There’s a kind of pressure that shows up when people prepare to speak.

It’s not always obvious at first, but it tends to shape everything that follows. A quiet belief that in order to be taken seriously, you need to sound a certain way. More polished. More impressive. More… intelligent.

Last night I saw the movie, “Civil War,” with some friends. To say the movie was disturbing would be a huge understatement. This dystopic movie showed us what a second Civil War would look like in a third term under a fascist dictator.