When you corner an animal, villainize, demonize, and antagonize them for the last half decade, then you put tons of social pressure on them, threaten to deprive them of the their rights, their ability to find a job, and call them every label under the sun, and then, once they have exhausted every means to find justice and retribution through official channels, which have stonewalled them, rejected them outright and operated against them with extreme prejudice, it is no wonder that those people will eventually explode.
There's enough rot within the swamps of Washington that it can be smelled across the country, yet we put up for it because we've been shouted at by a tainted media that one side is unjustifiably evil. It was only a matter of time that a Caesar would arise to cross the Rubicon if the people's will would not be heard. It is that fear that causes dictators to rise to power, and that fear which causes the senate to stab the so-called villain in the back, only for more thirsting and hungry figures to arise in the seeking of power. We all wish to restore the republic and the constitution, but both sides fear the other is the one who is violating it, and so must take more extreme actions to make sure they are heard. In such times of corruption, polarization, division, and the fracturing of shared truths and values, that it is inevitable that principled men and women will come to blows.
There's been a pressure valve building in America, if not the world, for the last few decades as we've pitted the left and the right against each other over trivial issues of little consequence, yet when someone calls out the machine at work, they are lambasted with everything that can be thrown at them.
Above all, I wish for peace, but only if peace will bring it liberty and justice. I wish for peace, but only if that peace enshrines the US's autonomy. I wish for peace, but only if that peace means that our constitutional rights are not violated by neither a corrupt government, a slanderous media, or a big tech industry that has grown into an uncontrollable behemoth.
It was the founding fathers who revolted against the British almost 250 years ago. They tried repeatedly through Olive Branch Treaties, legal processes, and protests to get what they wanted, and when peace could not be broached with the King nor Parliament, the framers fought a war for independence. I fear that if the needs of the people are not placated and if such a large majority of America has created a division by which they cannot tolerate the other side, then we have come to the point at which we will begin to mimic the movements of our forefathers, for good or for ill. And, if by some chance we do end up breaking into civil war, I can only imagine that the US will never be the same to how it once was, and whether that means the system is gutted of its corruption to start a new, or if the foul stink in Washington continued and the constitution becomes naught but scrap from a forgone era.
I do not advocate for violence, and I wish for peace, but those who have knowledge of history means that the future echoes the past, and the past has only spelt ruin and revolution on our once fair country. I pray I am wrong.
