Build up our community, not tear down our neighbors.
Build up our community, not tear down our neighbors.
"What then has been given to you with which to meet this attack? If you seek to act like a wolf, you can bite back and throw more stones than your neighbor did. but if you seek to act like a human, examine your store, see what faculties you brought into the world? You brought no faculty of brutality, did you? No faculty of bearing grudges, did you? When then is a horse miserable? Not when he can't sing "cuckoo!" but when he can't run...Does it not follow then, that on the same principles a human is wretched, not when they are unable to choke lions...but when they have lost their kindness and faithfulness?" (Epictetus 4:5:12-14)
I'm honestly more of an ideas guy, but I've cycled through all five stages of grief due to what politics continues to do to the country that I love, so maybe now I'm looking to find a support group of like-minded individuals to tell me everything is going to be OK.
I'm tired of all the anger and manufactured hatred, but more than anything, I'm tired of feeling like I can't do anything about it. Maybe the best way to win the culture war is by laughing at it.

How do we get to a place where we stop hating our neighbors, and go back to hating politics like nature intended?
70% of American adults DO NOT watch cable news on a regular basis* (and are more fun to talk to at dinner parties)
If you find that both encouraging and frustrating, you’ve come to the right place.
*According to more than two, but less than four, well written ChatGPT searches


I believe that we have reached a point in our country's history that we need to return our focus on our local communities, and I believe we can do that by creating a community large enough to demonstrate that there is strength in choosing neighbors over politics. Let's find out how big the community is.

(Neighbors Over Politics Everyday)
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