John Pavlovitz discusses why America isn't politically divided, it's morally fractured. Here's the heart of his observation:
The dividing lines in America have nothing to do with party affiliation anymore.
Just open up your phone, eavesdrop at the checkout line, or talk to your neighbor, and you’ll see the lines along which we now find ourselves:
One side celebrates innocent people being assassinated in front of their children, without due process.
One side rejoices in strangers going without food or medical care or housing, without knowing a single one of their stories.
One side applauds the bombing of foreign school children and the destruction of entire populations.
One side blindly despises other people for their gender identity, despite it having no impact on their lives whatsoever.
One side reduces an entire population to terrorists and drug dealers to justify their swift eradication.
One side conflates whiteness with righteousness.
One side defends the protection of pedophiles.
One side steadfastly worships a felonious, treasonous rapist.
And none of this is about politics; it’s about when faced with the suffering and injustice in our path, whether we will default to compassion or to cruelty...
Faced with these contrasts, millions of Americans will choose the "cruel side" former pastor Pavlovitz cites above, again and again. He's written in the past about the necessity to ostracize them if Ameica's to survive. That's why it's always good to remember that while the Malignant Fascist is perhaps the purest manifestation of this moral evil in our history, it's dark ugliness certainly preceded him and will certainly outlast him as the "cruel side."
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