from @txmctrades on twitter, think it was worth sharing here:
I've hesitated to post this all day but I'm going to now. Will probably lose me some followers but I have things to say and I've never been one to hold my tongue. I respect the exchange of ideas and a diversity of thought.
Political violence should be widely condemned by all and it's unfortunate that we are so eager to paint outcomes as a single faction's work. We do it every time, and so quickly. However the pendulum is forever swinging. It was just three months ago that two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot at their respective homes in the same night, two of them fatally (Melissa Hortman and husband), all Democrats. Some recall the 2017 Congressional baseball game shooting targeting Republicans. Infamous and awful. 2017 was also the Charlotte car ramming incident that killed 1 and injured 35 people protesting against the Unite The Right rally, mostly progressive victims. In 2018 César Sayoc pled guilty to 65 felony counts for mailing pipe bombs to various Democrats and Trump opponents. Last year we had the horrific attempt on President Trump's life at a rally that he amazingly survived. Another Trump rally that summer had a man arrested with guns and a fake passport. These are just the first things I thought of. This is not an exhaustive list and isn't meant to encapsulate all political strife in this country, before anyone lists more tragedies. Let us not compete. I only bring these up because in my view it's important not to allow single events to deepen our partisan trenches any more than they already are. I see a lot of folks suggesting all our violence emanates from one direction but history says otherwise. It is becoming too easy to dismiss whole swaths of our countrymen as violent lunatics when most people are good and decent and law abiding. Charlie Kirk's murder is an abysmal tragedy and we should seek the ultimate justice against his perpetrator. Just as those who carry out any heinous crimes should be punished. Think we can all agree on that last bit.
Memories are short. Emotions are sky high. People are enraged, and rightfully so. But we are not tearing apart at the seams solely because of the efforts of left or right. We're tearing apart, in my eyes, because the social contract has been destroyed and people increasingly feel they've lost any agency to improve their own lives and leave their children a better world. Our communities are fraying. The classic American dream is dead, replaced by a fevered race to try to gamble thine self into wealth or risk drowning in five figure net worth hell with zero prospects and no property of your own. This is a soul crushing fact we must face as a nation. As I said earlier today, the very fabric of civil society feels as though it's being pulled apart. And whomever is tugging the threads surely benefits from seeing us divided by ideologies rather than united in any capacity.
This is not a cry for any one party, I have no partisan allegiance. I think it's all a big cabal as I've said consistently for a long time. But I hate feeling as though we're allowing the republic to be ripped apart by an unidentifiable evil. Events are in motion that cannot be easily undone, and it is heartbreaking to think that the nation my son inherits will be worse than the one I knew. We are being tested and so far we are failing. I'm not sure what we're supposed to do, but unanswerable grief and dread appear to loom over us like a cloud, dark as obsidian on a breezeless night. My soul aches.
Social media is designed to divide us. It is working.
Know that you are loved.
Goodnight. ❤️
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