Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I think to have been super heavy recently, if you have

been paying attention at all, you know that we have likely in our nation reached some

kind of breaking point. I know that might sound hyperbolic and I really wish it were.

I actually hope that it is. I hope that I'm wrong. I hope that things can swing back and

that we as a people learn to love Liberty again. There are days when I see the possibility

of that and then there are days when I don't see any possibility of that whatsoever. I

went to dinner last night with a friend, a friend who shares my same views, but is it

political? She's not consuming the news all day. She works in non-political job with

non-political but you know, left leaning people. And we talked about this heaviness that we both

feel, just the sense of sadness, that things are never going to be the same again, that the

America that we grew up in will never go back, that the America that our children are going to grow

up in, it just won't be the same as the one that we once knew. And it was really hard to hear her

talk about this especially because I would like to chalk up my feeling, my feelings of sadness and

just like hopelessness about the state of the country to me having this job, like having to consume

so much news and talk about it. But if people outside of my line of work feel this way too, if you

guys feel this way too, that means that it's real. Now, not everyone feels this way, not all of

your friends are going to feel this way. I would say especially people on the other side of the

aisle or maybe they feel this way, but for different reasons. There are people who still think of all

of the government restrictions for the virus as something that is really for our good, that

vaccine passports are amazing innovations and mandates are beautiful manifestations of public

health policy. You think the DHS openly calling those who question COVID restrictions a

terror threat to the country, that that's right on target, that one day the politicians will allow

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