While people of good faith disagree on then issues you mention, we also know that Russia and other foreign powers have worked hard to exacerbate those differences. Just because Trump wins, does not mean that Russia will stop trying the divide Americans from each other. Solidarity is doubly important in the face of external and internal efforts to divide us.
100% agree. This is why my fallback is always 'know what your deepest values are.' Because I can wildly disagree with someone's politics but my deeper value is that their life still matters.
This is the most helpful and intelligent Substack post. I have found written before the election. Very precious.
(I said prescient and it wrote precious.)
Also fearless in considering unwanted possibilities in advance.
The high moral ground you recommend seems like something out of the new testament.
One exercise we use with the kids in Sunday school is ask them to consider what a peaceful world would look like. Then ask them how it would feel, what they would see, what they would hear.
Then ask them are there parts of this peaceful world which already exist?
Finally ask them are the things I can do now to increase the likelihood of that world?
Dick Cheney might be too much of a stretch for me…
Our military is not what it once was…
Every branch has been thousands of recruits short every year, for years.
And maga people are not going to suddenly volunteer for our military.
The only way for trump to get revenge, is to do conscription. I have no doubt that the maga didn’t think that they will be forced to quit their job and join the military in order to commit genocide on their neighbor, or their nanny, or their pastor, or their brother, or their child, etc.
Trump has already been imprisoning and killing people. No legal abortion in more 1/2 the country.
Women of child bearing age. They are dying. They are being imprisoned.
And covid, which trump unleashed, is terrible for pregnant women and their fetuses.
The media is conveniently ignoring what is happening to pregnant women.
While people of good faith disagree on then issues you mention, we also know that Russia and other foreign powers have worked hard to exacerbate those differences. Just because Trump wins, does not mean that Russia will stop trying the divide Americans from each other. Solidarity is doubly important in the face of external and internal efforts to divide us.
100% agree. This is why my fallback is always 'know what your deepest values are.' Because I can wildly disagree with someone's politics but my deeper value is that their life still matters.
This is the most helpful and intelligent Substack post. I have found written before the election. Very precious.
(I said prescient and it wrote precious.)
Also fearless in considering unwanted possibilities in advance.
The high moral ground you recommend seems like something out of the new testament.
One exercise we use with the kids in Sunday school is ask them to consider what a peaceful world would look like. Then ask them how it would feel, what they would see, what they would hear.
Then ask them are there parts of this peaceful world which already exist?
Finally ask them are the things I can do now to increase the likelihood of that world?
Thanks so much for this helpful post.
thanks Robert.
The solidarity you’re talking about is important. And it has echoes of other writings such as “First the came…” which I’m sure most people have heard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
I'd like to share this, is it available to non-subscribers?
oh yeah; there's no paywall.
Dick Cheney might be too much of a stretch for me…
Our military is not what it once was…
Every branch has been thousands of recruits short every year, for years.
And maga people are not going to suddenly volunteer for our military.
The only way for trump to get revenge, is to do conscription. I have no doubt that the maga didn’t think that they will be forced to quit their job and join the military in order to commit genocide on their neighbor, or their nanny, or their pastor, or their brother, or their child, etc.
Trump has already been imprisoning and killing people. No legal abortion in more 1/2 the country.
Women of child bearing age. They are dying. They are being imprisoned.
And covid, which trump unleashed, is terrible for pregnant women and their fetuses.
The media is conveniently ignoring what is happening to pregnant women.
Cause remember in Amerikkka, no lives matter.