When the person standing in front of you is disrespecting who you are, they need to know and you need to be the one to let them know how angry it makes you.
In truth, I thought I would only be gone a short while. But the more I traveled, the further I went. I traveled so far from anything that resembled her.
A deeper cut reveals a culture of psychopathy: a party sickened by its hatred, misogyny and xenophobia; grown too accustomed to deceit; blaming others for its missteps; compromised by a paralysis of ideas; resorting to character assassination and abject humiliation of perceived enemies; ...