I am going for hope today and this should not be impossible... right?
Freedom is not freedom without the freedom for all of us to make diverse choices about who what and why we are. Inevitably this means that communities that exist side by side will sometimes differ in opinion on the best way to get stuff done, which can create a certain level of disagreement… in any successful democracy this is a necessary part of our governance, otherwise we would all be living in one party states. In the universe of normal, pre-Trump and pre-Brexit, everyone understood this, as nations we had a common solidarity, one with the other, about who what and why our nations were what they were. There were certain values and belief systems that bound us together outside the nuts and bolts of left, right, centrist, defending our constitutions being a case in point.
We know that there are values that should never be sold, and lines that should never be crossed. Right now, we are governed by arseholes that have erased those lines in favour of populist right wing demagoguery. We know that authoritarians of all stripes force alternative facts on the populace with the intended purpose of divide and conquer across communities. And bloody hell, aren’t they being effective right now?
However, this is where the hope comes in. This complete and utter lack of conscience and consideration for others separate those who lead us from the majority. They are sociopaths and I have to believe that the mainstream is not. The more they pander to the worst among us the more people with any modicums of humanity are going to have their eyes opened to what who and why they are. Of course, there are always going to be those that suck up the bullshit, but we have to hope that when it comes down to it these are not a preponderance of the population. We have had a bumpy ride in recent years, but taking our countries back is not impossible in the least, right?
