I find it fascinating that conservatives are appalled, offended and totally freaking out over the canceling of Roseanne, but I haven't heard a word from any of them about the 1500 young children the government has misplaced. I'm sick to death at the thought of babies and toddlers being removed from their parents' care like they're contraband. We used to be a country with a heart.

I'm not blaming Trump totally for this quantum shift. Believe me, I'm no fan of his but this panophobia we're experiencing on the part of conservatives had to have been there before. But it's as if Trump opened Pandora's box and let all the evils out. He was the catalyst for this explosion of overt hate and intolerance. He made it acceptable to be a racist, a homophobe, a misogyist. The question is how do we get them back in the box? There's a huge contingency of people in this country who hate everyone who isn't white and Christian.

On the other hand, we've always been a violent race that rises by suppressing anything that gets in our way.

I have no answers. Just a whole bunch of questions, the main one being WTF???

Anyone have any opinions on how we get out of this mess?

By the way, for those of you who never saw the series "The Newsroom", the first episode contained a scene which has been haunting me every since. Jeff Daniels plays an anchor at a news station participating in a Q&A panel session with an audience of college students. Please take a few moments to watch it. It's a brilliant piece of writing and acting.