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Lochlee · 51-55, F
Where are from from originally?
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
These protests are not an isolated event. You've been seeing an increase in protesting in recent years, increasing apathy in the voting process, increased hatred towards the media, increasing distrust in our fellow Americans, and increased divisiveness and polarization among our leaders. These protests are revealing what has been bubbling beneath the surface for decades: the fact that we are a divided nation. People are living in very different Americas.
And it's not just along racial lines. There are economic, generational, religious, and ideological fractures all over the country. Nobody is sitting down to talk, nobody is willing to listen, so everyone is just shouting their beliefs at each other. And eventually people get tired of that and take their anger out in the form of threats, violence, and riots.
This country is broken beyond simple demographic categories. There's a sense of hopelessness among so many people that they don't know how to escape other than rejecting the system entirely, discarding civility, and refusing to acknowledge or interact with entire segments of the population. Everyone is busy pointing fingers to preserve the only thing they feel they have left, their identity, and in doing so they aren't even aware of the crumbling walls around them.
The country needs hope. It needs to believe that we can do better than this, but more importantly it needs to realize that nothing will ever improve until we can talk to each other, treat each other with respect, and realize that it's going to take all of us to bring about progress. Because all there is now is bad faith and frustration and the billionaires are laughing all the way to bank while we squabble.
And it's not just along racial lines. There are economic, generational, religious, and ideological fractures all over the country. Nobody is sitting down to talk, nobody is willing to listen, so everyone is just shouting their beliefs at each other. And eventually people get tired of that and take their anger out in the form of threats, violence, and riots.
This country is broken beyond simple demographic categories. There's a sense of hopelessness among so many people that they don't know how to escape other than rejecting the system entirely, discarding civility, and refusing to acknowledge or interact with entire segments of the population. Everyone is busy pointing fingers to preserve the only thing they feel they have left, their identity, and in doing so they aren't even aware of the crumbling walls around them.
The country needs hope. It needs to believe that we can do better than this, but more importantly it needs to realize that nothing will ever improve until we can talk to each other, treat each other with respect, and realize that it's going to take all of us to bring about progress. Because all there is now is bad faith and frustration and the billionaires are laughing all the way to bank while we squabble.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
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You couldn't write a better script for this latest event. Millions stuck at home, without work, fearful about their lives, their future, and then add tragedy unfolding upon a relationship that was already strained. Honestly, it's not an outcome that's too difficult to predict.
DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
my opinion is that everyone needs to wake up and be aware that this is not the destruction of rioters and protesters. it is an outside inside job where antifa is paying people to come in and they are articulating these riots and paying crisis actors to engage in these activities to cause racial diversion and make the right mad at the left and so on
skip2mylou · 31-35, M
@DeluxedEdition True to a certain a extent, it isn't just Antifa people causing riots though. I know because in my city I've seen my own people doing this who aren't affiliated with them.
DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
@skip2mylou no of course. they make it seem like the riots are going on and then bystanders say oh everyone else is throwing rocks and looting so so am i
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
bijouxbroussard · F
[quote] Many of us don't vote[/quote]
That’s basically why nothing changes. If you’re a citizen that means you don’t care anyway, so the rest is moot. And if you’re [b]black [/b] and don’t vote, that’s a slap in the faces of people who were lynched fighting to get access to the ballot.
That’s basically why nothing changes. If you’re a citizen that means you don’t care anyway, so the rest is moot. And if you’re [b]black [/b] and don’t vote, that’s a slap in the faces of people who were lynched fighting to get access to the ballot.
[c=#359E00]the chaos over there really entertaining for me[/c]
