Political Memes

Required reading for anyone choosing to engage with freshly wavering MAGA types:

I can see you are regretful. It's good that you are. There's a lot to regret. We are deeply sick as a culture.

The diagnosis is supremacy—an abusive human spirit that seeks and causes genocide and slavery. We are all infected with it, but we haven’t all been harmed in the same way, or to the same degree.

Some among us have been grieving the world they inherited, the theft of what is theirs—but we have not been robbed in the same way.

We are grieving the harm caused by the inheritance that we chose.

Now you have been abused by this culture of abuse we inherited and chose, and that has brought you to the edge of awareness. I'm there at the edge of awareness as well, maybe just a little closer. I've been there for a short time; only a decade or so.

This isn’t always going to be easy, and it’s going to cost us. We inherited a societal sickness that infected us but made others sick. To heal ourselves, we must first seek to heal not ourselves but others.

You have likely been abused in your life, and that is not your fault. And yet what is being done to you is being done first and worst to others, as an automatic function of our society. We inherited that, and we bear responsibility for that. And you have aligned yourself with that for long years, and there is responsibility there, too—a responsibility and a cost. You will not be welcomed by everyone. You won’t be forgiven by everyone. You won’t even be liked by everyone. If you are doing this to maintain your influence, or become the hero, or to gain cheap forgiveness, or to avoid the cost of awareness and conviction and blame, then you won’t last on this healing path.

Healing will involve many pains and many costs, and it will require radical transformation of our beliefs and our lives.

But healing is what we need.

And healing is its own reward. Don't look for any other.

https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told/