The political vitriol that has been grinding away since 2016 is choking the tolerance out of me.

The increasingly ugly, harsh, angry, and hateful language used on social media is laced with bitter criticism, personal attacks, and a lack of constructive dialogue.

The intensely negative, accusatory language used over the past few months when expressing political opinions seems particularly biting, discrediting, and demeaning, and it’s hideously appalling and corrosive.

Nothing productive can come from it, yet it drags on endlessly.

And it has gone way past the point of critical. It’s bitter and dehumanizing.

All sides have gone insane. Inflammatory social media posts include words and phrases like “you’re dead to me,” “vermin,” “enemy from within,” “slime dogs,” and “Nazi Barbie.”

Ouch.

Now, I’m not suggesting that any of this hatefulness was meant for me. But maybe it was.

Because, yes, I post some political stuff, but it’s all been centered around Jew hating. The Jew hating and Jew baiting has indeed become a maddening reality.

When I feel that I can’t safely wear my Jewish Star in public—right here in the U.S. of A, something has gone terribly wrong, no?

Would anyone disagree that Jews here in the U.S. have been unfairly targeted?

Duh, yes. Many. Okay, more than many, which doesn’t make me want to rage, it makes me want to cry.

Although if you’re not Jewish, or you don’t live in Jewish communities, you can’t possibly experience Jew hatred firsthand.

And I hope you never feel unsafe wearing a cross, regardless of your political affiliation.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughtered in Islamic terrorist attacks, and the myriad Islamic regimes in the Middle East terrorize, torture, jail, and commit horrific violations against their people EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Yet, somehow, it’s the Jews who are the terrorizing demons against people who have been warring with them since the 1870s.

Is there nowhere else in the world worthy of American outrage?

What about the Ukrainians, Rohingya, the Maghreb and Sahel regions of Africa, the Sudanese, Somali, and Syrian civil wars, the Ethiopian, Congolese, Cameroonian, Yemeni, and Afghan civil conflicts, the Mexican drug war, Kurdish separatists and Pakistan-India insurgencies, civil unrest in Venezuela, the Indo-Pakistani wars, and the Kashmir conflict?

Nada.

No outrage on American college campuses. No taking to American streets demanding the elimination of a people, country, or state.

ONLY OUTRAGE AGAINST THE JEWS.

So yes, I do state my political Jewish opinion, and yes, I openly demonize Islamist terrorists and their brutal regimes.

But please note that I do not demonize or single out any one person or political party.

I gave up on hating Trump when the Democrats lost the 2024 election. I’m tired, and I did my part. I voted. (Not for him.) He won. The power of one, right?

And please don’t tell me the 2024 election was rigged. I’ve had my fill of rigged election conspiracy theories.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MADE THEIR CHOICE BASED ON THE CHOICES THEY WERE GIVEN.

I get all the Trump-hating, although I think there are glimmers of reality in some of what he says. And I can see why there is outrage about many of his policies. I said “some,” and “many,” so please think twice before you unfriend me, because I’m the same person I was last week, last month, in 2016, and way before that.

And I think everyone deserves to have a voice, but when someone calls Trump “Hitler,” it sickens me.

Or when someone compares the current unseemly and yes, horrible immigration situation to Nazi Concentration Camps, it makes me cringe.

HELLO.

NOTHING that has ever happened here in the U.S. can compare to what Jews (including my in-laws) endured during the Holocaust.

To say otherwise is ignorant hyperbole, and it makes me doubt your motive and empathy for the Jewish suffering.

How anyone can equate ANYTHING that is happening in the United States to the Nazi gas chambers is willfully uninformed at best and in complete denial at worst.

Well, the worst would be if you’re a Jew hating, Holocaust denier.

I’ve been accused of “drinking the Kool-Aid,” which I haven’t, but using the Holocaust and gas chambers to prove a point about the current haphazard handling of illegal immigration is way worse than anything I’ve been drinking lately.