Friday, July 1, 2022

As a Nation We Will Someday Need to Decide if We Will Support or Not Support Hate Groups

This represents organizations but 
it is similar with nations. Each nation
should have core values and extremism
in hate and politics shouldn't be one of them.
See Company Culture. Notice top 10 and how
profession and culture might be different.
I've seen it! The distorted personality and self interested for gain make up stories to a group of people who have a difficult time thinking for themselves accept and act on those behaviors without pausing to ponder. That group jumps on the band wagon of hate and little is done to hold the perpetrators accountable. We then flip the page to our national politics and find similar strains occurring in different places and times and should scratch our heads. Without challenge hate will be embedded into our culture. 💁

When is enough actually enough?

Under our current system enough seems to occur when the behaviors are so grotesque they put lots of people at risk (Puts the "right" people at risk. Often the risks of the "wrong" people are talked about academically but ignored by the rest of society.). Prior to that there is little understand and little ability to hold accountable perpetrators. Where the signs of distortion are obvious the law is behind the curve (It is changing and it is now beginning to see the the bigger impact of legal circumnavigation of hate.). 

Again, that doesn't mean that the law is wrong, or immoral, but that the law often comes with its own misunderstandings of the world based on somewhat distorted legal logic. Instead of focusing on truth it is focusing on the legal game of theoretical logic played by lawyers and politicians. There is truth much deeper than citing obscure cases that are not 1 to 1 relations (Truth creates understanding and moral conscious as relates to application). 

We find ourselves intimidated by domestic extremism because many times these behaviors are/have been inadvertently encouraged and because the law struggles to see them for what they are (Its just too easy to blame and scapegoat others. The law is becoming aware of its universal nature over the past 50 years.). Effective change in our political and social environment will rest on detecting signs of distortion early and acting on them when they are apparent (No matter who the perpetrator and who the target.) 

Whether one is running through a capital chanting "Hang Pence" or running around town bragging about "Get the Muslims" the personalities have the very same strain of power mixed with mental distortions (The psychologist still struggle with differences of opinion and when opinion is designed to cause harm to others.). One's position (i.e. place of authority) and station in life (i.e. wealth) should not make a difference in the outcomes. If it makes a difference we have lots of changes we still need to work on. The proof is in the pudding and not in the feel good/feel bad rhetoric at today's water cooler.

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