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The US is Getting a Big Fat Lesson in Abuse

And some folks still won’t acknowledge their part in it

Amber Fraley
3 min readNov 21, 2022
Photo by History in HD on Unsplash

“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.”
-Lindsey Graham

It seems the day of reckoning has come for the abusers in American culture, and boy do they hate it.

The Republican party, after lifting a known thief, conman, racist, sexual abuser into the White House now wants him to go away because he’s not winning them elections anymore. Well… at least some of them do.

Only trump isn’t going away. Because abusers don’t let go of their victims without a fight.

To watch the abusers now squirm and cry and shake their fists at trump is too delicious. The party that regularly abuses women, LGBTQ Americans, and Black and brown Americans, are now being terrorized by their own super Nazi they created and empowered, and they seem legitimately shocked by the whole situation.

Employers across the country are bemoaning the fact they can’t get people to work for them when they pay their employees like crap, demand their employees work more than 40 hours a week, don’t want to let their employees take off work for vacation or health reasons, and don’t offer paid insurance. Instead of offering better to attract workers, lots of employers are…

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Amber Fraley
Amber Fraley

Written by Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.

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