World state
I sit behind my laptop screen and watch as the world burns down around me. People are being shot in the streets and murdered for resisting corruption, for protecting each other, for existing in a world that has never played by their rules. ICE raiding homes, schools, daycares, places of worship, rounding up citizens like sheep and cattle, chaining them together, and throwing them into inhumane conditions and holding cells, which is just their neutral word for concentration camps. People are dying. A lot of people are dying, needlessly. Executed by big, powerful, egotistical agents who brag and trophy hunt immigrants and ICU nurses in the country that claims to be the dream. That claims to be the land of the free.
Sensless violence and hatred, bigotry that grows like a tumor, deep and seemingly unremovable from the brains and hearts of our world leaders, of our so-called "peace officers," blood stains the hands of every politician and world leader who fails to take action against this. We are watching a live replay of history, and no matter how many people protest, stand up for themselves and their fellow Americans, it isn't enough.
Files with pictures of children, written admittance to their own crimes, are being swept under the rug. We are being told to move on before the full files are even released. We are told to "get over" the contents of those files that are being hidden and redacted from us so that the rich and powerful don't have to pay for what they have done to women and children.
Every dystopian novel I have read is coming true or has come true in the past few months, and it feels like no matter what we do, we cannot persecute those who deserve persecution and repercussions for the heinous acts of sexual abuse, cannibalism, murder, and more that have happened on that island of horrors.
Like, what timeline are we living in that this is our reality??
I need sleep.
