The two thoughts I had when first reading this were: why do people hate Bill Gates when his foundation has spent billions helping people, and yet adulate Bezos and Musk for spending their billions on stupid rocket ships?

And: it's appalling to those of us outside America how much the war on women has escalated - Roe vs Wade is just the key focus.

There's no point even mentioning the guns thing.

Brave and passionate piece - thank you. (You might like living in NZ?)