Have your friends/families taken the current situation and you seriously?

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20. You would think it might get easier.

But just as peace cannot be defined solely by the absence of war, security is not defined by the mere fact that we could afford dinner and a bed to sleep in tonight. There must be the firm conviction that this will also be true tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. There must also the trust that neither we, nor our neighbors, nor the people they work for, or work for them will be stopped, harassed, carted off and mistreated by armed semi-official paramilitary sadists, with no chance of protest or redress. The fact that there had not yet been a large scale shootout between civilians and Noem’s armed thugs does not mean there never will be. That is not security enjoyed by all, and lacking that, no one can relax.