No, Its Not You. This is Crazy.
No, It’s Not You. This is Crazy.
October 26, 2017 / John Pavlovitz
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I hear the nagging question you ask inside your head a few hundred times a day: “Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?”
It isn’t you.
You’re quite fine, and this is of course both good and terrible news—because of what it says about you and about the place you find yourself.
The fact that you see how wrong this all is, means your faculties are intact, your mind is fully right, and your heart is working properly. It’s all confirmation that you still have a soul doing what souls are supposed to do: keeping you deeply human in profoundly inhumane times.
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This is a reminder that this is not at all normal and that you are right to feel this disorientation.
You’re okay.
You’re not alone and you’re not crazy.
You’re also in good company.
Right now there is a massive army of similarly walking wounded sharing this place with you; fellow exhausted souls who realize that none of this makes any sense—people concluding that for their health, they will need to create distance from people they once allowed close proximity.
There are millions of good people out here still looking to be the kind of people the world needs; those committed to doing no harm, burdened to bring something decent where it is missing.
There are many of us who see clearly:
He is not normal.
His behavior and his words and his demeanor are all unhinged, dangerous, and wholly unworthy of his lofty position.
We can see that this is a bastardization of humanity, a rebellion against goodness, a mutiny against sanity.
We can see that those sanctioning and defending and co-signing it are equally unwell, equally disconnected from anything benevolent, similarly propelled by fear and greed and bitterness.
And that’s why we need to keep resisting it.
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It was only when the twin issues of abortion and gay rights began to dominate the political agenda of the Christian right that the unnatural alliance of conservative and Christian began first to develop and then to dominate. Within a generation we had the jarring scene of followers of the social and economic revolutionary Jesus giving time and money to parties committed to military spending, immigration controls, reduction in help to the poor and harsh, often thoughtless words about their opponents.
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Cue the usual attacks because someone has dared to change his mind, as though evolution is a sin and ideological and spiritual stubbornness a virtue.
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From my era (50s and 60s) in the Christian church (Baptist), the members would have thrown these vile money changes out in the street. What you said was very true.
Let's hope these our overtly Republican-supporting churches either go broke or fade away due to lack of attendance. It has to start in the member's hearts.
Everything today is based on The New Revised Grand Old Party Bible.
Old sins out, new sins in, new 12-Commandments, etc., all per Bannon, Rand and Norquist, LOL. 
Yesterday I was chatting with my landlady's husband - a republican through and through. So, he completely surprised me when he told me that he felt the republican party had set him adrift with no direction to go. I imagine many thoughtful republicans feel that way today - and yes there's a few thoughtful ones left - many of this ilk did NOT vote for Trump. I have many conservative neighbors and acquaintances who loathe Trump these days.
GOOD!
I'm doing my best to keep the communication lines open with these folks. I think many old school republicans just might be open to voting for democrats. Meanwhile -
RESIST!
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In times when truth and news are pliable, truth-tellers are worth more than gold. Loving resistance is a world-turner.
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I've bookmarked this article and will try to read it every few days, just for a healthy RESET.
We must resist this evil flood in any way practical, e.g.:
__ Boycott advertisers on right-wing talk radio and cable news.
__ Express our displeasure toward any corporation known to support right-wing politicians or causes.
__ Openly criticize any church that promotes right-wing dogma.
__ Engage with fellow citizens showing right-wing tendencies in subtle ways that might make them think.
__ Be active in community government and activities so our rational voice is heard.
tRump's administration needs to experience constant, relentless pressure and we gotta keep poking that bear from every direction! 
