“HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE; ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT”-Martin Luther King Jr.

Do you want less hate in our country? Do you want to know that you’re helping to make that happen?

Do you believe in the freedom to think and believe whatever you want?

Then it starts with you.

Hate can’t be stopped with hate. If you’re encouraged to be angry or violent, to act based on emotion instead of logic, then the solution you’re being offered is part of the problem. Wishing harm, pain, or death on someone for their beliefs is wrong, no matter how wrong you think they are. There’s no moral justification for wishing harm to others.

POLITICAL HATRED

Politics have become more toxic than ever. Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped seeing people who disagree with us politically as human beings, and started seeing them as labels: “Hate.” “Evil.”

Once someone is no longer seen as a person with fears, values, and reasons for what they believe, it becomes easy to wish and even justify violence against them. This is DEHUMANIZATION and it doesn’t start with monsters, but with ordinary people who stop trying to understand each other.

People’s political beliefs are shaped by many things: their religion, their family, their friends, their life experiences, and not necessarily “hate”.

Too often, our thinking has turned into something simple and dangerous: “If the other side did it, it must be wrong.” When actions are judged by who does them instead of whether they’re actually right or wrong, logic loses and division wins.

Once people are dehumanized, hatred toward them starts to feel justified. Actions that would once have felt unthinkable begin to feel acceptable, even necessary. This is a recipe for increasing violence and hate, instead of safety and peace.

Most news today isn’t neutral. Many outlets lean toward one political side, and that shapes how stories are told and what people are encouraged to believe. This is a great source for media company biases. This is a source for political donations of various media companies. We also recommend this and this. Know your sources and their motivations!

An interesting note on The New York Times according to Influence Watch:

“In 2016, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was given veto power over which of her quotes would be used to ensure making her look as good a possible. They also founded the “1619 project” that promotes a “Woke” worldview. Here’s a quote from African-American community development activist Robert Woodson from a Wall Street Journal op-ed: “The most devastating aspect of the project’s narrative is its insinuation that blacks are born inherently damaged by an all-prevailing racism and that their future prospects are determined by the whims of whites.”

You wouldn’t want your reasons assumed, would you? So let’s not do that to others.

If you’re pro-abortion, is it because you want to “kill babies” or because you believe in control over your body?

If you’re anti-abortion, is it because you want to “control women’s bodies”? or because you believe that “ending a life is wrong?”

Do you believe that gender is biological, or something a person can choose? Whatever your answer is, it’s unlikely that it comes from hate.

Every country began as a home for a group of people and their shared culture, much like your home is a place for you and your family.

Because of that, most countries have borders and laws about who can enter, not out of hate, but out of a desire for safety and stability.

Borders function much like a front door, not to exclude others, but to protect what’s inside.

Laws exist to provide safety and structure in society. In most parts of the world, from Africa to the Middle East to Asia, entering a country illegally is treated as a serious crime.

If you’re against enforcing immigration laws, is it because you “support breaking the law”, or because you think that people who came here illegally have serious reasons to do so?

Do you want to enforce our immigration laws because you “hate immigrants and people of color“, or because you believe that you can’t knowingly break the law without consequences?

Do you believe that people who enter countries illegally often have serious reasons for doing so? Or do you believe that “breaking the law is OK”.

Do you believe that knowingly breaking the law is wrong? Or do you believe that people should be “deported based on race”?

We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.
You are free to criticize the government and want laws to change. In a democracy, change happens through voting, peaceful debate, or by running for office yourself. When an election is decided, respecting the outcome is part of respecting democracy itself.

The solution is simple: stop dehumanizing each other, vote for what you believe in, and let democracy work.

IDENTITY USED TO DETERMINE WORTH

No one chooses the race, gender, or sexual orientation that they are born with,
because of that, no one has the right to treat others differently based on their identity.

Your identity should never determine whether you are hired, promoted, accepted into college, or treated with dignity and respect.

Equal treatment under the law is at the heart of our Constitution, and it must be upheld.

LOW FERTILITY RATE

You can see how it looks globally here. A country needs to have a 2.1 fertility rate to adequately replace its population. A fertility rate below 2.1 reveals a declining population, while a rate above that, indicates an increasing or stable one.

There’s nothing positive about a declining population, as it puts more pressure on younger people to support the large retirement class. It also can have catastrophic implications, as it would lead to entire populations ultimately dying out.

We need to make having children more desirable. This means tax breaks, rent discounts and even treating housewives with more respect. Motherhood is a job and stay at home parents deserve financial benefits for raising future taxpayers.

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