These Days Are Said To Try Men's Souls
Next Thursday, I buy a house. And all I can really think about is how I need to fortify it and lay in provisions for war.
I'm not joking.
I look at everything going on surrounding Trump and I genuinely fear that war will come. Will we be invaded? Will we launch a strike and be retaliated? Will forces within this country have enough and strike out for justice? I don't know. I just know that as I read about the growing graft and corruption, the growing lack of governmental safeguards enacting, I fear violence is inevitable.
Inevitable and necessary.
I really wish it wasn't necessary. I really do. But I don't think it's a matter of it becoming necessary, I think it's been necessary. I just think most of us are still in denial. There's a moment when a fight starts, where the victim struggles to grasp what's happening. There's a moment where the assailant is the only one who knows what's going on. That's where I think most of the country is. We are either in denial or expecting those whose job it is to manage this, to handle this, to actually step up. And they aren't.
This isn't just about Trump. The volume of police killings is becoming overwhelming. The police ceased to be the good guys in our culture long ago. It started with Rodney King but it's been deteriorating. When I watch a TV show, the police are never the good guys in my mind. When I see the police out in public, I don't feel safer. Quite the opposite. And I'm white. I can only imagine what a non-white person must feel like.
I feel guilty for not sparking the fire myself. I clearly believe there's a need. I'm not sure if its fear or lack of knowhow or if I'm still clinging to the hope that maybe civility will reign in.
My faith in civility is dwindling however.
I'm not joking.
I look at everything going on surrounding Trump and I genuinely fear that war will come. Will we be invaded? Will we launch a strike and be retaliated? Will forces within this country have enough and strike out for justice? I don't know. I just know that as I read about the growing graft and corruption, the growing lack of governmental safeguards enacting, I fear violence is inevitable.
Inevitable and necessary.
I really wish it wasn't necessary. I really do. But I don't think it's a matter of it becoming necessary, I think it's been necessary. I just think most of us are still in denial. There's a moment when a fight starts, where the victim struggles to grasp what's happening. There's a moment where the assailant is the only one who knows what's going on. That's where I think most of the country is. We are either in denial or expecting those whose job it is to manage this, to handle this, to actually step up. And they aren't.
This isn't just about Trump. The volume of police killings is becoming overwhelming. The police ceased to be the good guys in our culture long ago. It started with Rodney King but it's been deteriorating. When I watch a TV show, the police are never the good guys in my mind. When I see the police out in public, I don't feel safer. Quite the opposite. And I'm white. I can only imagine what a non-white person must feel like.
I feel guilty for not sparking the fire myself. I clearly believe there's a need. I'm not sure if its fear or lack of knowhow or if I'm still clinging to the hope that maybe civility will reign in.
My faith in civility is dwindling however.