1/ There's a bit of comfort in watching something like a National Prayer Breakfast featuring Donald Trump, a man who is the inverse of Jesus' teachings made flesh. There's a bit of comfort watching these people cheer for him, knowing that, with time, their hypocrisy will be…
2/ ...looked on with astonishment by people too young to be astonished by it now. Same with Republicans debasing themselves at the feet of a man who would, without a second thought, insult them, degrade them, ruin them in any way possible if doing so would benefit him…
3/ ...in even the smallest way. Watching this cult of personality take shape, seeing the casual cruelty it has unleashed, has been agonizing. Seeing families torn apart, migrants literally sent to their deaths, people of different faiths made fearful, bullying embraced, has…
4/ ...been enraging and heartbreaking. But in all of this, and even in knowing we're likely doomed to another four years, I haven't lost confidence that those of us feeling enraged and heartbroken are on the right side. That a reckoning will come, and we'll be proven right.
5/ Not "right" through any unique wisdom or great moral character. But "right" simply because we were raised to know right from wrong and to not sell out the former for the latter. "Right" because we know when we're being scammed.
6/ "Right" because if what benefits us hurts others, we know that's wrong. "Right" because if you say you believe in a person whose entire message revolved around love, kindness and compassion, you can't cheer a person who uses hate and cruelty to create pain.
7/ They can disguise their views now as an embrace of "toughness." They can hide behind excuses that Trump is an imperfect vessel but a means to an end. They can do that for now. But that's a thin drape over a crime scene. And a time will come when people who may still be…
8/ ...putting the pieces of this mess back together will look at events like the National Prayer Breakfast and shake their heads and say, "How could that have happened? How could they be that deluded? How could they be that callous?" We think the same thing about people…
9/ ...throughout history who have been part of mass brainwashings. We can't fathom it. But we're in a position right now to see what will come. To stand confidently, to speak up and speak out, fruitless as it may seem. And as easy as it is to feel downcast, there's comfort…
10/ ...in knowing how acts of boundless hypocrisy will one day be viewed. And knowing that, whatever hell might follow this day, those astonished future folks will take comfort in knowing we kept our feet firmly planted on the side that was right. END
