<A Thread on Our Current State of Affairs>

We used to one community everywhere. All of us. I actually hoped we'd spread that to the world.

But the poltical parties' unending quest to take and keep power, especially the GOP, have destroyed our sense of community.
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Where are all the mini democracies we used to depend on daily? Our PTAs, our unions, our (yes) community organizations, our heavily attended town hall meetings?

We no longer listen to each other and instead scream at each other from afar, then wonder how we got here.
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For millennia the only thing that has enabled the tasty pink packages that our bodies truly are to survive has been numbers against predators and bad humans. We're inherently social beings for a reason...
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...yet we seem to have forgotten that and I'm pretty sure that if we don't find that sense of community again we're gonna kill each other off, by hook or by crook.
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And every time I come here to Twitter I'm constantly reminded how cruel we are and how much we enjoy watching the train wreck from afar, as long as the bodies being tossed around like paper aren't people we know.

It's a damn mass scale tragedy, and we're all taking part.
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When I see people "LOLing" at trump supporters maskless at a rally, then hoping they'll die, it hurts me inside that we've become so callous and indifferent to the suffering of others.

We hate that trump dehumanizes people then we do the same.
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Personally, as someone who found out what community is in the US miltary I find this state of affairs just sickening, and I know I'm not the only vet, or citizen, who thinks so.

All of us need to take a step back and find a little empathy again or this nation is kaput.
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Because one day this trump/GOP experience is gonna be over and if all we can do is hate one another instead of pick up the pieces and fix what's REALLY wrong then there's no hope for our future, or our children's.

#EPluribusUnum
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