We can try to make policies and police everyone for breaking them, and it will get us nowhere, because love can’t be forced. So what are we left with? Everyone hating everyone for something. I’m just as guilty of some form or other of hate as anyone else, though at least mine is for what I believe to be justifiable reasons. I hate people who knowingly, when of sound mind, choose to stand on the wrong side of history.
That doesn’t mean I want bad things to happen to at least most of them, but some, such as Donald J. Trump, Putin, all of Hamas, and Netanyahu too, to name only the latest few in a long line of swampy ilk, can rot for life in prison, as far as I’m concerned. They don’t love their countries nor their own citizens – they just want power over everyone and everything, not only in their own countries, but also, everywhere else. Each of them has also attempted to wield some form of power over the others, either directly or through trickery, and that’s all just even more reason to imprison them until they have all passed on. But their followers are just brainwashed cult-disciples. They might “know” what they’re doing, in the smaller picture, but they are clueless to the big picture of what’s really going on, world-wide. They only think they know, but seriously, they don’t, because each group of followers is part of that bigger picture, and in the end, they will be ordered to fight each other or be murdered by their own leaders.
That’s what their kind of hate gets everyone. Their kind of hate is about *race, nationality, borders, money… It’s about putting one group (each of their own groups) above all other groups. It’s about “us” vs. “them,” and about “they’re not human,” or “they’re kind are all dirty criminals,” and “so it’s ok to hurt or kill them.” It’s about citizens or refugees being treated as unequal under the law and about civilians operating under the color of the police or even of “God.” (Whichever version of “god” they happen to subscribe to.)
Anyway, I hate that kind of hate, and I hate those who knowingly, and of sound mind, embrace it. I won’t attack or try to harm them, but I will speak out against them, and say what I believe ought to be done with them. Them personally, not their brainwashed followers. The thing about brainwashing (having been put through that myself for several years, ending over a decade ago) is that you don’t know it’s being done to you. No one knowingly and willingly walks into a cult and says, “Ok, come brainwash me now!” Why does brainwashing work?
Most people aren’t well educated about narcissism, gaslighting, cultism (generic and religious), and religions in general. Many aren’t aware that they don’t have to allow others to make the rules for them, micromanage them, and decide about rewards and punishments for them, in this life or the next. They have not yet reached self actualization/actuation. They often suffer from lack of social education and arrested development. Many are emotionally vulnerably even if intellectually “superior” in one way or another. Most are skilled, well rounded, empathetic people who just “missed the memo” on what to watch out for when dealing with new people, or even those they thought they’d known for years or even decades.
It doesn’t help that our popular media does not well educate people in avoiding all of these problems (and problem-people), nor that our laws don’t protect us enough from narcissists when we are still children (so we get groomed for a lifetime of victimization by narcissists). Most narcissists don’t know they are narcissists, and believe that their interactions with others are completely normal. That makes it difficult to recognize and deal with them if you aren’t educated enough in this area.
In any event, many of our world’s most horrific leaders have followers because they are gaslighting narcissists. Those followers are often scholastically highly educated, usually have great careers going, high paying jobs, nice homes, etc., etc., etc… But those followers have fallen for a lot of social engineering tropes and traps, which is why, these days, those narcissistic leaders don’t even have to hide their evil anymore. They’ve hyped up their fan-bases, pumped them full of hate and adrenaline rushes, to the place where those supporters can’t tell the difference between unjustified hate and doing the right thing for the right reason. **They’ve lost the capacity to control themselves and refuse to become violent, if they ever had it to begin with. They’ve fallen for the lie that violence is a resort at all (first, last, whatever). They were not taught that violence is always wrong.
And so what do we have? We have terrible world leaders constantly either warring with neighboring countries or otherwise inciting violence (even within their own countries), all predicated on the idea that “my side is the only correct side, everyone else must die.” We have ***followers of theirs who believe them to either be “God” or be “god-like” or “next to god” or whatever. People who are willing to do whatever they are commanded by some self-proclaimed “leader” to do, based on the belief that that “leader” somehow knows what’s best for them, supposedly “loves” them, and all the rest of that nonsense. People who want to believe they are part of a bigger picture, that they’re contributing in some way toward creating a “better” group or nation or whatever. People who don’t understand that real family, healthy family, doesn’t look like this at all. People who may never have had a really nice, loving, honest family in the first place, even if they believed (through grooming) that they did.
And we have war, threats of war, threats of civil war, tons of unrest internationally and intra-nationally, because those followers are happy to do what they’re told, without giving any of it even a first thought. What does that amount to? Not only genocide, but apathetic brainlessness, which I actually would argue is even worse, because it’s unending, as are its devastating results. Why has the conflict in the Middle East gone on for thousands of years, off and on? Yes, hate, but also brainwashing, leading to unquestioning followers just doing whatever their leaders bid them to do. Sometimes it’s so bad that threats of death for disobedience are no longer even necessary. They’re like the old-style wind-up toy soldiers, just doing whatever they’re told to do, believing that it’s what they want to do, because they “love” their leader just so very darned much. So they’ve not only lost their minds, but also, their hearts, completely. Cult leaders love that kind of power over their followers.
In essence, that’s what’s really going on here. It’s a international bid for world-wide domination that isn’t expected to happen overnight, or even in the next handful of years. No, this is a long-term plan that each of the worst of our world’s leaders has cooked up for themselves. Their idea is to outbid each other in their genocidal conquests, until one “rises to the top” and effectively dominates this entire planet (or at least those nations which they view as consequential). Each of them has this idea in their head – to some of us in the world, this is plain to see. I believe they each see it in each other, and none of them cares because each assumes that they, themselves, are the obvious winner in this bidding war. They’re each using the same playbook, but have forgotten to read the last chapter.
Ultimately, those who are financially in poverty will not survive this, but really, in the end, it won’t matter, because the world that will be left to live in won’t be worth living in. Not if any of these evil monsters is allowed to stay in any position of power/authority/wealth. Those who can somehow (not usually though) be voted out, must be voted out. The rest must, somehow, be outlived, at least by some who can make better, more decent leaders down the road. That’s really the only way out of this: having better leaders – people who understand that good leadership does not equate to dictatorship.
What is good leadership? For one, setting a good, healthy, democratic and considerate example. For another, it’s service, not being served. Also, it’s being one of the people rather than being set apart from the people. Finally, it’s doing ones work so well that they are almost entirely forgotten by the masses. Good leadership is a thankless job, and very often, those who do the “lowest” jobs (janitorial, field work, volunteer jobs) are the very ones who make the best leaders. They don’t have wealth nor power, but they understand how to get the job done right, well, lovingly, and efficiently. They often are the unsung and un-wealthy heroes of this world. This is one reason that I believe money should not be a factor in people running for political office. There’s no better way to route out the real assholes than to make political offices so underpaid that they won’t bother with running for them.
That’s the only real way out of this: voting some out, and outliving the rest. We can do it. We do have to have the right plan and the right idea for it though. Hating innocent people is not the way. Harming them is unthinkable, and genocide is obscene. We have to be willing to see others who are different from us, as equal in value to ourselves in every way. We have to be willing to acknowledge their humanity, their basic human rights, and treat them with at least that much dignity. If we don’t do that, then we are giving them permission to dismiss our value, our rights, and our need for basic dignity. We can’t argue for the side of compassion when we have none in our own hearts ourselves.
That doesn’t mean being anyone’s doormats, but it does mean recognizing that it’s wrong to harm or kill others who are different from ourselves. To do such things is to become the dragon we seek to fight, and thus, our own battles are with ourselves. We can’t have the things we claim to want to have when we are unwilling to afford those things to others. We can’t build a beautiful life for anyone in this world, including ourselves, when we keep choosing to desecrate the very things that would make it beautiful. Diversity, inclusion, love, compassion, justice, freedom, responsibility, education, enjoyment… We can’t have these things when we would deny them to others, and even if we could, we would have no right to have them.
* Any member of any group can be racist, btw. That includes black people – every time a black man picks a fight with a white woman just so he can pull out his cell phone and call her a “Karen” (without filming the part where he antagonized her way beyond any reasonable limits), that’s anti-white and anti-woman racism and sexism. That’s why “black people can’t be racist” is absolute bullshit. Can Asians be racist? Yes. Their GenY college students are the primary reason for why GenY blacks lost out on the whole affirmative action thing. Can Whites be racist? Obviously yes. Every time a white person calls the police on a black person without at least seeing actual evidence that any actual crime was actually already committed by that specific black person, a crime has been committed by that racist white person, and they belong behind bars for life. Best to have physical evidence to hand over to the police before dialing 911.
** Take care, Liberals, because I’ve seen some of you get violent too. I’ve even been invited to join in the violence, but instead, I phoned it into the police, anonymously. I will not tolerate such invitations, and I will report any unreported violence that I become aware of. That includes destruction of property. I believe in building up, not in tearing down.
*** I suspect that some of those followers may not really believe that, but they know that to profess anything else is to possibly lose their lives. Having come from a cult-religion that I was raised in, I understand that, completely. Sometimes, the only smart move is to say nothing, survive and outlive the assholes who could kill you (one way or another), then pickup the pieces, help those you are now free to help, and move on with life. Sometimes it’s ok to recognize that you’re as much a victim as those who your oppressors would slaughter, and that your death wouldn’t help anyone in the long run.
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