I'm just gonna...make a solid point about America right now in my depression. And then I'm leaving the politics section for a long while, because I don't even rationally feel motivated to vote this election at this rate.
Let me first say it loud for the people in the back: DONALD TRUMP IS A PIECE OF SHIT. He does inflame people, he is a bully at the least, and he is an idiot. I did not vote for Trump. After reading of his "grab'em by the pussy", or his support for stop-and-frisk, I really did not feel morally sound voting for him. Not that I felt exactly morally sound voting for a corrupt Clinton either. I would be happy to have a woman president, but not her. I was originally going to vote for a moderate independent who was a former war veteran, who believed in keep social security and etc. but was quite conservative on matters of border control and etc. But here we are.
But for all those who say the "revolution is coming", you've missed a really glaring issue...
Trump is the beginning of the fight. The "silent majority" arose and voted for him in areas because they are SICK of this toxic internet and social media agenda culture we live in. Even if they DISAGREE with almost EVERYTHING Trump says, they despised the thought of another 4 years of policy built around big city opinions. They're tired of being cancelled, or called something-phobic for even slightly fucking disagreeing with you. Leftists online, and I see righties do it too, act like a bunch of fucking echo chamber children who cannot handle an opposite opinion. The fact so many people are forced to swallow how "ashamed" they should be of themselves, or how you should literally hate the country when if you said a bunch of the shit you're saying about America in ANOTHER country they'd likely arrest or kill you, you piss people off. You don't create conversations, you do not open doors. Many of Trump's supporters are ANGRY because he now said he'd REACT to the censorship, the riots, etc. and he has done NOTHING he said he would. He promised order, and free speech would come back. He hasn't done jack shit on that note.
I cannot go anywhere and have a slightly differing opinion from progressive, near socialist left. I am a moderate who feels uncomfortable voting for Biden or Trump. Don't you dare play a moral card on me and say Biden is still better than Trump. He too is a corrupt piece of shit and there's plenty of things out there to show it.
We need a party reform, because neither political party cares about the people anymore. They care about the lobbyist filling their pocketbooks. They care too much about a 2% at the best people bitching on twitter. When did 2% of people decide whether you were cancelled or not? It isn't a system reform. I'm sure it'd help, but do you really think socialism or communism or any of these political moves will actually be free of the problem capitalism has? Greed has existed as a terrible vice for thousands of years and it isn't going to stop there. I do not want to be told again that my religion is hate speech, that I'm automatically a bigot, misogynistic, homophobe for being one. I'm tired of being called xenophobic if I am worried about the country bringing in refugees that Syria admits ISIS hides in, without good vetting procedures. I'm tired of being considered "privileged" just because I'm not of color.
You know why so many rights hate the left? Why so many lefts hate the right? Why blacks hate whites and whites hate blacks? And it just continues? BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL FIGHTING WITH HATE. How do you STOP HATE by being hateful? By spreading more hate? How do you unite people by DIVIDING THEM WORSE? How can I be an ally when to be an ally I have to lynch myself and be ashamed as if I actively voted that blacks should die by police?
Obviously, the issue happening here, extends BEYOND George Floyd. It extends beyond so many matters and into deep rooted division in America, that began with the Bush administration, Obama was tone-deaf at best, and now Trump has just rekindled every flame possible. But you know what? I LOVE AMERICA. I LOVE AMERICA BECAUSE I HAVE FREE SPEECH TO SAY HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALL OF THIS. I HAVE FREEDOM TO THINK, TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING I BELIEVE IN. WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO GO OUT THERE, PROTEST, AND TRY TO WORK ON THE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA. I do not want communism, I do not want anarchy, I do not want some system which hinders the freedoms we are given. I am a woman, I can vote, I can work hard now and get a job and I don't have to be just some homemaker, but I can be if I want to. THIS IS THE GREAT AMERICA. We aren't perfect by any stretch but find me a country that is. We are brainwashed by a social media culture where misery loves misery.
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Not only that, we have young kids, who are practically raised by their phones and have this constantly put in their faces. They constantly have to be "woke". More suicides with youth involved happen from social media bullying and somehow they don't censor any of that fucking shit but they'll bitch about trump since they get publicity and woke points from that. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE GOOD OR CARE ABOUT YOU ANYWAY. I've watched my older brother turn to facebook and become basically addicted to it, constantly going there to seek validation or won't make plans until he can get with friends. He used to be super independent and just go do stuff with or without people. I spent my teen years wrapped in the pure negatives of social media, and being practically addicted to it, and more and more I'm wishing someone would just break twitter, smash instagram, and turn them off for 30 days. WHAT WOULD THESE PEOPLE DO? WHERE WOULD THEY GET THEIR OPINIONS? THEY COULDN'T CANCEL SOMEONE FOR DISAGREEING WITH THEM OMG.
So loot and destroy the freedoms we worked for. See historically though, most major revolutions allows for terrible authoritarians like Hitler or Napoleon to take over, and start an even BIGGER fucking war. Instead of protesting in the streets, educate yourself, find someone you think stands for America, and WRITE THEM IN. We ALL have the ability, and we all have the social responsibility to actually think outside the box when voting at this rate. IF YOU WANT CHANGE, ACTUALLY MAKE THE CHANGE. Voting for Joe Biden ISN'T the change. Neither is Trump. We need someone who can reach both aisles and reunite this broken country before there's nothing left. Why do you want this country you live in to burn to ashes? All I see is two communists countries in Russia and China that'd love to take us over during a terrible disarray. Think of THEIR human rights violations. America is light mayo compared to that shit. But we are so GREAT because we actually have a VOICE and BRAINS we can use. You cannot trust the mainstream media, or even local news at this rate, to be honest. As long as you aren't on the conservative side to them you get a pat. It is hard not to consider THAT propaganda, as much as I'd call Fox News "right" propaganda. It is ALL propaganda, not just the shit you disagree with.
All the discourses here remind me why I usually avoid political discussions of most kinds, because all people can really do is agree to disagree on most things. Instead of being hateful, consider changing your vision to what America could be. I stand behind those peacefully protesting because, I want to see a UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I want to see not disarray or "don't be Trump", I want to see the loving country that can come together. The country that for years was a land of dreams and people working hard to accomplish the hopes of that dream. The American dream is still real... But we need jobs back in America. We need less mechanization that is taking jobs from people. We need imaginations and innovators to come out and create, or build upon things we have. We need the freedom to think, speak, exist again even if it isn't in the extremist echo chamber. Most people are center something. Few are actually extremely left or right. If you think that is the majority you're really kidding yourself or either end. We'll always have extreme liberals and extreme righties, or even outright anarchists or south rising idiots (which my mother calls rednecks and they're as scary as antifa-like organizations if you wanna get into that issue too). What I see out there now are not just protestors of a terrible event that SHOULD be getting acknowledge, SHOULD be getting recognized as a wrong which occurred in our society and as many bad events do create a law protecting (like Amber alert named after a kidnapped child), they are people who want to see America burn, and make it into something else. They either want anarchy, or complete control. I don't want either one to win. I want to continue to live here where it is okay if we agree to disagree, where it is okay if I believe in God and you don't, where we can have these melting pots of opinions and coexist. But I also want a change in our system, where these people are held accountable, where no person of color is afraid of being pulled over, where the ability to enter America and experience our freedoms is accessible legally. Where we can experience unity and love, not just hate, and looking for things to destroy because we are in fact spreading our misery to other people. It is so easy to find something to gripe about. I encourage some of you to try and extend a hand kindly, rather than inflaming and name calling. If America is going to heal, we have to start where we began to divide the lines: with us.
Do not become hateful, like the hateful people which cause so much of the pain. It never works. I can assure you, it never has. Racism, this sort of thing, is sadly something raised at home. No one is born thinking that way, and we have to actively confront our biases and prejudices. I see so few people wanting to actually look inward to see if maybe they're an issue, they are raising something worse. I grew up hearing how bad islamics were and that islam is the enemy. I wasn't sure. I know the radicals were definitely not looking good, but I also began to look objectively and see how ISIS literally killed muslims who were not their style. I met two refugees. I heard one of them as they told me of their brother literally being blown up at his graduation. My heart shuddered and broke.
Spread love and empathy.
Pff I don't believe it, next you're going to tell me that they're heavily financed by private groups disguising as NGOs standing to gain hundreds of billions, power & influence from the current pandemic.
