Feeling overwhelmed by everything that is happening.

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2. A lot of people are flailing - they just don't know what to do

Honestly, I think part of the problem is they've been asked to vote for "who we can get elected" one too many times, but then putting a particular party in power doesn't seem to result in any action that comes back to helping them. What is all the politicking for? What is your vote for? Why are you donating money to this and that? Why are you volunteering your time? Why is the media all lies? Why can't you get help when you need it?

There is a sense of free-floating dis-empowerment There is a sense of people pointing the finger and blaming each other for not marching, not uprising, not forcing change to happen somehow. There is a sense of disorientation - where to go to EFFECTIVELY make change because real life is so busy and exhausting, and we're tired of wasting out time. There is a sense of fear: making the wrong move could cost us our job - surveillance has a long reach, the Internet has a long memory, how will we recover to feed our family if we "make trouble" and there is no one else around to have our back?

This is the malaise.

But if you are around where the protests are happening right now, you will feel re-energized. These protests are action. These protests carry the seeds of change. These protests are hope.