Before I start in on what I'm about to talk about, I don't care if you're black or white or gay or straight

Democrat Republican left right. I don't fucking care

Those are fucking constructs that we have been shoved into

based on our identity

in order to create arguments and division and distraction from things that do not benefit us.

There's a reason that we all stand under that red, white and blue flag. It includes all of us.

We are not enemies. We are told that we are, but we aren't. Most of us have much more in common

than we don't. And yet we can't seem to come together and recognize what's actually happening.

We would rather talk about Simone Biles. We would rather talk about how she's a coward

or how she lacks bravery. But yet when we go to Starbucks, when we are told by the barista to put on a

fucking mask, you do it. Even if you don't believe it's right. Even if you don't believe it works.

You walk around with the mask around your chin. You play along because you don't want to be inconvenienced.

You're to get distracted by sports and TV and drama involving people that you will never fucking

meet. You don't see the bigger picture because you don't want to see the bigger picture

because the bigger picture is scary. Now I understand a year ago or a year and a half ago

when they were showing people falling dead in the streets. I understand that was scary.

I understand that we had a real pandemic. I understand that people got sick.

I understand that some people died that shouldn't have. I understand all of that.

But we've had pandemics in this country before. Major ones.

We never shut the country down. We never destroyed businesses. We never spent so much money

at the government level that our dollar is devaluing literally by the minute.

We've never let in hundreds of thousands of illegal people into this country.

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