What Is Causing the Riots?

I don't mean who, and I don't mean to raise the question of paid anti-whatever protestors allegedly coming in from out-of-town, nor of apparently whatever-supremacist police officers who allegedly disguise themselves to do what the real protesters wouldn't in pushing the violence forward.

Yes, that stuff is happening, and it shouldn't surprise anyone. If you haven't learned the lessons of history, nature abhors a vacuum, etc. There is no magic that will keep the USA safe for a free people if the people won't support their own freedom.

This is not a question of left versus right.

What is it to support your own freedom?

<> Is it carrying guns?

Well, sometimes, but I think that is not the most important thing. Definitely not now.

<> Is it voicing your opinions in spite of all the people who mock or threaten?

Of course. But that is also not exactly the most important thing.

<> Is it listening to people who need a listening ear?

Now there is very important thing, even though it can be hard to distinguish one needy listening ear that you can't help from another that you can. It does work out if you try.

<> Is it volunteering to help at the local library?

How about taking time off your $100+/hour job to do it?

How much do you make an hour? According to my sources, current average USA household income is $60,000 a year. That would be $5000 a month. If it meant a 40 hour workweek for a household with only one wage earner, that wage earner would be making about $30/hour.

That's not easy to live on, but more than half of the households in the US are making less than that, with all adults working. (That's what average household income means.)

If you are making more than $200,000 a year, are you willing to scrape a bit off of that to volunteer at the library, or do some other social service that nobody wants to pay for?

Are you willing to tell your boss that his plans for world domination need to take a back seat to the needs of the people around you?

If you are the boss with the plans for world domination, do you have a net worth more than USD 4,000,000 at, say, age forty? That's enough to retire comfortably. Are you willing to forego those plans for world domination -- to retire and let someone else take your place and earn a living?

Actually, if you have that much, you could move aside and let three people make average wages.

You say it's not that simple?

Steve Jobs did it for several years to bring Apple back.

Yeah, he was working, but he forewent his wages so others could also work.

Bringing the country back is not a better purpose?

I've said it elsewhere, and I'm not the first.

Protecting your freedom means giving. Not just food, not just money, not just advice on how to make more money. 

It also means giving way, and getting out of the way, so that others can have their turn, so they can earn their place.

That's how you keep the paid protesters from having no other work than paid protest.

And that's how you keep the white supremacists from feeling like white supremacy is the only thing that will protect their right to work.

Give up those plans for world domination. (World domination never works out the way you think it will, anyway.)

Move over.

Let others have a turn working.