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This rant hat got me thinking, and I feel like many points you make should in fact be considered more.
Thank you for taking the risk of sticking out your neck and stating this in public.
Really appreciate you reading and replying. Sometimes I just gotta rant. Usually I type up a page or two in my local editor and delete it right after, just for the relief, but I decided to actually post this time.
In our society it seems to me that we have two parallel status quos. I'm acutely aware of how criticizing either can bring down the ire of the faction it belongs to, but you know... I'm over it. If being called names and being made out as a bad person is the risk, I'm okay with that. Saying nothing (or saying only what everyone else is saying) and watching our reality dissolve is more painful. I trust that there are enough people who will see that I'm coming from a place of compassion and positive hope for the future. Either way, we should know full well that whatever we've been trying isn't working. We need a new discourse, really badly. The right is winning, not because hate is so attractive, but because they are offering a real sense of in-group belonging when the left is not.