You think it’s politics as you sit in white suburbia and pretend there is no privilege. But while you paid to get your kids out of trouble my kids can’t afford the high falutin lawyer -- they won’t get community service or an expungement. They will become part of the system that never worked for them.

You think it’s politics as you claim “blue lives matter” and pretend you respect law enforcement. But it was your friends who harassed the cops every night to the point that they came to your house and told your mom that if your brother didn’t turn himself in they wouldn’t be responsible for what happened next. Could you imagine George Floyd getting this courtesy?

You think it’s politics as you profess there were “fine people on both sides.” But Nazis are not fine people and marching through a town with torches to protect the statue of a traitor . . . seriously! No participation trophies for the five year old soccer players but a participation monument to the losers of a civil war to protect the right to own another person. And then you claim the party of Lincoln. The people you protect killed Lincoln and now they killed the party of Lincoln.

We’re no longer two sides of the same coin. No longer is our de facto motto “E Pluribus Unum” -- From many, one. We are enemies in a perpetual civil war -- one side fighting for progress, liberty, and democracy; the other side fighting to “own a lib.”