Their crimes, no matter how brutal or shocking, immediately become about their redemption, prior even to any consequence.
Their lies, no matter how vacant, become valid perspectives, and we are tasked with not only understanding them but sympathizing.
Their lies, no matter how vacant, become valid perspectives, and we are tasked with not only understanding them but sympathizing.
Their hatred of others becomes something from which they alone suffer.
Their excuses are valid simply because they have made them.
The things they did are always too far in the past to address.
The things they are threatening to do are always too speculative to prevent.
Their excuses are valid simply because they have made them.
The things they did are always too far in the past to address.
The things they are threatening to do are always too speculative to prevent.
Their greed is celebrated for driving the economy.
Their selfishness, for building wealth.
Their violence is always justified by their fear.
They are never too old to commit youthful indiscretions, even when those indiscretions leave a trail of trauma and corpses.
Their selfishness, for building wealth.
Their violence is always justified by their fear.
They are never too old to commit youthful indiscretions, even when those indiscretions leave a trail of trauma and corpses.
They believe any country is theirs to overthrow, any time they want, because they think only they matter, and the idea that they should face consequence even for declaring war against their own nation runs so counter to their fathomless self-regard it justifies further violence.
They aren't the heroes. They are the villains of any story, by any metric.
It's time for us to start telling the story that way, everywhere we can, as much as we can, as loudly as we can.
It's time to defeat our foundational lies with truth.
It's time for us to start telling the story that way, everywhere we can, as much as we can, as loudly as we can.
It's time to defeat our foundational lies with truth.
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