This is a post that came from one of my friends, which well summarizes how I feel, too.

So, I said no politics. I just can’t help myself. If you’re more upset that people are protesting than you are upset at our spying, lying, bloated, progressively worsening joke of a government, we’re just never going to see eye to eye. I give no fucks what gets millions of Americans active, I just want Americans active and caring about the endless stream of shit our leadership has been.

From Reagan and his war on Blacks, I’m sorry, I mean drugs, for sure, to Prescott Bush trying to overthrow our government, to George Bush 1, Prescotts Son, as head of the CIA trying to get JFK to blow up buildings in the US and blame someone else to start a war, to that exact thing magically happening during George Bush 2, the grandsons presidency, from the fight against basic healthcare and education while Amazon pockets billions and pays no taxes, from the NSA spying on everything we do, to bombing American citizens without due process, to covering up for racists, rapists and pedophiles.

I am sick of my government.

And don’t even fucking bring up Corona. There’s almost no stopping her now. Because when she could be stopped and contained, our fucking government was lying to you saying it’s a hoax or just the flu. So now Corona is here. The death toll we will pay to her as Americans over the next few years, is payment that is completely due to the hubris and detachment from reality of our government.

When Trump was elected, I was happy. I thought it would be amusing for a few months, then we’d impeach his megalomaniac ass, and my hope was that we would remember, we, Americans, own those politicians, not the other way around. Sadly, the divisive propaganda that is ubiquitous in the modern age works brilliantly well, fracturing the populace into jagged and broken parts that refuse to work together.

Which brings me back to point 1.

Anything, I mean Anything, that gets this many Americans moving together, I support with every drop of blood in my body. That’s without even touching the actual systemic abuse and racism rampant in police cultures. As most know, I loathe police. From kicking [fiance] across the floor in her diapers [She had MS], to leveling m4s to my head, from illegal searches to nightly harassment, from the cop in Iowa who threatened to plant drugs to the fatfuck sheriff in Hartford who clocked someone on the interstate at 75 and then pulled me over going 35 and claimed the 75mph was me, to the one cop who leveled a gun at my four month old kitten and threatened to kill it if I didn’t “control the animal”, and on and on and on and on… and I’m a white boy with a father with military and police connections. And amazingly, not once in those situations did one of those legendary “good cops” intervene.

I cannot imagine the horrors those pieces of shit would drop on those without my privilege or protections.

So again, if you’re more upset about Americans getting together to exercise their first amendment rights, than you are at a government that is regularly violating those rights, you truly need to rethink your position. Please. I beg of you, don’t drink the koolaid, think critically and carefully.

Also, if you went from supporting “Reopen” protests, to opposed against the “BLM” protests, especially if you mention Corona as a reason why the BLM protests are bad, just do us both a favor and delete me. You’re out of my mental gymnastics league, too adept for me.