Maeve

Finding that the kingdoms of heaven and hell are within me. Knowing that working with my "demons" can make them my holy guardian angels and neglecting attention to the guardian angels cause them to become more ferocious demons than they were before.

It has to be hot, hot water and high heat in a dryer for an hour? I have heard isopropyl alcohol discussed but idk if it's effective.

I mean don't get me wrong, there are POC here that think maga is awesome, one of my neighbors does, and they're all less informed, but the neighbor that does seems like a decent person. Scratched the surface of Buddhism, Hinduism but still believes in satanic panic crap, but we still have decent conversations, share things when we have a need, swap YouTube links, and it's just mind-boggling to me. I just think he's indoctrinated. He doesn't seem racist, sexist, misogynistic either but... Idk I guess we all have our blind spots so I have hope of my parent can come around, this neighbor can, too. Idk about the POC though. And I miss the cheerful immigrants who used to work here. I hope they went home on their own rather than (risk) ice.

At least in my area. Not everyone but a not-insignificant amount. One of my parents is and that's saying quite a bit.

"The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know."

Self reflection doesn't hurt that much. I've been doing a lot of it lately. I see it as a sort of ... Not inoculation, kind of a penicillin shot for the current Ill of thought, word, deed. We're human, sometimes better, often worse, never a train not to seek to be better, but even then, we're human. Some days are better than others.

They did their jobs. They divided regular people and got kleptocrats to go full mask off. They're laughing at us, probably.

I've been saying it. And working for better. Good we're working together.

I don't need anyone to admit anything. I see maga voters getting on board, so apparently they already admitted to themselves they were too tired and stretched too thin, so were duped. It's not like our educational institutions do anything to help that, especially in red states. We have consistently defunded education since Nixon.

All I need is their motivation to work together. We can work out ideological differences with patience and fortitude, forgiveness and understanding, as we do that

Lovely. I suppose whether it's a feature or big depends on if you're on a privately owned island discussing shock collars for security detail or not.

Trump is a puppet of the monies kleptocrats. He has serious unresolved mental health issues stemming from unhealed father wounds, and probably mother wounds as well. He is merely a glaring reflection of what probably afflicts most of us, to serve the interest of the owner class, who probably have the same unhealed wounds and think their myopic, sociopathic hoarding and power grabs proves they are well-adjusted, rather than maladjusted. We can't fix them. We can fix us and work * with others to the extent they allow us, for a better future.

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If only Congressional Dems did that!