The Seneca Project Asks: “What Happened to the Country that Raised Us on Mr Rogers and Sesame Street”

How far has this country fallen in the last seven months.

On the 56th Anniversary of humanity landing on the Moon, the Seneca Project has released an ad showcasing another aspect of how far this nation has fallen in the seven short months since Mr. Trump and his Know Nothing, Project 2025, Science and History denying MAGA apostate rabble has returned to power-the gutting of federal funding to PBS and NPR.

In the below ad, the project shows how Fred Rogers saved PBS funding at a Senate hearing in the late 1960’s and then pivots to how Mr. Trump and PBS adverse MAGA Republicans fulfilled their decades long dream to eliminate federal funding for it.

Please click below to watch.

The most poignant part of the narrators remarks comes at the last minute when she said:

“55 years later, Republicans voted in the middle of the night to gut PBS Children’s Programming. Not because we can’t afford it but because they forgotten what really matters. Fred Rogers didn’t just defend public television. He defended our childhoods and the soul of this nation and in the end, kindness won the day. What happened to the country that raised us on Mr Rogers and Sesame Street? And what do we do with the mad that we feel when they rifpaway our magic?”

The ad ends with a comment from Mr. Rogers where he says:

‘Love? Is that the root of everything. All learning, All parenting, All relationships? Love or the lack of it.”

Indeed.

One does not see a lot of love or desire to learn or foster healthy relationships among Mr. Trump and his MAGA apostates who seem to thrive on division, feed on ignorance, and relish cruelty.

Rogers is right. The people must fight with love. Love of people. Love of knowledge. Love of possibilities. Love of country.

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