Are you afraid?

Are you one of those Americans who hasn't had the time to keep up with news and politics cause life alone is too hard?

Do you know that something is deeply wrong but don't know how to fix it?

I'll tell you.
First let me explain what's going on.

The President? Turns out he was a criminal doing business with lots of other criminals across the world.

Lots of people thought he just needed some time to get used to the job, but he was conning everyone the whole time.
"So just impeach him? That's how you deal with bad presidents"

I know. We tried. But the GOP decided that it was more important to stay in power than admit they made a terrible mistake.

So even though there was clear evidence, they conspired to help him keep his job.
Now you might have heard that for a long time now Black people have been out in the streets demanding that the police not be allowed to hurt and kill them.

The police believe that they should be allowed to hurt and kill whoever they want because it's their job.
I know that you probably think of the police as good guys who protect everyone, but it turns out that's not really the whole story at all.

We discovered that police are concerned with protecting themselves first, then rich white people, then their stuff.

And that's a problem.
So the criminal President? He wants the cops to be on his side so that nobody will get him in trouble for being a criminal.

So he has taken their side against all those Black people demanding that the police stop hurting them.
The President knows that you like police.

He also knows that in America white people are taught to fear and resent Black people.

So he figures that you'll like him if he helps police who you also like.

He made his presidency about it.
The President is using the fact that you are probably more scared of Black people than you are of police to get you to help him get away with his crimes.

So he is creating police violence everywhere. To scare you into liking him and to hurt Black people.
While you are busy being afraid of the Black people demanding that the police stop killing and hurting them, he is stealing everything that keeps your life together.

He is stealing all of the important stuff and destroying everything he can't steal.
This is why things are so scary. The people you trust to keep things running are in chaos.

You're used to society working.

But it doesn't look like it is anymore.

It feels dangerously broken. You know something needs to be fixed. But you don't know how.
The answer is simple.

Realize that the Black people in the streets are fighting for themselves and their safety, but that what they are fighting against is also the thing causing chaos in YOUR life.

And realize that as much as you never thought, that their fight is yours.
You may not have money.
You may not have time.
You may not know politics.

So your job is to work inside yourself.

Grapple with the truth above. And when you get it, help one other person to get it.

Do that work.

Others are fighting in the ways you can't.
You may feel scared and alone.

You aren't alone.

We the People have each other.

We have spent so much time battling each other that we have not noticed everything falling apart around us.

If we change that. We can make things better.

If. And only if.
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