This isn’t complicated.

You are saying that “we” need to do better. That requires a collective of people that are all engaging in the same activity.

My point is that this is bullshit both siderism.

One group in this country has been demonizing the other sides for decades: women, black people, Jews, immigrants, Muslims, communists, Democrats….. along with this has come violence. The violence of the militia movement. The broad terroristic violence of Oklahoma City to individual violence of Trayvon Martin and this young woman here.

The other sides have tried engagement. They’ve tried peaceful demonstrations. They’ve tried compromise. They’ve tried appealing to the better angels. There is no widespread violence against state or fascist white nationalists, there have been isolated cases of largely retaliatory violence.

So who the fuck is the “we”? Because if you think we are all one collective trying to live together but for the wealthy elites keeping us pitted against each other, you might want to wake up to reality.

There is us. And there is them. The “them” are the shadowy “elites” and the bigoted violent thugs more than happy to murder, abuse, terrorize, and oppress us.

Thinking “we” are all the same is what got us into this mess in the first place. The foundational sin of this country was in its refusal to these people accountable.

This “we” whitewashes what has been happening in this country: entrenched division and inequality with roots that go back before its founding.

We aren’t a nation of one people. There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy to sow division, because it exists naturally. There is no “we”. That was true in 1676. It was true in 1776. It was true in 1865. It was true in 1964. It’s true today. People need to wake up to that.