America the Splintered

When lowering your pond, the rocks will appear.

Social distancing and isolation, loss of jobs and businesses, "police brutality," racial inequality protests, riots, political manipulation, and market unrest. How did we get to this point, within such a short period of time?

Even before the Impeachment proceedings were over, Covid-19 arrived on the shores of America. That is when the trouble first began. Instead of allowing America to come together to fight the pandemic, it chose to follow the path of destruction. Instead of looking outward and upward, choosing to focus on the positive, citizens turned inward - lashing out with selfish interests. The result was social unrest...and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

As the weeks of life with Covid-19 turned to months, leaders kept the restrictions on citizens rights. It was a powder-keg ready to explode - and it did. 

One of the first matches was unemployment. Millions of Americans could not work, and could not even leave their house but to get food. Stress could not be controlled and showed itself.

The second match was the death of George Floyd who died as a result of a cop suffocating him. Those with a racial concern (and most everyone else) were outraged at the incident. But what was an isolated event, became the rallying cry for racism and Police Brutality.

The third match was hate toward the police. With racism as its catalyst, "defunding police" became a method to restrict or correct law enforcement techniques. The Republicans had a bill ready, but the Democrats wanted more severe restrictions - neither agreed.

The fourth match was the Democratic Party's latest strategy. With President Trump on his heels from the pandemic, they took advantage by pushing for reforms more suited to the Left Wing of their party. In a schizophrenic way, the Democrats insisted on keeping business closed and homes locked down (to ensure public safety), while encouraging protests (to support racial discrimination). 

Protests led to more Covid cases; thus, allowing the call to shutdown and/or restrict people further...ultimately causing more dissension within the population (and even in the ranks of Trump's own party), helping Trump's approval to drop before the next election. 

The ignition was initiated by the Press. 

Pictures and video of cops hurting blacks, or Blacks retaliating against cops; fires being started on buildings; looters ransacking shops; chaos wherever they could find it. As chaos continues, the news is ready, willing, and happy to capture every piece of it, ensuring their ratings would stay solid.

Every step of the way, the mainstream media pushed for more and more and even more negative news...culminating with a chorus of hysteria singing "Highest cases since the pandemic began." 

Ultimately, these groups unwittingly (or wittingly) took advantage of the Pandemic to unleash their own agenda, which caused the negativity in America to flourish unabated. The poor and unemployed has had to suffer the most in this situation. And in a sick way, the rich and powerful have played the people, like an orchestra being led by a sinister conductor.

In the end, America pays the price - in lives, money, and emotion. We need to wake up and realize that we are not our own worst enemies. We are citizens of the greatest country on Earth and should behave as such. It is vital we set aside our differences. We need to come together in the greatest positive regard to help each-other, care for each-other, forgive each-other, and build one another up. We can and must, for the betterment of society and our future.