I Just Can't Anymore

I barely even have the words to write this

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We’re in a dark time here in the US.

We’ve been in a dark time for awhile, but the ICE kidnappings and murders has been it for me. I’ve hate Trump since before the first time he was elected in 2016. I always knew it would be bad. But never this bad.

We’re at dystopian level bad. And it will get worse.

Up until recently, I had some faith in the system. We live in a democracy, after all, with a Congress that should be protecting us and a freaking Constitution that states exactly what is allowed.

But what do you do when the system does nothing to protect you? What is Congress even doing? And what’s the point of the Constitution if the president won’t even follow it?

Watching videos of people being kidnapped and torn away from their families is breaking me. I watched the video of the old man being kidnapped from his own home and taken out in his underwear in subzero temperatures and thought, “How did we get here?” And the picture of that child, Liam Cornejo Ramos, haunts me. How is it ever okay to take a five year old boy away from his family?

But what I really can’t get past is the murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Two citizens doing literally nothing threatening getting shot.

So now people can just get shot by ICE for simply existing?

I don’t have the words to form my thoughts right now, but what I will say is that we are now at the point of a dystopian novel where the reader says, “You need to revolt.”

But the question is how?

I wish I had solutions. I don’t.

I don’t have any more words to articulate this. I just want this nightmare to be over.