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Perhaps they did not know when it would come, or what it would require to what end. But they had to know they’d face the crucible that will reveal a moral fiber, if they had one.
They’d have to choose then: good or bad, peace or harm, truth or falsehood.
It would appear an easy choice, to go for better judgment. And yet they had so tangled themselves in the net of lies, that extrication meant losses they weren’t quite prepared to reap. Not when they hoped for revenue from crouching behind flags of insurrection.
They capitulated.
Dark history, revisited.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Crucible in 100 words
Na’ama Y’karah,
Nope. Not surprised at all. But you wrote and said it so well.
Shalom (b’vahkeshah)
Rochelle
https://rochellewisoff.com/2021/01/09/weekend-writing-prompt-crucible/
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Thank you, Rochelle … yes, I think it is probably not surprising, even if still disappointing … because we know, from history, the price these things exact and how they end …
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Let us hope enough people have learned from this last week that things may improve. Who knows how close we came to something worse…
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Yes … though I worry that the twisting of reality is already in motion, and that those who should have learned from it, did not (as evidenced by over 140 people voting in favor of the false reality that led to the deadly insurrection mere hours after it took place)
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Let us hope this was rock bottom and now, the fight to pull up and out of the muck can begin.
Well done, my friend.
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Yes, we can hope that this is so. I’m certainly ready to see this as their hitting bottom. Alas, there is much to worry still, not only from the ongoing incitement and from the votes of so many mere hours after a deadly attack, to continue and support the opposing of a fair and free election (for some of them, essentially having the hypocrisy to claim fraud while accepting their OWN election by the very same ballots!) … but the complicity of some in the police and department of defense, and the reality that so many in the very Congress he’d urges his mob to attack, aren’t willing to take any steps to ensure he does not inflict more and worse harm …
But, I am an optimist, and I also see ordinary people across the spectrum of American society speak up against this, call this “too far” and vote for democracy and a functioning government for the PEOPLE in a few days …
Hugs, my friend …
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Yes, there is much to worry about and there is a LOT of work ahead. So much damage has occurred over the last four years and it won’t be easy to clean it up.
And yes, you must remain an optimist – you are not alone.
Hugs to you, my friend.
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Yeah, I’ve got a life-sentence in Optimism.
It ain’t changing any time soon … And … Optimism LOVES company! 🙂 Hugs back atcha’ galfrend!
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It’s a fantabulous life-sentence. And of course it does. xoxo
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xoxo 🙂
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What happened must have come as a shock to many and put doubt in some minds as to the futility of such things. Well done Na’ama.
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Yes, I think it has come as a shock to many. Probably shouldn’t have, given the incitement for violence and the rhetoric and the normalization of ‘big lies’ that led to this … and is still supported by too many in the very Congress that was attacked.
Where I don’t agree is where it comes to futility – alas, history has shown us that coups can happen, and that sedition can destabilize the best democracies, and with disastrous consequences. I hope that the complicity will be addressed and that the work will be done to help bridge the gap between people and to deprogram those who’ve been conditioned to accept one man’s imagined reality over all facts and evidence. Tender times, these!
Here’s to hope and humanity and truth and democracy. Na’ama
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Amen to that..
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Yes!
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