We're really swimming in it now.

[yardwork]

7. Very good OP. This is about race, class, violence, fear, and misinformation.

The misinformation is spread by for-profit entertainment that we have in the U.S. now in place in journalism. Rupert Murdoch's empire is behind a lot of that, and so is Clear Channel radio, which broadcasts Rush Limbaugh and a bunch of even more hateful crap as part of the Republican strategy. It's all fear, fear, fear 24/7.

I have a distant family member who listens to hate radio all the time. Another relative tells me that he's gone completely around the bend. He believes that we are on the edge of a race war. He's stockpiling weapons. He believes every hateful extreme right-wing thing we've ever heard and probably some we've been lucky enough never to hear. I am not in contact with this relative (by choice). I haven't spoken to him in years and don't plan to, but I have no doubt that he is convinced that George Zimmerman is a hero.

The war on drugs keeps a vast number of young black people locked up in prisons and provides convenient "evidence" of the need to fear black people. Meanwhile, truly violent individuals like George Zimmerman get charges dropped again and again.

People will say, "Well, George Zimmerman is Hispanic, so it proves that this is not about race." Those people don't know anything about Florida. It's hard to know where to begin to explain.

Our country has gone insane. The top 1% control all the wealth and power. The rest of us are fighting over scraps. We can't even agree to give one another access to health care. Greed is destroying the country.