[Fredkc]

What you cannot forgive, you get to live again.

Self defense is not violence.

What "they" have caused is also what we have allowed them to. They know it. This is why they're getting insistent, and soon violent. It's their position which has become tenuous. To explain, I think they've built a "trap" they really can't afford to spring.

It also means there is less reason to fear them, really. Most of that goes away with the knowledge we "let them", and we don't have to anymore.

I will admit at this point, I am still wondering what to do with the fear that "no one else will wake to that".

But...
Gear yourself up for a fight, and you'll probably have one.
Gear yourself up to do something else, and you've built an alternative.