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Overcoming Your Breaking Point
Everybody has a breaking point. Reaching it is never the end — it can and will be overcome one way or another.
This timeline is surreal.
It’s like one thing gets piled atop another and then another and then another. My perspective is United States centric, FYI.
First, the country has been gaslit by quite-probably the most corrupt, selfish, destructive administration in history. And a political party so interested in only themselves that they enable and allow the ongoing idiocy.
Then a global pandemic sweeps in — and said administration not only does NOTHING worth a damn to address it — they only prop up ideas that enrich them and theirs. Because of their utter lack of leadership, people are being ridiculous and the infection rate and the death toll continue to rise. Oh, but the economy…
THEN, because this isn’t enough, protests erupt across the nation over police brutality in the face of multiple murders by police of black people. These have made the blatant racism inherent in our over-militarized police stand out. Unarmed black and ethnically diverse protesters? Break out tear gas and rubber bullets on them. Heavily armed white protesters? They’re harmless, leave ’em be.
