Watching a Veteran's arm get broken, and social media's response...
I'm torn thinking about the supposition; the veteran showing up to protest, putting their body in (what shouldn't have been) harms way, and watching the outpouring of posts on social media. I'm putting this in the context of performative activism, (and also algorithmic induced outrage). I understand all too well the lip service that veterans receive on the regular, and quite frankly this all hits a little too close to home.
I don't know if there will be a single event, or if it will be the culmination of this regimes "flood the zone" strategy, that breaks the camel's back, to borrow a metaphor. OR If this will be just another item in the string of things that are being tested, for how far the regime can push our limits. It is this later framework, in the context of the above lip service, that troubles me.
There will be a need, a requirement, for a level of systemic change across so many domains that we as a collective society may not have the frameworks, the tools, or the leadership, to provide for. And that is a viscerally felt disparity. I know I'm not alone.