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I cant fucking do it, professors, parents sometimes even friends, when i talk to them i feel like i'm just a pebble in their road, like i don't count. I hate the fact that people seem to truly not care about my sentiments, about my mental health To not talk about parents.. I would truly like to think that they love or care for me, but every action they do seems like forced,everytime i look at them in the eyes it feels like they watch down on me, like im some fucking animal, i cant even talk to them about my current state since they wont take me seriusly and will always responde with the classic "you're overreacting". god i hate the world

My mother and I have had a very rough relationship for most of my life. When I was around 10 or so, she started drinking a lot and she quit her job that she had for over 10 years. Because I was the oldest child, that meant a lot of the responsibilities came to me with my younger siblings (there are 4 of them, 2 of them were literaly toddlers/babies). She had many spouts of working small jobs, which meant I'd have to babysit on the days we were over there (my parents are separated and myself and 2 other siblings would go to my dad's for half the week, the other two have different fathers). But then even when she wasn't working, her drinking got worse, and I'd still have to babysit. This went on until I was about 14, and CPS got involved and took us all from her. I'm 24 now, almost 25, and things have improved between my mother and I, but not much. She was barely around during my teen years. She had no place for me to stay when my dad and stepmother packed my things and kicked me out a month after graduating high-school, because of course, she was still drinking constantly.
Since then she doesn't drink as much now, so she is easier to have a relationship with. But she also expects me to just fully forgive her and trust her after all of those years I lost taking care of her children, going through my teen years with no support, and having to find other family to live with when I got kicked out at 18 with no driver's license or job. As I'm getting older, I'm realizing that not only is my mother an alcoholic, but she is a narcissist. And the more I'm learning about who she is, the more I realize, maybe I don't want a relationship with her at all. It's crazy because this is all I wanted when I was 15, 16, 17. I just wanted my mom like everyone else had theirs.
But some things have happened recently that have caused me to maybe think about cutting contact. I'll try to explain it without dragging it on too long, so I'm sorry if I fail at doing so:
About a month ago, I told her a movie was being re-released and I was really excited. We both really enjoy this movie, so she said we will have to make a plan to go see it. Well about 2 weeks ago, I visited 2 of my sisters, and they told me they went and saw the movie. All of them, with our mother, as a whole family (minus one siblings who lives in another state). But no one invited me. I was hurt by this, but not too badly, but I did decide to confront my mother about it, since I was the one who suggested we go in the first place.She immediately pushed all blame onto me and said she didn't invite me to come along because I'm "always busy." So you can't send a fucking text? How hard is that? Am I crazy for thinking that is out of line to ask my mom to at least try to invite me? If I was busy then oh well, but she could've at least tried.
So anyways she said that her and I could just go. I told her I didn't really want to and I wasn't feeling like it, because it really would've been fun to experience it with the whole family, and not just taking me because I was an afterthought. She gets mad and says that if I wanted to go so bad that I should've made plans well before they went. So once again, it's my fault that I wasn't invited, because I shouldve made the plan first??? She can't just apologize and say she should've just sent a quick text. Since that happened, I've been more distant because her reaction hurt my feelings, and I'm dealing with a lot of other stuff mentally. My mom has a tendency to text me literally every day sometimes (when she doesn't go back to her old ways and go on a drinking bender). I don't text anyone every day, and keeping up with the constant communication is very exhausting to me.
So a week has past since the movie debacle, and we're on to last Monday now. She texted me asking how I'm doing at around noon. I was very busy with work until around 4:30, and spent time decompressing and wasn't on my phone. Then at 6 pm, I get a knock on my apartment door. It's my mother. And she stopped by to make sure I was okay because I didn't answer at noon. Let me repeat that. My mother was so "worried" about her adult, nearly 25 year old daughter, not answering her for 6 hours. 6 hours!!! Not even a whole fucking day! And she knows I work. She knew I was busy that day.
So I get a bit defensive and she immediately gets mad and says I should appreciate that she cares about me enough to take the time to come to my house and check up on me. I simply tell her that I am an adult, and that I should be allowed not to text her every single day. I tried setting a boundary and saying that it is stressful for me to have to keep up with the constant communication. She literally just walked away while I was in the middle of a sentence and hasn't spoken to me since.
So here's one last bit of info. One of my sisters ended up being put into my grandparents care during the CPS stuff, and has stayed with them since. She lives in another state with them, so we don't get to see her very often. I have some past issues with my grandparents, my grandfather especially. Without getting into details, he made me very uncomfortable a few years ago while they were living in the same state as me. They were who I went to live with when I was kicked out of my dad's. I told my grandmother what he did to make me uncomfortable and she ignored me and chose not to believe me. I worry about my sister and have tried to get her taken out of their care in case my grandfather tries to be weird with her, but my hands are tied unfortunately.
So fast forward to this most recent weekend. I get a text from my grandmother saying they are in town, and they'd love to go to dinner. I made en excuse as to why I couldn't, because I have no interest in being in the same room as my grandparents, but of course I'd love to see my sister. They are here until next Saturday, so I still have time. But I didn't even know my sister would be in the state, because my mom failed to tell me.
So I texted one of my other sisters today to ask if they've seen her with our mom yet, or if there was a plan to. She replied "we all saw her yesterday and will probably see her again before she goes." I just started sobbing.
So my mom is so angry with me over me setting a boundary and asking for space last week when she showed up to my place, that she A) could not even give me a heads up my sister would be here and B) won't even tell me when they're seeing her so I don't have to put myself in an uncomfortable position by having to see my grandparents. She knows what my grandpa did and that I don't want a relationship with him or my grandmother. I don't even know if this is the right place for this post, but I am just so hurt and baffled. How can my mom not see that this all could've been avoided if she hadn't blamed me for her not inviting me to the movie, and then if she hadn't gotten so angry with me for setting what I believe to be a pretty normal boundary for an adult?
Any advice or kind words would be appreciated. I am super sad that this is happening. I think it may be time to cut off contact with her. I know it may seem so dramatic for me to end my relationship with her, but it's a long time coming. She always disrespects me and when I stand up for myself, she never apologizes and instead finds a way to make it my fault. I'm so tired of sitting here wondering why I deserve to be left out, especially when my siblings are alive and well mainly because of my raising them all those years, when I should've been allowed to be a kid and have fun. She treats the other kids so different than she treats me, and it hurts. I'm so tired of being my mothers punching bag. And I am more than tired of being punished by trying to live a normal and peaceful life after such a traumatic childhood. But then if she can't bully me, she starts texting the other 2 that are the next oldest when she's drunk, and I don't want that for them. They shouldn't have to deal with what I did. I want to protect them, but I also know with my mental health being as bad as it is, that I cannot carry the weight of my mother and all that comes with her forever. I'm just very lost and sad. Thank you to all who reads this and to anyone who may comment. I really appreciate anyone who takes the time to let me vent about this.

Hi everyone, I reconnected with a girl i went on a few dates back in 2021, but due to my severe CPTSD symptoms we stopped the contact, even though she wanted to help me go through that. I never wanted that, but it was really bad at the time and i just couldnt deal with emotions. I went full on on my healing journey after that, i had two psychotherapists specialized in trauma, i read a few books about PTSD and CPTSD, watched close to 100 online lectures about how trauma hijack our minds and bodies and as the result of that, i was able to heal 80% of my triggers and symptoms, if not even more. I am having an active lifestyle now, i dropped weed, actively training bjj which was a game changer, improved on most fields and expecting the promotion at my job. I changed my life for 180°. I am 40 years old and i have never felt so good about myself and life.
A few days ago, due to mutual friend leaving the country, we met again at the farewell party after almost 2 years. It was a bit emotional, but good and we agreed to recconect again as friends. The thing is, she is now the one struggling with anxiety and depression, is on medication and seeing the psychologist. Before it was mostly me who needed support from friends and i was never in position to support and help someone dealing with mental health issues. But, i want to help her and i am not sure how. She is also having avoidant attachment stule and I don't want to put pressure on her and push her away. She was the catalyst of my changes and i still care about her, i really want to be there for her and support her. Could i get some advices how to reach out to her without pushing her away and making her to shut down for me. Thank you in advance!

You've been horrible and controlling of me my entire life and only stopped because dad died. Now your health is failing and you expect me to be your caretaker. I'm nice to you because I live in your house.
I don't like you. You know nothing about me--not my favorite food, the bands I like, the movies I watch. Nothing. We're roommates. Yes, I love you and appreciate what you've done for me. But it wasn't enough and you've never apologized.
I haven't even begun my own life yet. I'm not financially stable and I juggle five jobs just to support myself as much as I do. I'm tired. I have my own chronic pain to manage. I can't take care of you and pursue my own goals. There just aren't enough hours in the day.
Today you looked right at me and said I need to cook for you from now on when you haven't made me a meal in almost a decade. I don't want to. But how do I say no when you've terrorized me my entire life and you're in bed less than five feet outside my door?
I'd literally rather die than go through what my cousin went through taking care of her mom, your sister, whose footsteps you followed in by never taking care of yourself. Now you're trying to resign me to the same fate.
You've also terrorized everyone else in my life to the point I can't lean on them for help. No one I know wants to help you. But they have the luxury of not living with you or being your child.
I don't.

throw out some ideas, I am curious to what people think.
(consumer sovereignty means the economic power exercised by the preferences of consumers in a free market)

throw out some ideas, I am curious to what people think.
(consumer sovereignty means the economic power exercised by the preferences of consumers in a free market)

I (17M) sprained my thumb about 2 weeks ago and went to an urgent care doctor recently. He told me that it was a grade 3 sprain and that I could live without the ucl in my thumb by strengthening the muscles at the base of the thumb. However, everytime I look online the advice is to get the ligament surgically repaired asap. I was wondering if it’s true that surgery is required, or if I can really live without it.

Super confused. Mid February I had a cyst rupture. I went to Urgent Care, they did an ultrasound, bloodwork etc. and just gave pain meds, saying the cyst fluid was out and it would go away on its own…… I did miss my period in February, I assumed it was because of the ruptured cyst (and it’s common I miss my periods every now and then)…..I still had some left ovary pain the last few weeks and other symptoms remained from the ruptured cyst, however I started to notice I was super tired, my boobs doubled in size and were super sore. I took two pregnancy tests and boom- both positive….. my husband and I tried for years and nothing - so its a little shocking. Unsure if they are false positives because of the ruptured cyst or if I’m actually pregnant. Anyways, got blood work today to confirm and waiting for results. 🤯🤯

Rather, type 9 becomes a person who works like a machine without a soul rather than being lazy as he becomes mentally impoverished.
There are two reasons.
1.Type 9 places the most importance on comfort.
They are the type that values comfort the most. They truly hate inconveniences, and stinking rooms or full of trash give them inconvenience. So they try to create a comfortable environment to eliminate inconvenience.
2.Type 9 is body (gut) tpye.
In fact, this is a more fundamental reason. Type 9 is still a gut type that prefers the senses of the body, no matter how lazy and dreamy it may seem. The commonality of gut types is that they value obtaining physical satisfaction. Gut type values the sense of being alive. So they usually move a lot to do a lot of physical activity. Type 9 is a type that moves a lot to achieve comfort. The reason why they try not to cause conflicts with people is to gain comfort. They are also the type of people who work hard at work so as not to cause conflicts with the world. Will they become more lazy as they become mentally impoverished? Not at all. The more unstable Type 9's personality is, the more obsessive it is not to cause conflict.
So the more mentally unstable Type 9 is, the busier it is, and the more it does not relax the body. Why? Because everything surrounding them is a conflict. (If you don't go to church, you'll have conflicts with church people, if you don't clean, you'll have conflicts with your family, if you don't take care of your health, you'll have conflicts with your body.)
The reason why Type 9 is always tired is not because they are lazy, but because they are tired because they care too much about too much.
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I’m currently at urgent care getting a Covid test, and was sick last week with a stomach bug. I always used to say that I never get sick, but this kid is giving me everything! Idk what to do, I’ve been working with him for a month and already had to call out a bunch. Anyone else go through this?

Hi! My name is Tommy, I'm a caregiver, companionship, support and guidance for people.
I create a resource to simplify finding help for your emotional and mental health. This platform is called Prisma (prisma.love).
My service as a caregiver started by taking care of my grandmother and the my mother. I help my sister to raise her two children and I organize donations and help people in my country (Perú).
After quarentine I decided start helping more people to find a sustainable well-being.
I invite you to contact me to learn more about how I can support you in your experience as a human.
Thanks for reading. All the links to my social accounts and web page are embeded in my reddit profile.
Have a nice day. (@ prisma.ecompanionship )

Can I get a Monopoly on your time? Our meeting is an Elder Sign. Maybe we can Settle for Catan. Yahtzee! Sorry. It was worth the Risk.
Hey ladies! My name is Kevin, I’m thirty and looking to chat, connect with and hopefully form a long-term relationship with a lovely woman. I am very left leaning, non-religious, emotionally available and child free. I am not looking to rush into anything, or put expectations on anyone.
My ideal date would be either staying in with a nice meal, socializing over a game, movie or other shared activity, or visiting a local museum/art gallery. I’m very into giving (and receiving!) massages, and generally feel the most content when I can help my partner relax and enjoy themselves. Snowed in, cuddled up by the fireplace? Heaven!
Physically I’m a tall, chunky and bearded Caucasian guy; totally rocking the lumberjack/teddy beaSanta Clause physique! I am currently working on certification for work as a mental health mentor, while volunteering as a long-term or palliative care giver for foster cats. I currently have two very shy/scared fosters that are the last of 5 of their litter born outside to be properly socialized. I’m making progress, having even gotten the blessing to pet the torty’s belly, but everything is at their own speed!
My dream would be to open up an animal sanctuary that doubles as a therapy center for humans. I have an unbreakable love for animals, and faith in their ability to help us heal. I think seeing a battered, scarred or withdrawn animal come out of their shell, seeking love, attention and comfort is one of the most rewarding things on the planet.
Some other things I enjoy:

• Tabletop (Board, Card, Miniature…) Gaming
• Trashy Reality TV
• Actually ‘good’ TV and Films (The Last of Us is so good!)
• Animals, obviously!
• A good mystery!

New babies: https://gyazo.com/f25a320db3d23fcdaf4a60a9a72fedbc

About a month ago I thought I was having some BV/Yeast type symptoms. I went to my obgyn and since test results were taking a long time there (6 days with the weekend) I ended up just going to urgent care. My obgyn ended up coming back shortly after urgent care visit and said yeast but no bacterial vaginosis (BV). My visit at urgent care around the same time said BV and yeast. I did the Metronidazole antibiotic pills and 2 Diflucan ( one at the beginning and end of antibiotics). After I finished all that I was still having symptoms, my primary symptoms this whole time has been soreness and kinda a pressure feeling like I am pushing but I am not and more than normal discharge but no smell and no itching after the initial yeast treatment.
I went back to urgent care as a follow up visit and they said I was still testing positive for BV (with a few/low clue cells) so I did the metronidazole gel this time and to be safe I also did another yeast pill at the end of antibiotics. Although it’s not a concern I also got tested for STDs at this appointment and everything was normal. I was also tested for Ureaplasma mycoplasma and that was also normal.
I am still having symptoms so I went to my OB/GYN again at the beginning of this week and explained everything they tested me again for BV and yeast and my results just came back normal. She said she didn’t think any pelvic floor issues and just thinks I am doing something that’s causing irritation but I always follow everything recommended like cotton underwear, no soap, clean and clear detergent, etc. and haven’t done anything new.
I then reached out to a family member who is a doctor and asked her advice and she said she thinks it’s just lingering BV and recommended I go back to urgent care to get tested again and get more antibiotics. I got tested and they said I still had a few clue cells which means BV. They gave me 10 day course of clindamycin which I am currently still in the process of taking. I also started a women’s health probiotic.
Some background information: I am currently taking Junel birth control (have been on it for about a year and a half) I had a leep procedure about a year ago. I am a mom to about 18 month twins via C section.
If you have made it this far I appreciate it! I guess i’m looking for support if anyone’s been in a similar boat and if so anything that may have worked for them or tests that gave them answers. Thank you!

Can I get a Monopoly on your time? Our meeting is an Elder Sign. Maybe we can Settle for Catan. Yahtzee! Sorry. It was worth the Risk.
Hey ladies! My name is Kevin, I’m thirty and looking to chat, connect with and hopefully form a long-term relationship with a lovely woman. I am very left leaning, non-religious, emotionally available and child free. I am not looking to rush into anything, or put expectations on anyone.
My ideal date would be either staying in with a nice meal, socializing over a game, movie or other shared activity, or visiting a local museum/art gallery. I’m very into giving (and receiving!) massages, and generally feel the most content when I can help my partner relax and enjoy themselves. Snowed in, cuddled up by the fireplace? Heaven!
Physically I’m a tall, chunky and bearded Caucasian guy; totally rocking the lumberjack/teddy beaSanta Clause physique! I am currently working on certification for work as a mental health mentor, while volunteering as a long-term or palliative care giver for foster cats. I currently have two very shy/scared fosters that are the last of 5 of their litter born outside to be properly socialized. I’m making progress, having even gotten the blessing to pet the torty’s belly, but everything is at their own speed!
My dream would be to open up an animal sanctuary that doubles as a therapy center for humans. I have an unbreakable love for animals, and faith in their ability to help us heal. I think seeing a battered, scarred or withdrawn animal come out of their shell, seeking love, attention and comfort is one of the most rewarding things on the planet.
Some other things I enjoy:

• Tabletop (Board, Card, Miniature…) Gaming
• Trashy Reality TV
• Actually ‘good’ TV and Films (The Last of Us is so good!)
• Animals, obviously!
• A good mystery!

New babies: https://gyazo.com/f25a320db3d23fcdaf4a60a9a72fedbc

Hi! My name is Tommy, I'm a caregiver, companionship, support and guidance for people.
I create a resource to simplify finding help for your emotional and mental health. This platform is called Prisma (prisma.love).
My service as a caregiver started by taking care of my grandmother and the my mother. I help my sister to raise her two children and I organize donations and help people in my country (Perú).
After quarentine I decided start helping more people to find a sustainable well-being.
I invite you to contact me to learn more about how I can support you in your experience as a human.
Thanks for reading. All the links to my social accounts and web page are embeded in my reddit profile.
Have a nice day. (@ prisma.ecompanionship )

Hi! My name is Tommy, I'm a caregiver, companionship, support and guidance for people.
I create a resource to simplify finding help for your emotional and mental health. This platform is called Prisma (prisma.love).
My service as a caregiver started by taking care of my grandmother and the my mother. I help my sister to raise her two children and I organize donations and help people in my country (Perú).
After quarentine I decided start helping more people to find a sustainable well-being.
I invite you to contact me to learn more about how I can support you in your experience as a human.
Thanks for reading. All the links to my social accounts and web page are embeded in my reddit profile.
Have a nice day. (@ prisma.ecompanionship )

Hi! My name is Tommy, I'm a caregiver, companionship, support and guidance for people.
I create a resource to simplify finding help for your emotional and mental health. This platform is called Prisma (prisma.love).
My service as a caregiver started by taking care of my grandmother and the my mother. I help my sister to raise her two children and I organize donations and help people in my country (Perú).
After quarentine I decided start helping more people to find a sustainable well-being.
I invite you to contact me to learn more about how I can support you in your experience as a human.
Thanks for reading. All the links to my social accounts and web page are embeded in my reddit profile.
Have a nice day. (@ prisma.ecompanionship )

WHAT??? Our founding fathers put forth a structure of checks and balances that ensure nothing Authoritarianism ever happens. While Authoritarianism has never happened, we have seen constitutional failure that resulted in a Civil War. If a Civil War can happen, why is it not possible for the rise of Fascism, or an Authoritarian leader to rise to power. We have already seen an attempt to overthrow the system and keep a leader who clearly lost an election. Since then, we have seen others try to follow that framework. Things like January 6th don’t just happen.
Let’s dive a little deeper into some of the most troubling and signs that our Democracy is fractured and could be in trouble.
A Growing Distrust in Science
I start with this one very purposely due to recency bias with COVID. There has always been an anti-vax movement. In the 1860’s Britain found its first anti-vax movement after the smallpox vaccine was made mandatory with penalties for refusal. In the 1870s, a British anti-vaxer came to America and started the movement. That fizzled out. There have been movements here and there since. The modern movement however can be traced back to 1998 and a British doctor named Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield recommended and falsified data for the MMR vaccine suggestion that the vaccine caused autism. With the newly popular internet, the growing media, and the growth of rapidly growing access to information we end up with a massive conspiracy with legitimacy due to false information. There have always been circles that distrust science, but this one was different. It was mainstream, celebrities got on board, we still live with the fall out and here this one. Wakefield admitted that he did not do a full study, falsified information, and served prison time. He set the cornerstone for a lot of the distrust in science we see today however. His study has helped turn the world into an anti-intellectual society.
There is a lot more we could dig into between Wakefield and COVID but I feel this is enough background at this point. We could get into the science of mRNA, and false perceptions. We could get into the fact that it was identified in the 1960’s and has been in use for medical applications, including vaccines and cancer treatments since the 1990’s and the science has been proven safe for decades. We could get into the fact that 90+% of the ingredients are more or less inert and in use for other vaccines and medicine and has been for decades, but that’s enough of that. Let’s get into COVID and the crippling blow for science that was dealt during COVID.
Rudy Gobert and the NBA shuts the country down. In the US, we watched as Italians sang off balconies during the lockdown. Venice canals turned pure blue due to lack of boat traffic. China was sealed into their houses, sometimes by bolting their doors. We all knew it was coming, then Rudy tests positive for COVID. The NBA cancels games and the rest of the country follows suit. We were in lock down. We know we had a new Coronavirus that was different, easily transferable, and had the potential to be very serious.
Quickly we picked sides. We used the same data points to prove the other side wrong. We used scientists and a shifting understanding of the virus to prove/disprove our feelings about how COVID works. I use the term feeling deliberately. This is the key here. True science does not pick sides, but we pick the sides that best fit our political beliefs. This in turn created a massive influx in false data and further eroded the trust in our scientific community. We had our President as one of the main anti-vax influencers (link: https://www.psypost.org/2021/06/study-indicates-donald-trump-was-the-main-anti-vaccination-influencer-on-twitter-in-2020-61032) while pumping billions to accelerate a vaccine. A president who was fueling the anti-mask movement while wearing one himself (link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53378439). The face of the scientific community for this issue was not much better. Dr. Faucci starts comes out and says masks don’t work, only to back track and say it was because the masks were needed for health-care workers (link: https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8735-4022-a1f5-1580bc732c45). I use CNN on purpose here as it’s the left calling out the left. This statement had a big effect on the movement as well and further eroded our trust in science. Even more troubling, 36% of Republicans distrust science. If you look at these survey links from 2/15/2022, you can see the results (pew link: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/02/15/americans-trust-in-scientists-other-groups-declines/ and https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/10/25/americans-value-u-s-role-as-scientific-leader-but-38-say-country-is-losing-ground-globally/). Another troubling shift, is the declining trust in education, you can see where that is going. You can also point to this study and overlay it with how Trump planed the steal the election claim. I feel this is a good stopping point and time to move on to the media. If you want me to detail the timeline of how Trump set up his ability to claim election fraud, I would be happy to spend some hours putting it all together.
The Media
We live in a time where the media is as much of the news as the news is. We have massive cooperation with a 24-hour news cycle which needs constant content to stay afloat. They have their sides and vision for what this country should be. We have less reporters and journalists than people who push propaganda and agendas down our throats. We do not have state or party funded media, but we have media that is attached so much to the parties, there is barely a difference. We have very few fact reporting centered news organizations (link: https://libguides.com.edu/c.php?g=649909&p=4556556). It is our fault though, very few if any media outlets are not for profit. They are feeding us what we want to hear, not what we need to hear. That’s what sells, and with the race for content and the growing competition, what else can we expect? Then we have the internet which has become media by meme, YouTube, and TickTok (link: https://www.pbs.org/newshounation/in-the-age-of-memes-how-are-young-people-getting-their-news). With that we have bot farms, hackers, and other foreign agents sponsored by other governments and companies hired by politicians (see Cambridge Analytica) working fairly successfully to undermine our Democracy. We have made a shift to alternative news sources, unreliable news sources, or news sources that are created to mislead the rest of the world. We are fed a stream of propaganda, we eat up, and repeat the misinformation until it becomes true. Fascist and Authoritarian leaders have known for decades, if you can create a big enough echo chamber, anything can become true.
Fringe Groups/People in Places of Power
There are a couple categories here. There are the fringe politicians who take mainstream ideas to the extreme and there are the fringe politicians who are just conspiracy theorists. A.O.C., MTG, Lauren Bobert, Ilham Omar, Trump, and many more. If everything is good, we do not elect fringe politicians. It is a sure sign a shift has happened and it's not good. We are unhappy, we are believing the conspiracies. The propaganda is working. Something is rotten in Denmark. There are many things this can be attributed to including Rapid technological changes, groups feeling marginalized, the two-party system that has been stagnant for decades and has been engaged in tit-for-tat politics since for most of the last century. The A.O.C. group who push the boundaries of mainstream ideas is not necessarily unhealthy. It can be healthy if in the right conditions. Testing the boundaries helps you grow and evolve. You get new ideas, new perspectives. The MTG conspiracy theory group is dangerous. Two things happen with this group, it gives further legitimacy to the conspiracy, and they use the conspiracy to expand their power base. You can trace the great Jewish conspiracy through Europe for centuries and see this. Look at all the “Devine” monarchs. It is all over in history. Typically, there is a group that is pointed at including Jews, LGBTQ+, women, Africans, and Islam to name a few. If there is a them, it's easy to create a us.
Targeting groups
We are seeing this in many areas. It is rapidly becoming more and more prevalent. We have politicians in South Carolina who are trying to pass legislation for women who get abortions. We have politicians in Florida trying to pass legislation so women cannot talk about their periods. We have all kinds of legislation passed against the LGTBQ+ community. We have laws on the book that disproportionately affect various races, and when they bring it up, they are snowflakes. We are building laws and banning citizens from numerous countries. Give us your poor, your week, your huddled masses, as long as they fit the bill. Books are being banned, including some that are formative and important for people to learn how to understand the world, all under the guise to protect our children. We would not want our children learning our true history, we would not want our children learning to accept THEM. We don’t want equality. If THEY have more, WE have less. In a country with 3.5% unemployment, high paying tech jobs that can only be filled by H1V1, we have a good part of the country that would be capable of filling these jobs if we just thought differently. There is enough to go around, but instead of upskilling and getting our citizens into these high paying professional jobs, we are making America great again. America has always been anti-immigrant to a degree but when you start seeing laws passed, the gap between us and them accelerates. As the divide becomes greater, the easier it is to rule based on fear. Historically, this is the gateway to genocide.
Militarization
This one is often overlooked but it is an important one. A sure sign that your country is becoming nationalized is when your military is beyond reproach. Now I am not saying we should not be grateful and kind to those who served. I am saying we should examine our military and hold them accountable when they do something wrong. As we fail to do this, the nation starts to come before all. If someone speaks out against injustice, disrespects the flag, the office of the president, they are ostracized. It starts with militarization. Once the military becomes beyond reproach, civil servants are next. You can see this throughout history. Look at Vietnam, look at Nazi and the Kaiser's Germany, really almost any authoritarian regime.
I am not saying we are at the tipping point. I am saying the signs are there. Unless we can start to find a way to come back to the middle, the divide will continue and we may end up in an authoritarian state.