Apologies
Don't ... Just don't
Don't apologize for what is happening – you voted for this to happen. If you're only feeling remorse now that bad things are happening to you or someone close to you, then I was wrong about you being an empathetic and compassionate person. This apology is disingenuous and insulting.
If you didn't want these things to happen to us, then you wouldn't have supported the people who said they were going to do these things.
If you didn't want these things to happen to us, then who were you okay with this happening to? And why would that have been okay?
This, or some variation of it, has been lodged in my brain for the past couple months, while we exist on the edge of the cliff ... waiting for the layoff notice for my wife's position at the CDC. It is a response to the apologies I expect to receive once they get the news that it happened. Weeks of wondering if this will be the week when the clowns in charge eliminate her position.
There are many people with larger concerns and problems than us. People are being harmed all over this country by this administration – people being detained and exiled to foreign prisons (deportation is the wrong word for what is happening), people in worse financial shape or precarious conditions are being laid off, children dying from preventable illnesses, there are so many harms being done.
However, the impending CDC layoffs are our immediate reality, and I'm just waiting for that apology from close family, people who abdicated their moral responsibility when they threw in with hate and the destruction of the current administration.
I don't want apologies from them. I want them to finally realize the harm their decisions have caused, and to start doing something to counter their actions.