Did the people who were suppose to convince me otherwise not become literate through schooling or something? Did they die of COVID? Get got by a Palestinian practicing self defense? Were they at a wedding in the middle east? Are they unhoused and disenfranchised somewhere? Did a cop extra-judiciously kill them because they were scary? Did they get into a car accident? Did they have to sell their microphone to afford medical bills?

Because I haven’t met them, shit looks awful, and communism explains what’s going on pretty well for my purposes.