We have finally made it to the end of this series! So why did I save this one for the end? The answer is simple, just look at 2020. This year has created such hate and animosity among everyone that the videos and news stories write themselves. So 2020 is an election year. Normally this means the country watches millionaires and billionaires get on stage and discuss why the other guy sucks and what they are going to do to benefit the little person in America. We then go vote for who we think is going to make the best changes for us and then watch for 4 years as nothing changes. This year it is different. We are seeing the same rich people argue over us but the way of reacting to things has changed vastly. We have seen a dramatic spike in violence, hateful actions, unlawful behavior, and all kinds of things that most civilized people would not stand for, until 2020. I am not sure if it is because we have been locked down all year or if it is the far left pushing us into a place where they can have the most impact on our form of government.
Lets start with the biggest story in decades, Covid-19. At the beginning of the year we were made aware of this terrible pandemic coming to our shores from China. The President shut down travel from China and immediately was called xenophobic and racist. That action alone saved hundreds of thousands of lives according to Dr. Fauchi. Then we saw policies put in place in New York and other cities to put older people who had the virus back into nursing homes causing thousands of deaths, this too was blamed on Trump and the federal government even though it was the state Governors actions and policies. We began to see the breakdown of civility in stores and street corners of masker and non-maskers screaming at each other and in some cases committing acts of violence. They were doing this due to being locked away and lied to about how to best prevent people from dying. Each side having their experts and scientists to fall back on. Truth is nobody knows for sure what the best way to prevent it is. So people turn to wrath and lash out at their fellow countrymen.
Next we saw cities burned to the ground all in a call for racial justice. A video came out of George Floyd which showed a police officer kneeling on his throat while George screamed he couldn't breathe. Eventually he died and it was deemed a homicide at first. Since then a separate autopsy has been done and showed he had a large amount of fentanyl in his system, enough to kill most people, and that led to his breathing issues, not the knee on the neck. Also another video came out which showed him complaining he could not breathe while standing next to a police car long before he was taken to the ground. None the less a huge protest broke out under the banner of Black Lives Matter. These protests shortly became violent and many businesses were destroyed, many people were attacked and murdered, many cops have been seriously injured or murdered, and all the while these rioters recorded it all while celebrating and laughing about it. When did this become the normal in our country?
I believe that Wrath is the worst sin of all. It not only hurts those around you but it destroys the person themselves. It clouds your judgement and makes you do and say things you would not normally think of doing or saying. It preys 100% on your emotions. Every single act of violence done this year was instigated using an emotionally charged point of view. This year we have seen an explosion of the idea that all cops are out every day hunting down and killing black people, even though the statistics prove otherwise. We have had driven into our brains that systemic racism exists in our country and we must burn the entire system down to stop it. We have been told all white people are racist and must pay penance for the past crimes of all white people to minorities. Our children are being taught from a young age that their skin color makes them racist whether they know it or not. That their skin color is the reason they need to apologize. All of the anger and disorder we see can be directly linked to this sin.
So what can we do to stop it if it is indeed emotionally based? Learn to listen, think and then act instead of react. Wait for all the facts to come out before passing judgement on people. Go off the grid for a month and see if your world view doesn't change. Love one another and don't force apologies for things people did not do to you. Make it a point to find positivity and avoid negative people. And most of all and most important, THINK FOR YOURSELF!! If this blog, the tv, or celebrities are what you base you opinions on you are absolutely wrong. I know these times and especially this year have a lot of us on the verge of snapping but we need to be strong. Have faith and believe it will get better. The sky is always darkest before the dawn. Know we will get through all of this and if we choose to love and celebrate our diversity we will in the end build a much stronger and prosperous America.
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