Deep breath, I may not even be staying on here... Disclaimer: not an RFK Jr. fan, and I didn't vote for Trump. BUT A lot of dems are mocking. And wondering why they lost. Let's say you are a mother. You had a child, and got them vaccinated on schedule. Everything was fine. Then you had another child. He responded differently to the vaccines--a low grade fever for about 2 weeks. Screaming 4 hours every night. Inconsolable. You talk to your doctor about it, and he says some babies are just like that. Colic. The 2 week fever along with the piercing screaming become so common that you mark 2 weeks off on the calendar after each vaccine appointment, because you know you'll be holding a baby screaming for 4 hours every night. That will be your life. You're a mom. Suck it up. This is what you signed up for. You were just spoiled with a good baby before. As your second child gets older, he can't handle his behavior. You know something is wrong. The doctor says it's all in your head. Some moms are just anxious. You start studying how to reach your child. You go to parenting seminars. You completely reformulate how you discipline. You make allowances. He's not autistic. But his nervous system is off. He can't handle some things. His eyes and ears both get overwhelmed with information easily. He has trouble controlling his body. It's just boys. The doctor says. It's just 2nd kids are different. Pretty soon your child is so difficult that no one wants to watch your child--not even grandparents. "She just doesn't discipline him" they tell people. "She gives in too easily." So you never get a break. Ever. Finally you are at the end of your rope. Does your child need medicine, drugs, whatever. You don't care. He grows bigger and more violent. You get a prescription to calm him down. But before you can even give him a first dose, all his hair falls out--down to his eyelashes. The doctors say, it's autoimmune. There's nothing they can do. Steroids are an option, with a side effect of making him more violent, perhaps. You decide bald is fine. But you seek out more doctors. They all shrug their shoulders. You finally go to a functional medicine doctor. They find a 2nd auto immune disease, and load up your child with supplements and completely change his diet. Finally, the violence stops. Your son says it's like he was a porcupine, and now his quills are finally down. He's able to function. He goes to occupational therapy, and joins various sports that help him recalibrate his nervous system. He'll be able to lead a normal life. But it'll take work. He works his butt off. You turn in all the test results from your functional medicine doctor to your pediatrician, and they immediately put your other children on a different vaccine schedule. You still believe in vaccines, but there's a genetic component going on with your son. Whether the autoimmune disease caused the vaccine reaction, or the vaccines cause the autoimmune disease, no one knows. But your other kids need to be monitored more closely with vaccines. They need a different protocol. You and your doctor discuss which vaccines address more life threatening illnesses, and prioritize. Your new MD grumbles under her breath that your original pediatrician should have reported your son's reactions. They were reportable reactions. But what do I know? I'm just a mom. I'm just a non-medically trained woman. I'm stressed by hours of my son's screaming. I'm probably just anxious. So we turn in vaccine paperwork for our other kids. "You google too much" says the schools. "You're paranoid" says the extended family. "Your son isn't allowed to race" says the sports authorities. He doesn't have his covid vaccine. "Your son has 2 autoimmune diseases" says your pro-vaccine MD specialist. If he has it he could die. I'll sign a note. I'll have 2 other doctors sign notes too. He can participate, but he has conditions that need monitoring." "We don't need your right-wing conspiracy theories here" people say. "Vaccines are safe for everyone." "You're rejecting science" others say. Me: I like vaccines, I promise. My mom had polio, and I'm grateful for them. But they aren't safe for everyone. And I wish people would stop saying that. Policies should put doctors in charge, without the pharmaceutical lobby funding these policies. Doctors should listen to moms. All the stupid conspiracy theories started, because doctors didn't listen to moms. I'm not the only one who has this story. Dems of all people who embrace the "me too" movement should know that ignoring women's cries for help is sometimes systematic. These issues are complex. I do think RFK Jr. is a nut job in lots of ways. But please stop with the vast generalizations, and embrace the complexities that our medical system in the US sucks sometimes because the pharmaceutical lobby is corrupt. The more dems name call with vast generalizations, the more it proves, they don't know why they lost.

“My life would be so much better if I were a stay at home mom!” There’s a reason I push back against this. Yes, I love being a stay at home mom. Yes, it is harder than it looks. Yes, it’s good for kids. But also, I love being a working mom. I think women can work too. And people tend to focus on data, and numbers, and what is better for family/culture/kids etc. And that’s fine. But it’s impersonal, and lacks nuance, and isn’t helpful for women struggling in their situations. I know a handful of lovely young women who would love to be a stay at home mom and can’t find a decent guy. I push back because I know these women. And I know their hearts. And I pray with them. Spiritually speaking, how do we handle wanting something we don’t have, and is out of reach? Once you get married, you want to have kids, and then you want sleep, and then you’re always broke and you always want, always want, if we just get, as soon as we do this, soon we will be…happy. Friends, God loves you and gave you everything you need in him. Serve and love your neighbor—at home, at work, wherever he puts you. With kids, without kids, poor or rich, married or single. There’s corporate climbing, and there’s family climbing. It’s all climbing. The good life is serving your neighbor with the love of Jesus.