I realize I mix too much pride and wrath into these motives, as well as fear of what the majority of the people in the world want to do with their political power, but I try to really focus on the brute facts of what people are doing to other people in practice, and treating them as responsible for that, regardless of what they think - because people have all manner of delusions, especially about politics, but at a certain point I think you can't just disagree with people and focus on their good faith if they are actually harming innocent people based on their own misperceptions.
But then, I think a lot of the greatest harm being done politically is done by voters who vote and simply do not think whatsoever about the people they harm, or the ways in which that happen - I don't think they are aware or that they care in many cases. But I still think they're responsible.
When I read about families being torn about by ICE, I don't think that's what most Trump voters were thinking about when they voted, but I look at them and absolutely see them as guilty, in some ways more so because of the complete lack of interest or awareness. That the harm they do simply never enters their calculus makes the tragedy all the more obscene, and it cries out for someone to wake them up to what they are doing, for some stone to break through the glass houses of their insular little lives and show them the whirlwind.
Wise. Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Oscar Wilde would appreciate "The importance of being Ernest" with you in this theatre of the absurd we live in.
I realize I mix too much pride and wrath into these motives, as well as fear of what the majority of the people in the world want to do with their political power, but I try to really focus on the brute facts of what people are doing to other people in practice, and treating them as responsible for that, regardless of what they think - because people have all manner of delusions, especially about politics, but at a certain point I think you can't just disagree with people and focus on their good faith if they are actually harming innocent people based on their own misperceptions.
But then, I think a lot of the greatest harm being done politically is done by voters who vote and simply do not think whatsoever about the people they harm, or the ways in which that happen - I don't think they are aware or that they care in many cases. But I still think they're responsible.
When I read about families being torn about by ICE, I don't think that's what most Trump voters were thinking about when they voted, but I look at them and absolutely see them as guilty, in some ways more so because of the complete lack of interest or awareness. That the harm they do simply never enters their calculus makes the tragedy all the more obscene, and it cries out for someone to wake them up to what they are doing, for some stone to break through the glass houses of their insular little lives and show them the whirlwind.