They Taught You to Be Afraid

This didn’t start yesterday.

It didn’t start with one raid, one protest, one election cycle.

It’s been decades of slow poison.

Drip.
Drip.
Drip.

They told you the world is dangerous.
They told you your neighbor might be the problem.
They told you safety comes from more surveillance, more police, more cages, more boots.

They wrapped violence in the word order.
They turned fear into a civic virtue.

State violence isn’t just the raid on camera.

It’s the rehearsal before the raid.
It’s the language.
It’s the headline rewrite.
It’s the way “undocumented” becomes “illegal.”
The way “protest” becomes “riot.”
The way “organize” becomes “threat.”

You don’t need a secret cabal when you have a culture trained to flinch on command.

Train people long enough and they’ll defend the hand on their own throat because it promises stability.

The Real Trick

Convince them liberation is chaos.
Convince them solidarity is dangerous.
Convince them someone else’s freedom costs them safety.

So they cling to the cage.

Not because they love it.
Because they’ve been taught to fear the open door.

Solidarity

Solidarity says: your neighbor is not the enemy.
Solidarity says: safety built on suffering is rot.
Solidarity says: we do not get free by policing each other.

Liberation is not the threat.
The threat is the story that tells you you’re safer alone.

They want you isolated. Suspicious. Defensive. Scared.

Because scared people are easy to steer.

Solidarity isn’t soft.
It’s sabotage against fear.