The point for many of us is not that we have a perfect life or don’t have compassion for others but that everything is not so awful for everyone either. And it’s not possible to tell who life is and isn’t good for by looking at one thing like political affiliation. There is vast inequity in our communities and it spans the parties or churches or other ways people are being inaccurately sorted. While I, for example, am far from rich and yet feel very safe, I am not living in the pre-apocalypse that some people keep describing. And the poor people I work with daily aren’t either. The poor, including the working poor, have real and basic needs that the folks worried about the impending horrors they imagine don’t seem to be experiencing. But then the poor have had those real and basic needs for generations. So many of the people who now prophesize or predict horrors inflicted on them never seemed to be to too concerned about those poor people for all those generations.
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