In response to the question at left:

Of course; it’s their lives.  But I’d be saddened.

I told my kids when they were young that they would have far more rewarding lives if they were able to fashion their careers out of working with their minds rather than their hands.

Trade School?

Most of us can’t.

We’re too old. we have children and grandchildren here, we have a medical team that knows us and keeps use healthy, we’re embedded in careers, etc., etc.

So many of us would love to away from this budding fascist empire, but we simply cannot.

Rich People of Conscience Can Leave the Country and Move to a Less Hateful and Ignorant Land, But …

To an ever-increasing number of us living in modern-day America, the answer would be: Everything we learned in kindergarten, i.e., sharing, being nice to others, and telling the truth.

My kindergarten teacher, Alice Adams, never told us that it was a dog-eat-dog world out there. Or if she did, I must have been home with a cold that day.

The Value of What We Learned in School