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posted ago by Narg ago by Narg +28 / -0

Just knowing that the bad guys ARE bad guys isn't enough for lasting, positive change. A healthy paradigm that includes both love and freedom is necessary. Anything less is not really persuasive.

Those who oppose liberty, decency, and civil society are one paradigm-shift away from losing it all, and they know it.

A paradigm makes sense of a collection of facts. Science, as a paradigm, overcame the paradigm of superstition, helping to create the modern world. To succeed, the Great Awakening must also become a widely accepted paradigm. People must not only awaken to the horror of how evil and corrupt things are, but to the qualities that make a society healthy, prosperous, and safe.

Understanding that love and freedom are not opposites or at odds with each other, but instead a complimentary, co-dependent duality is important. Left / Right is designed to obscure that truth. Racial and other divisions are also, in part, meant to hide that truth. "Love thy neighbor" and "Live and let live" go together.

America became a beacon to the world because Americans understood that truth and formalized it, powerfully if imperfectly, in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution and Bill of Rights.

When fighting the evil of CRT or vax mandates or any other particular assault, the strength behind your opposition to that evil -- and the most persuasive argument with strangers or family or friends -- is usually the knowledge and expression that love and freedom are both important and are intertwined in human life.

Just my opinion, but it works for me.