It's been a slow one for me and I'm OK with that. I managed to get all the dishes either done or in the dishwasher and wipe down the counters, I took out garbage but most of the morning has been spent on the phone.
It is such a pleasure to talk with people who are like-minded and yes, I'm talking politics. I've said before that I'm not as far to one side as some might think. I'm practical. I think things through.
For me, it's the blind submission and belief without proof of anything.
It does get to me.
Instilling fear in the uneducated...makes them rabid.
It's on both sides.
I see it more on one side obviously but I don't want to get to far into all that.
I have really been faced with a self-reckoning, ya know?
I see hypocrisy on both sides too. And I am a part of that. Because how can I condemn one action but praise another similar one simply because it happened on "my side" of things.
Who am I?
Civilized society is not a thing. It doesn't exist.
And I'm coming to a place where I just...I know my beliefs and I refused to be swayed by either side. I don't want to walk around in fear and hatred. So I'm gonna take care of me and I did look up a bunch of protests, gatherings, etc. and I'm going to try and take part in the ones that closest represent my beliefs.
I will post whatever I want to on Facebook, I think the time for hiding is not here yet so I want to use my voice in any way I can and I realize that I won't change anyone's mind, it's not about that anymore, it's about owning my values.
I had two people delete me last night and honestly, it's a relief. There are about 5 more left and I mean...as long as they don't bring their hatred and rhetoric over to my page, they can stay or go. I don't do it to them when they post the most vile things.
Why do I keep them on my page? That one is a bit tricky. And I think it's what many of us on both sides are trying to walk through; how can someone so nice believe these things? My beliefs are NO stronger than the beliefs of those opposed. They truly believe what they believe and I don't understand that. I have opinions about it. But then...they're nice in person. I know they feel that way about me too. I get it.
What I wish, and what will never happen, is a coming together on both sides, a meet me in the middle kind of thing that would utterly destroy what the current leadership is trying to do here.
This is nothing new. It's been done before. There is a recipe for what's being done and it's being followed to a T, but with some new ingredients thrown in and...I'm not OK with that.
I really, really hope that if this current leadership burns itself out somehow or ruins too many things, and is ousted in one way or another, that we do not return to the status quo.
I don't trust any politician. There are things that have needed to change and the fact that they didn't, brought us to where we are now. This was not all driven by Trump or Musk. This is something that has been in the making for a long, long time.
So things will need to change.
But not the way they are currently changing.
And I just hope this doesn't come to worst case scenario. I suppose part of me is still naive for hoping that, for hoping that humanity will step up, will get themselves together and look at every side of the coin and see it for what it is.
Yes. That's probably naive.
Put on your seatbelts.
Every day for me, is this struggle not to give in to hate, not to want to burn shit up and tear it down. Every day for me, is trying to let go of the hate and just take action where I can. Boy, fear and feeling helpless is a hard thing, and it is absolutely true that it breeds hate and violence.
As a race, a whole race, not breaking it down, humans kind of suck.
But I am trying not to suck and others I know, are trying not to suck.
Just keep going, just keep swimming, just keep trying.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. And that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
That's all I've got.
Be Blessed.
Love & Light,
Neecie
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