Another Saturday, another act of hate that lands my hometown in the news again. This time? Instead of an anonymous letter delivered out of hate and prejudice...its a senseless act of vandalism. When I was driving around with my boys this morning I found myself at a stop sign right in front of a house where the white fence had "TRUMP 2020" and "POLICE LIVES MATTER" spray painted on their fence. I immediately assumed...oh shit, is this the person who wrote the letter? When I texted my friend she told me "That is happening all over the place now. Its not the homeowners its someone else. Just this morning we found Trump 2020 with a bunch of swastikas spray painted on a neighbors fence." I remember going home with my sons and feeling both angry and damn near nihilistic. Later on, when my wife sent me out to get lunch for all of us before we went to the zoo I found the above picture spray painted on a building. While I certainly believe this to be a glorified trolling of the polarizing nature of 2020 at the hands of a punk ass kid...the fact that I read his name the way anyone would react seeing a swastika just fucked me up. Never in my life did I think that a president could be so polarizing (and get off on it) that just seeing his name was equal to seeing a swastika. That he is being associated, rather...his volatile and divisive nature is being glorified by white supremacists and subsequently linked to law enforcement is fucking sick. I then read about what is happening in Portland with the protesters and think...this is how a Holocaust happens. For those of you reading this and thinking I am being hyperbolic and that none of claims have any merit? Walk around your community and see the polarizing nature of this coming election and the ugliness (on both sides that is coming out). Just a few towns away a retired veteran hangs these giant banners for Trump and they are constantly being vandalized. Look, I don't agree with who the person is supporting but you are giving these people ammunition. By vandalizing private homes and businesses with their hate rhetoric they can literally turn around and say well...you fuckers fired the first shot. I hate to say it, but ripping down a PRO Trump sign? As tempting as it is. DON'T. You are only encouraging them to do the same, and when they bring the hate? It is fucking scary to see. I am not saying to complacently allow hate to manifest in your neighborhood, but what I am saying is fight back in a way that they can't possibly fathom. Don't tear down their right to free speech, and don't vandalize their businesses or homes. Fucking speak up, find a forum ANY forum within your legal right to speak your truth and say that this man....this fucking man has become a symbol that is the antithesis of what America stands for. People are weaponizing their political parties, and their president and that is downright fucking scary. Trump has brought out the worst in so many of us on both ends of the spectrum. I drove past a pop up Trump store where they proudly hung the BLUE LIVES MATTER sign in their window. Law enforcement, Trump is fucking using you as leverage. He is literally using that flag as a reminder to the people in this country who revile him that...if you're not with him, you're against him and I have my blueshirts to protect me. Jesus Christ, fucking DO SOMETHING. Good officers of the world, distance yourself, remind people why you became cops and why you wanted to serve the public or what he tells the public? That is YOUR narrative now. Trump doesn't give a fuck about you anymore than the people who voted for and are vandalizing for him. Its a fucking game to him. Ladies and gentleman, if you TRULY love this country (as you claim), support our troops (as you claim) support your communities (as you claim) and are fighting for family values (bullshit, but so you claim) stop perpetuating divisive hatred and before it is too late...stop fucking perpetuating this fascism. You keep using Hitler, Communism, and Fascists to describe people wearing masks to protect themselves and their communities during a pandemic...and yet, you blindly go along with every god damn manifesto this man can cobble together. Who are the real sheep? Those who are trying to aid in the survival of our country? Or those who are blindly goading a man to burn it all to the fucking ground? This was what I eventually came back to...the homeowners scrubbing off their property from someone's bullshit demonstration of defiance to those who oppose their party, their politics, their hate, or their ability to troll without consequence. And below this was something I wrote in 2017 and published in 2018.
Mein Drumpf Xenophobic minds are now legally protected by patriotic iron curtains built by the leader we elected There's freedom to persevere archaic fascist paradigms that turned into brown shirt fashion runways and justifiable hate crimes Urban concentration camps outside of Hollywood D.C. citizens at the mercy of opulence wealth now dictates equality Sieg hail to the chief and this Wal-Mart congress the white supremacists belief that one Holocaust wasn't enough I remember reading this to a friend who said "I think that's a little too ahead of itself" I am not saying that I am the suburban Nostradamus or anything...but fuck, I had a feeling when I wrote it and here we are. Ladies and gentleman believe it or not...2020 is a bigger year than you think because if you're not angry? Then you aren't paying any fucking attention.
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