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Thursday, as I drove home after class, there were two middle-aged white guys in tactical vests carrying American flags and walking through the empty campus. A parade of two with no audience, imagining themselves to be standing up to an enemy that doesnât exist.
Itâs heartbreaking to me that, in the midst of several devastating national emergencies, the energy and attention of what I assume to be otherwise good people is being syphoned off by ridiculous conspiracy theories like QAnon.
So much damage is done by diverting peopleâs desire to do good things for their community this way. Imagine how people who will put forth this sort of effort against a fictional foe might have been mobilized to do good during the pandemic if doing so had been framed as patriotic.
I mourn all that could have been done with that desire to see a better world if the Republican Party hadnât, for decades now, framed anyone who wants a more just and equitable nation as an internal enemy, all to stay in power as demographics shift against them.
