Broken Tools
I'm always a little in awe of those who are so sure that they have all the answers.
Are they really so stupid, or just lying to themselves?
Back in the 80s, N joined the Starhawk vanguard and let her politics become her religion.
For years she was a social activist warrior: protests, marches, and power-raisings against the Wrongs of the Right became her Craft. Her causes somehow came into every conversation. Worthy as her goals were, we all got a little sick of hearing about them all the time.
Now Tr*mp is back in office. The waters that she worked so hard to protect are fouled with plastics and forever chemicals. I listen, silent, to her railing. The old social firebrand is gone. She's angry and bitter, glad only that she bore no children to inherit whatever comes next.
Nothing is quite so sad as a failed vision.
At the moment, Evangelicals are reveling in their current cultural ascendancy, but their triumph will not last. The Wheel turns. Their youth are leaving, looking elsewhere because they're sick of having rewarmed Right-wing politics passed off as spirituality.
It's a lesson hard of the learning, for Left and Right both: don't let your politics become your religion. When you do, both tools will assuredly fail you, just when you need them most.
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I watched an interesting video by that 'Religion for Breakfast' guy on YouTube. It was called "Would Jesus vote Republican or Dem
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I could not disagree more. Our religions should be SUFFUSED with politics. If we're not here to make a better world, what is the
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For years, the Honeywell Project here held protest after protest against the Honeywell Corporation, which at the time was manufact