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@itsnotyea
welcome to my online gratitude journaling! Yes I have a thought ideation and I psycho assimilate. snap: @ichrisyo
เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2011
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That’s what the next two years are for. Get that colllege degree yfm
Phil@fvcknPhil
i need a vacation
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We are moving on too quickly from these things.
I find that I have scarcely begun to take in the scale of the hatred before another attempt is made, and the cycle begins again.
The pace of these is astonishing.
I do not think we are sitting with them nearly long enough to understand how to fix it.
Already, less than 24 hours later, I see most people have moved onto other things.
I personally can think of nothing else.
We have grown so accustomed to these acts of political violence and evil that even the attempted murder of our president is barely a 24 hour story.
We do not mourn.
We do not pause.
We do not ask the harder question, which is how a country arrives at such a place to begin with.
But I guess I'll tell you what I think...
I believe that when you describe a man, every single day day, year after year, as the embodiment of every evil thing on planet earth...
...when you say he is a tyrant, a fascist, a r*pist, a Nazi, a war criminal, worse than Stalin and Hitler combined you are NOT merely expressing an opinion.
You are issuing an instruction.
Now... most sane people will hear this instruction and do nothing.
BUT.
There are always a few who will, as there ALWAYS has been, but they came by these convictions through the words of those whose words they listened to and believed.
Of course, they will deny it... especially if an attempt on Trump's life ever actually succeeded.
We all know they would say their words were only figurative and meant to warn people and to get out the vote or some such stupidity.
But I do not believe this, and I bet you don't either.
I'm not shocked this keeps happening, and I think that's what is most terrifying to me.
The speed at which the rest of us are almost forced to forget and move on because yet another horrible act of political violence takes place the following week.
I'm worried we have lost the capacity to be genuinely horrified.
In fact, I see it on my timeline right now, as I'm writing this.
An entire swath of the country with zero self reflection, zero remorse, zero empathy at all, looking directly into the face of evil and calling it a moral good or refusing to believe the event itself is possible.
If I'm being honest... that, more than the man with a rifle, is what terrifies me.
A man with a rifle is a problem you can actually solve.
You can catch him.
You can stop him.
You can put him in jail.
But a country full of people who watched him try and feel NOTHING AT ALL, or worse, feel CHEATED THAT HE FAILED AND SAY IT OPENLY...
I don't know how you come back from that as a country.
I'm not sure you do.
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