It蘑菇视频 about morality, not politics
As someone who has ended friendships and cut several people out of my life over the past four years, I’m offended by the misguided suggestions popping up everywhere in the media that we should now forgive everyone and sing “Kumbaya.”
I have friends from across the political spectrum. It’s normal to disagree about politics. It’s healthy to debate different ways to do things. I didn’t remove people from my life because of differences of opinion or during some childish tantrum, they were cut out because of their moral failures. They had no problem supporting the idea of ripping children from their parents and keeping them in cages without beds or toothbrushes because they crossed an imaginary line in the sand while legally seeking asylum. Their minds didn’t change when evidence of rampant sexual abuse and forced druggings and sterilizations at the hands of customs and border protection came to light. They had no qualms with people’s constitutional and human rights being violated so long as the culprit was hiding behind a badge, no problem with people driving into crowds, and no issue with leaving our Kurdish allies twisting in the wind to be massacred by Turkish forces. Withholding disaster relief after hurricanes and wildfires was fine with them, as was playing favorites with lifesaving medical equipment during a public health emergency. They shamelessly valued money over human life.
These cannot be justified as necessary evils. I’m not sorry at all. I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with distancing yourself from grown adults who cross moral boundaries. While I understand the desire for harmony and reconciliation, that won’t be achieved by inviting the fox back into the hen house or choosing to bed down with the devil. Healing is impossible without addressing the injuries. Everything I mentioned is still happening. Right now. The knife is still in the wound. Whether we heal depends on people having the integrity to see wrong for what it is.
This is about good versus evil. It’s not over. Morality doesn’t run on an election cycle. You either have it or you don’t, and no one is obligated to waste time on people they no longer have respect for.
Justin Sims
Uniontown