Right now, looking at the supposed "greatest country in the world" (as Americans like to think of themselves, my advice is this: "If you want a better world, start at home!"
Please read the following words, printed yesterday in the Atlantic, written by Peter Wehner:
he Atlantic, Monday, by Peter Wehner.
"Trump’s rhetoric is a permission slip to his supporters to dehumanize others, just as he does. He portrays others as existential threats, determined to destroy everything MAGA world loves about America. Trump is doing two things at once, pushing the narrative that his enemies must be defeated while dissolving the natural inhibitions most human beings have against hating and harming others.
The most troubling aspect of this whole troubling drama has been the people in the Republican party who, though they know better, have accommodated themselves to Trump’s corruptions time after time after time. For most Republicans to acknowledge what Trump truly is, and still stay loyal to him, would create enormous cognitive dissonance.
The evangelical movement in America has been reshaped by the sensibilities of Trump and MAGA world. It is a rather remarkable indictment of those who claim to be followers of Jesus that they would continue to show fealty to a man whose cruel ethic has always been antithetical to Jesus’s and becomes more so every day. Taking a stand for conscience, even long after one should have, is always the right thing to do. Far too many Christians in America are not only betraying their humanity; they are betraying the Lord they claim to love and serve."