After my Al Anon meeting on Saturday I was talking to a guy who had come to our group for the first time who had moved up from Florida to get away from the horrific drug ecosystem there that was killing his daughter, who was a fentanyl addict but was in some sort of residential facility here in NC now. He said he thought Florida was the epicenter of it all: "There are rows and rows of drug motels, they deal openly in restaurants, a dealer threatened me with a gun when I told to him to keep him away from my daughter. When I told some cops about it, one of them suggested I should get a gun and shoot some of the dealers, 'Just do it in the right way so we don't have to arrest you.' He was a deputy sheriff."
At the Bike Loud! ride a couple of weekends ago I was riding with a neighbor I had invited to the event, a woman who doesn't ride much. We were passed by a decent-sized group of stronger riders who were riding a longer ride. Then we were passed by a truck. About half a mile up the road, I could see that the bikers were enveloped in smoke after the truck had clearly been coal rolled.
Then of course there's the Trump video showing him putting on a crown, flying a plane and taking a big crap on the No Kings protesters, which should not have surprised us but somehow did. After all, this is the same guy who would tweet about people (Fiona Hill, etc) while they were testifying before Congress.
What he has done is created a situation where violent vigilantism -- up to and including murder -- is pretty much encouraged.
When they go this low it is hard to keep going high, but somehow we must.
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