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Hello everyone!
Meet the DEB in DEBoRAHcratic!
Welcome one and all to my podcast, Deborahcratic!
I have always loved to get to know people, and on the show, I, Deborah Drucker, will be introducing you to some of our fellow Americans. In our neighborhood, our lives, or just absolute strangers out there, there is no need to be famous. We all have a story to tell!
On DEBoRAHcratic, I want to talk about all those things that we were always told not to. Politics, religion, sexuality and mostly, how each guest sees our country through their own personal story. My goal is to experience the things that make each of us uniquely us. We have far more in common, then we have differences.
I love my country and am a patriotic American to my core. I have always believed that America is the great melting pot. Let’s get together and unify for our collective greatness. We’ve been divided by politics, a pandemic, social media and emotional discourse for long enough. It is time for us to come together. We either stand united, or fall divided. I hope to make that happen even just a little bit here on DEBoRAHcratic.
About my own ‘melting pot’ experience… I was born on an air force base in Mt. Clemens, Michigan to an Irish Catholic father and a Sephardic mother from Morocco. My Dad, Jim, was a staunch patriot and said he’d fight his entire life for American democracy, if called upon. My father fought in three wars for this country. He later worked as an airplane mechanic for MacDonnell Douglas. When the work was scarce he’d work his fingers to the bone at the oil refineries in Long Beach, California.
My Mother became a naturalized American citizen, a productive tax paying and hardworking contributor to this country. She always said we live in the greatest place on earth. “We have it all here,” she would tell me. Never a day passed that she was not grateful for her citizenship.
Mom later married a naturalized American who came here as a teenager after hiding from the Nazis during the second World War. My stepfather, Severin, raised me with the full knowledge and consent of my biological father. My dad Jim suffered many demons, and knew I’d be in better hands with Severin. He told me that “I will always have his blood.”
My stepfather, later my adopted father, went to high school in Los Angeles, but he became too ill to graduate. After some time, he recovered and went straight to work. He worked from one job to the next and eventually found his calling in the fashion and jewelry business. Upon his newfound success, I would venture to say that he contributed 60 cents on every dollar he made to people in need. By the time he passed away in 2008, he had helped improve the lives of nearly 700,000 Americans through his foundation. He gave them a hand up, not a hand out.
I didn’t go to college, I went to work. First as a stock and inventory girl at a local clothing store, then as a salesgirl at a local jewelry store. I started working at the age of fourteen during summer break from school, then full time once I graduated high school. I never thought I’d struggle to make ends meet because this is America, and I was willing to work wherever I could get a job to make my way.
I later met and married my husband, Lee, an American musician and founding member of the Rockabilly band, the Stray Cats. We have two adult kids and have been married for a long time now. We have raised our kids to love and respect our country. We pay our taxes, we do our part to help others in need and we stay as factually informed as we can to the state of America, and the world.
These past few years have affected me profoundly. I broke down to tears while watching the insurrection on January 6, 2020. Never in my life did I think I would see such disrespect for the structure our country was built upon and a most shameful, disturbing misuse of the symbol of our country, the glorious American flag. I was taught the flag was sacred and could only be handled a certain way, with respect and great care.
Having learned through my adopted dad, school and various Holocaust programs about the atrocities committed throughout history, the recent slew of antisemitic and racist rhetoric is highly alarming. Even more so when the flame is being fanned by politicians and representatives in office whose salaries are paid by our tax dollars.
The anxiety in me was building, which only became exhausting and unproductive. I started talking to and listening to people to hear their stories. I wanted to know how they felt about the things we all have been through these past few years as a country, and thus, DEBoRAHcratic was born!
It is my hope that we can find common ground as Americans so we can see and appreciate the similarities within each other. Our upbringings, our family structures, our love of sports, music, food, fashion, television shows, passions and aspirations. Welcome to my podcast.
With love,
Deborah(cratic)
