The fallout from the US election continues and things are getting bizarre. Protests continue in different cities, we even had some in Toronto. As far as I can tell they are protesting because they believe Trump is evil and that he will enact evil policies that will strip the rights of minorities and descend America into a white supremacist state of hardened intolerance and bigotry. At least this was the impression my educated leftist friend gave when he rebuked me saying "I will not be silent while White Supremacy is becoming normalized!" and linked to an article listing several hate crimes against minorities that had been perpetrated by white supremacist thugs emboldened by Trump's electoral success.
I noted that the article had no references or links but didn't voice my skepticism because I know that for this particular friend that would mean getting blasted for robbing the oppressed of their agency... or something like that. Now, a week and a half later I see right wing posts full of references for how these 'whitelash' attacks were faked and no evidence of the supposed crimes can be located. As far as local and regional police are concerned the attacks were never reported to them even though many stories claim that the police were involved.
I understand that a lot of people are scared and that a Trump presidency is a dark prospect for some minorities and immigrants in the United States. This makes me sad. What baffles me though is that some folk are openly fabricating horror stories that leftists use to justify their narratives and that even once it comes to light that the supporting horror stories were just made up the narrative still stands. What baffles me even more is that the majority of leftist protesters protesting right now are paid to protest things that haven't happened. The explanation I can come to is that some very wealthy leftist forces are trying their best to keep their political power by controlling the people with fear mongering and, of course, the leftist media eats it all up and reports it as narrative confirming fact. Why all the dishonesty? I'm not a politically savvy person by any means, but I've heard it said that the left is all about the narrative. Narrative > Facts. If your supporters have a strong narrative they will interpret all the facts according to that narrative. The narrative serves the ideology and if you question the ideology or the narrative then, according to the narrative, you are either morally deplorable or require educating. It's a sick self validating spiral.
Oh, I know the right has its own spirals, don't think I'm endorsing right wing nonsense just because I'm criticizing left wing nonsense. I just wish we could cut the nonsense all together. Perhaps this is an impossible and even nonsensical wish.
But is it really nonsense? What is this vision that they are so caught up in, this all encompassing narrative? In what ways does it intersect with the Word of God and what He is doing in the world? Am I too generous, not generous enough, and does my mental generosity matter? Lord have mercy on us all as we walk according to the light in this world. In whatever our circumstances, insufficiencies, inadequacies, and ignorance give us grace to distinguish between the world's light and your light, and may we become as Christ said, the light of the world for all to see.
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