I have for a while believed that, *this is who we are* as apposed to the, *this is not who we are*.
What is unexpected, alarming, hard for me to take in is the hate. The vitriol and advantage that some have taken of the mask being stripped off … while wearing a mask.
It’s the little things. Like the small 12” x 18” flag near my front door, “Hate Won’t Make Us Great” that I had to remove. My neighbor, “Mrs (DJT) Kravitz” inquired to the HOA, “how long can we leave a sign or posting up in our yards?” Or the angry “billionaires” that flip off or angrily yell at, depending on the weekend, 50 to 500 of us peacefully protesting in town out on HWY 101. They have to be billionaires right? It’s a small percentage of who drive by as we stand out there peacefully, but still.
And it’s the big things. I try not to watch these videos but I watched a couple last night of ICE taking down individuals. Four, five or six guys taking down one. Two or three full on running someone down. Literally taking them or knocking them down to the ground more aggressively than what you’ll see on Monday night football. Four, five or six masked guys tackling one guy who is half the size of one of them. In one the person recording the video was asking, surprisingly calmly, who are you? What are you doing? Where are you from? Do you have a badge? Over and over. No response. Except an occasional FU. But he kept asking, who are you? At one point the person said, “you’re ruining our country”. One of the masked unfortunates said, “liberals already did that”. Ah. Revenge is powerful isn’t it?
So partial answer to the question as to how can people do this to other people? They have been conditioned lead to believe that one subset of people have done them wrong. They now get to go after “them”! The “they”, the ones who have done them wrong! “They” have taken something that they believed that they deserved. Deserved just because they were a certain subset of people. In this case, white male. Slightly overweight fragile white male I’ll add. With no requirements or qualifications required, probably with a criminal record and more dangerous than the poor soul they just smashed to the ground. Or the video of the white deplorable shooting the Black marine in a wheelchair in Seattle.
These crush me.
We are now in the throws(literally) of destruction from ill informed, unqualified, dangerous, mediocre white men and women. Mostly men. Who otherwise would not have been hired, not because of DEI, but because they just fucking aren’t qualified, period! Sorry men, I do know several white men who are not mediocre, unfortunately they are not in positions that matter. Positions that can and will have an impact on your life, my life and the lives of those we love and care about. For those who love and care more about the safety of their loved ones more than who they voted for.
It is the anger that I cannot comprehend. It is the anger that is motivation that I cannot take in or understand. It is also what feeds that anger that I cannot comprehend. And how some believe it lock, stock and barrel and others see the lie a mile a way.
It seems to me that the abuse, the physical abuse that we are seeing today, has escalated to an unsettling, startling level, to say the least. That the few that have been surreptitiously, maybe illegally hire and mostly unqualified have been given the power to do what I think many of us believed is racist, criminal and illegal. Physical actions, arrests toward Black and Brown people for no reason with no due process done by men with hoods to cover their identity. They fear a lot don’t they?
This has now been unleashed to include, well people. I am not saying that white supremacy hasn’t been while maybe hidden a bit, alive and well. With this new “ICE” they have license to take anyone down individually or within a group. And white supremacy certainly has a sickening new acceptance among some. Seriously, these men come from out of nowhere. Doesn’t it seem random? They have been given permission to put their anger into action, their resentment onto their perceived enemy, cover up their weakness with this payback. Payback for what? The manufactured fabricated world created by ONE that no ONE stopped. NO one!
Dissent is a crime. Descent has been abandoned.
“the thing that Trump realized was that there were all of these white people who wanted to be “free of the requirements of decency.”
~Sherrilyn Ifill