Our society of enablers is a great descriptor- passive, pathetic, using the language of a person who has been abused but has not come to grips with it or begun the process of healing, Stockholm Syndrome, whatever you want to call it. I get tired of people who get caught up in the language we use to express ourselves rather than the big picture we’ve identified. It turns my stomach multiple times each day. WTFU people! This is not okay, not one bit of it. In the old frog in the boiling water metaphor….the water is at a rolling boil! Mostly my disgust is with people who are too busy living their consumer goods-addicted lives to pay attention to what is happening.
You are correct. Evil is evil, and the t rump followers are. That’s why they follow him, so they can live their evil intentions. The word I try to avoid is “hate”. I like the Dylan line, “Hate only Hate.”
You are correct. They are also hateful as only a hateful person wants revenge. All of these things have been normalized by t rump. But some of these MAGA are getting a rude awakening who their immigrant spouse or family member has been violently abducted and taken to God knows where. Now they are saying "but I did not vote foe this1" Uhh yes you did
You are 💯% right, calling out these evil horrors masquerading as humans. And there are many like minded individuals who think the same. Together we will end this tyranny, one way or another.
100% call it as you see it. I was taught to use my words from a young age. If you are silent, then the wrong continues. You must speak truth to power and be the power through your words to improve life and make someone’s small part just a little bit better. There is also a bonus, it makes your life just a little bit better.
Carl Sagan described the scenario we’re experiencing:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
I am with you 100%. I have been calling them evil because their souless, heartless policies and treatment of those they perceive as the other is vile.
So many otherwise decent people normalize evil because of their refusal to call it what it is
Our society of enablers is a great descriptor- passive, pathetic, using the language of a person who has been abused but has not come to grips with it or begun the process of healing, Stockholm Syndrome, whatever you want to call it. I get tired of people who get caught up in the language we use to express ourselves rather than the big picture we’ve identified. It turns my stomach multiple times each day. WTFU people! This is not okay, not one bit of it. In the old frog in the boiling water metaphor….the water is at a rolling boil! Mostly my disgust is with people who are too busy living their consumer goods-addicted lives to pay attention to what is happening.
I agree. Yes, there is a collective delusion upon us all. The water is getting hot.
You are correct. Evil is evil, and the t rump followers are. That’s why they follow him, so they can live their evil intentions. The word I try to avoid is “hate”. I like the Dylan line, “Hate only Hate.”
You are correct. They are also hateful as only a hateful person wants revenge. All of these things have been normalized by t rump. But some of these MAGA are getting a rude awakening who their immigrant spouse or family member has been violently abducted and taken to God knows where. Now they are saying "but I did not vote foe this1" Uhh yes you did
They are worse than evil, they are malignant.
You are 💯% right, calling out these evil horrors masquerading as humans. And there are many like minded individuals who think the same. Together we will end this tyranny, one way or another.
I wrote this yesterday, Walter. I think it's appropriate.
Evil
is the movement of pain
from one place to another.
Evil needs a source, like a river of fire
rising from Hell. Evil
dwells in the Land of Intentions,
where power is seldom shared.
Who makes the pain?
How does suffering dive off the board
of some person’s mind
and land
in a pool of fear in someone else’s?
Should I be surprised to find evil
right here, inside myself? Hardly. I know what evil I carry.
I know it well. I won’t surrender any more
to the cruel aspect of my mind. I can think in polarities,
evil is “this”, good is “that”. I get exhausted with polarities.
Can Evil simply Be? Is there no countervailing impulse, no good deeds to excuse the causing of pain? Consider the world
before trying to answer this question.
The goal of evil is undeserved suffering. That suffering
is everywhere. The ones who cause it
are also everywhere.
I comment "Trump is EV IL" on as many articles or videos about him as I can find.
the eponymous "right" is not.
Howlin' Wolf: "That's evil/E-VILLL is going on.../I am warning you, brothers/you better watch your happy home..."
100% call it as you see it. I was taught to use my words from a young age. If you are silent, then the wrong continues. You must speak truth to power and be the power through your words to improve life and make someone’s small part just a little bit better. There is also a bonus, it makes your life just a little bit better.
Carl Sagan described the scenario we’re experiencing:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark