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@MichaelCohen212 1/ Hello Jake. First of all, thank you for being a great son. May I suggest that you create an email account on protonmail? This way, you can, yourself, sort out the hate mail and print only true correspondence to your father, print them and send them as a package.
@MichaelCohen212 2/ People use less snail mail today and I believe many would like to send a positive word to your dad privately. In the current state of events, many are intimidated by hateful comments from the right and from the left.
@MichaelCohen212 3/ Your father is 3 years younger than me. We lived in a multi-cultural world, Master Yoda was a voice in our heads and we carved our identity out of the guidelines left by our parents. I hear your grandparents were great.
@MichaelCohen212 4/ My parents are atheists but we are of Jewish descent (I discovered it). Even as an atheist, I admire ancient wisdom found in religions. We are approaching the 2 most important high holidays in which *redemption* is a recurring theme.
@MichaelCohen212 5/ In less than 2 months, Rosh HaShana starts and then we have my favorite: Yom Kippur. Why do I mention those? Because your father's final statement will never leave my head. His raw and vivid description of what it is to be dragged by evil.
@MichaelCohen212 6/ It starts softly. You say nothing and evil takes another step. And so on until, after years, evil has gnawed on the very fabric of your identity. Another one of Trump's staff has described exactly the same phenomenon.
@MichaelCohen212 7/ How an uneducated, unintelligent but cunning psychopath can be hypnotic, talking non-stop in dinner parties, no time to think, no time to ponder, until you find yourself complicit. That description is one of a man on the difficult journey of *redemption*.
@MichaelCohen212 8/ I would like to write to him to wish him strength on this journey. To wish him a happy birthday, Shanah tovah and G’mar chatima tovah. I wish him a good journey into the dark waters of self-awareness and may he come out as his own person,
@MichaelCohen212 9/ free and clean of the evil that parasitized his senses, his identity and his beliefs. There is nothing as powerful as family for that. So thank you again for being a great son. I hope you help your father write down every word of his journey of redemption.
@MichaelCohen212 10/ I hope you get it translated into many languages so that all men can hear. We live in a world without hope. Redemption is hope shared. Thank you.
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