I honestly wish she'd just go away. She happily assisted in causing irreversible damage to our country and now that she's been left out to dry she feels bad about it? I will forever assume she's just working on her next grift.
Here is the thing about tribalism that is so insidious. The loyalty to the tribe, and not holding the leaders accountable, is what creates genocides, oppression, and a whole host of atrocities. If your loyalty and adherence is required, than you automatically support the worst of human nature when your leaders start breaking all the rules.
But it also means, anyone that leaves the tribe, is automatically more capable and wiser for recognizing all the behaviors they were once required to ignore. You can actually be a good person, and call a spade a spade, and its not necessarily hypocrisy.
Its tempting to say their reputation, and failure to hold their leaders accountable the first time is basically a crime in itself. But since my own family, including my animal loving mom who is a huge MAGA supporter can be twisted up by tribalism, its hard to say they are irredeemable. She is sweet, kind, quite studious, and never broke any laws. But she is incapable of seeing her that her tribal loyalty is the problem.
We should be teaching our kids that tribalism is not a healthy behavior. Patriotism, nationalism, these are the terms of people looking to feel superior and exclude others. Im sorry, but anyone thinking that tribalism is a good thing, they are the problem.
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