It's hard at times to reconcile with the fact that we are essentially living in two very different realities in the United States.

In one of those realities (the actual one most of us are living in), a growing number of people across the political spectrum are angered, terrified and disgusted by actions being taken in their names by people and agencies which seem to have little or no accountability. They're exhausted by the constant airing of grievances having little to do with what's actually going on in the country, and by the broad generalizations about, well, everything, that ignore context, nuance and facts to promote a political viewpoint.

In the other, committing a crime of any kind is apparently OK as long as you're the right kind of partisan, God chooses sides in politics, accountability is for losers, might makes right, and facts, schmacts.

Of course, as I'm writing this, I'm recovering from a sinus/ear infection, so who knows? Maybe I'm imagining it all. And yet ...

I see evidence of these different realities every day, in letters, social media posts, and news about what's been going on. There's anger about ICE actions in Minnesota and elsewhere, as well as those who defend the actions as righteous. There's lingering resentment over the 2020 election, and........

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