After listening to the fear-based rhetoric of the the national conversation these past several months, I’m coming to believe that the most effective thing progressive people can do is to live these alternatives–pursue justice for all, feed the hungry, seek peace–in concrete acts. Refuting the rhetoric of those who live in fear is not possible because their narrative isn’t based on facts, it’s based on emotions, on fears of the “other.”
That leads to a fourth premise. We need a new narrative. A narrative that nurtures and heals. A narrative of hope.
Indeed we do. I grow so weary of the debate and the tone nowadays. I sure disdain Fox News for their “formative” role in this; they blast the airwaves with the adolescent , immature vitriolics.
We are called to perform the Works of Mercy! 🙂