Uniting the country again under the same reality will require some heavy lifting to bring right wing dialogue, no matter the form, to appreciate the truth without myth or distortion. What I find appalling about the dual truths that exist is that the lies were easily nurtured by the man who was president and is again. This time more toxic than the bleach he queried to its benefits. That is simply not healthy and Americans died within that paradigm because they believed the lies were the truth.
We are still there. Not Covid in its virility as before, but, the lies are still propagated as the truth and the pain instilled by those lies is boiling over.
In Southport, North Carolina a man in his boat approached people enjoying the shore and fired. That is simply heinous. My thoughts go to those suffering, but, also to my own family who have been married in the public park that is by the waterway. The ceremony had a beautiful day and was completely lovely. What are they thinking and feeling with blood splashing on the shoreline where they once celebrated?
The level of contemptible violence is taking an uptick since summer is turning into autumn. What, if anything, is being done to end the hatred and reward the truth with an embrace by those estranged from it? Nothing? We are left to wallow in misery forever?
People of different belief and persuasions need to get along otherwise the powers that be will see us at each other’s throats. This time though. It won’t be a fight over the economics of slavery. It will be about who lives the truth and who is its enemy.