2020 has been a shitshow.
I’m rapidly running out of news sources I can bear to read. Events occurring are unbelievable.
The US is on fire. Literally and figuratively, as people’s rage finally outweighs their fear and what little respect was left, and they rise up. In another time there might’ve been people in power willing to take the long road to reconciliation, even if it was only hollow words meant to calm the beast and lead it back to it’s cage.
Not at this point. The violence increases, and the people become more angry, not less. This is a game of one-upmanship which can only ever end badly. The people are getting bloodied, and that is causing more people to finally stop ignoring what a section of the population has had to endure for the whole history of the country.
The coronavirus is still out there, still mutating, still a real and present danger. The people out there trying to get someone, anyone to change the way things are — they’re at greater risk now than ever before. First from this virus which thrives in crowds and contact, and second from the very real weaponry arrayed against them.
I can’t bear to watch. I can’t look away. It’s heartbreaking.