agree on an outcome that may not be about winning but about survival.
Riots and protests on college campuses are shutting down the schools, and have broadened to include the police, the American government, and pretty much any institution that the students are against. You can wonder whether there are manipulators taking advantage of the situation to promote their own agendas.
And of course, the House of Representatives is a tedious sideshow that cannot accomplish much of anything because some of the members, on both ends of the political spectrum, are too busy posturing to perform effective governance. Will things get worse before the election? The way some of the candidates are already claiming that the election will have been stolen if they don't win, it looks to be very bad afterwards.
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