What? Even the subhumans?!
yikes. Ok, I get it. I do- I get the fear and the anger, all over. But we can’t do this anymore you guys! We have to reach out. We have to see each other as parts of the same place. The person you may be calling subhuman may be a farmer who we depend on making it happen thanklessly, or the fireman, or the person who responds when we call 911 when our Dad has a heart attack minutes after protesting the police. It may be the doctor or the scientist who has been working double time and relentlessly with both feet shackled and hands tied behind back since March while everyone else is complaining about bars and haircuts. It might be the teacher, or the road repair guy, the mailman, the soldier, grocery stock person, or cafeteria worker. It might be any number of the people who as a whole we all depend on at some important junction in the way our country works and survives. A person you count on in ways you don’t have to consider because they are always there. Maybe it is someone who didn’t have the privilege to get the education you did, to understand the way you do- or maybe there is a perspective that because of your privilege you cannot conceive of yourself.
We haven’t lost faith in our government as much as we have lost faith in each other. We have lost faith that we have reasons for the way we believe and that when push comes to shove though, we are all one country and we will find a way. THIS is what we have to fight against. Joe Biden can’t save us, Donald trump can’t save us- because what we lost was our sense of One Nation. We have lost our American identity, and we gave it up like whores to the sensationalism of CNN and Fox News. We got lazy and lost our way. We blame each other for atrocities that have never come to pass. Quake with fear over extremism that doesn’t have a chance to thrive in our society if we have a sense of community and responsibility towards each other. You have to absolutely resist the concept that any one American is less than another. You have to do it or we will all lose horribly, in unimaginable ways. If you think I am kidding or being idealistic- consider this- we are THE ONLY COUNTRY in the world that refuses to wear masks to save other American lives because the goddamn pandemic has been POLITICIZED. WTF?? Our inability to gather trust and responsibility towards fellow citizens, has the most vulnerable among us DYING at a rate of over a thousand a day. That is the consequences we are reaping because we REFUSE to listen to one another, and instead sit in front of a screen and look for ways to fill ourselves with more evidence with which to hate. We have to stop. We have to. Stop calling each other morons, greedy, stupid, subhuman. Vote for who you vote for but stop stirring the hatred among us. We have to find a way to bridge the divide, if you destroy the other half, YOUR HALF DIES TOO. We are one nation and we need each other. Like it or not, WE NEED EACH OTHER. When you capitulate to those attitudes you have done nothing but shit in your own house. My call was to find a way to stop feeding the divide. It is the most dangerous thing we are doing. It is up to you. It is up to me, no one in the government can make us stop fucking this up as bad as we are. Look around you- as bad as it feels right now to have America as disjointed as it is, turning against each other only ensures it stays bad and spirals to worst.
They chose trump because they no longer had any faith that we would listen to them and care about them. We showed over and over that all we cared about was if they said the right words or made the right gestures. We didn’t care about their poverty and struggle too. We banished them in our minds as ignorant and unimportant because they didn’t act the way we wanted and champion the causes that concerned us. Welp, when it came back on us in reverse, over the past four years when we saw everything we cared about trashed and damaged- how has that felt? I’m asking you to be uncomfortable, very very uncomfortable with that same discomfort forced on others without an open mind towards compromise, being the measure of what you care about concerning your fellow American. We all share this country and I am sick of sharing it with people who hate me and don’t believe in me when I drag exhausted to work to once again face the danger to save your lives. I have no one to blame but myself if I refuse to consider the life and concerns of the people that occupy half of my home. If I refuse to value the life and contribution of my fellow citizen, If I ridicule their fears and values- what can I expect in return??
I am asking you to resist the idea that we can stay divided and survive, I ask you to remember who we used to be when we rolled up our sleeves and found a way to be here together, when we trusted each other as one Nation. It is a LIE- that there are only two extremes. We are better than this. We have to be.
