Let me preface my comments by saying that I know that no one is listening to me. I write under a pseudonym, because the Human Resources department at my job told me - years ago - that all the good writers had to hide behind a different name in order to protect their jobs and benefits.
If I knew how to change this blog to my own name, I'd do it, but I'm old as hell and I can't figure it out.
So ... no one is listening. Got it.
What the fuck is happening in this country? Am I wrong to root for anarchy? Am I wrong to root for the protesters? Am I wrong to defend the police? (Yes, yes, and yes.)
Anarchy is not productive. A small, vocal minority of the protesters are assholes, and the police forces throughout the country are not doing a great job of protecting law and order when they shoot tear gas and projectiles at people who are exercising their 1st Amendment right to PEACEFUL protest.
A new ordinance was recently passed in the state in which I live, which is an "anti-hate" rule. Such total bullshit. An ordinance is NOT a law, and the way the ordinance is phrased is almost entirely unenforceable. It helps no one.
Let's just speculate that Trump wins the next election. (We're fucked, as a democracy.)
Let's just speculate that Biden wins the next election. (We just hit pause for the next four years, until god-knows-what happens after.)
We are not doing well.
COVID took attention away from the dictator in charge. Then murder-by-cop took attention away from COVID. NO ONE IS WINNING.
My new theory is that literally NO ONE in charge of anything knows what the hell is going on.
I had a "work meeting" (Zoom) the other day, in which nothing of importance happened, but for which I got paid. I genuinely feel bad for earning money that way. I am lucky that I don't own a restaurant or a bar or am a nurse or whatever. And I sure as hell wouldn't want to be a police officer right now, even though so many of them are literally trying their best to protect and serve.
Prayer, religion, and hope are irrelevant right now. America (WE) needs to get it together before we all go six feet under.
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