I was walking in Adams Morgan, a vibrant neighborhood, last week with my daughter and we saw a young African American man who was convulsing and vomiting on the ground. This was at 8:00 in the evening and there were lots of people walking past this man. One other woman called 911 with me. People are checked out and don’t want to see this.
I believe that this is part of the problem of the normalization of the heartlessness that we see.
Agreed. The normalization of heartlessness will not stand so long as we counter it just like you and that other lady did. Thank you so much for calling 911.
Thank you soooo much!!! What a powerful post. Early on Jesse said something really interesting re: homeownership being seen as a device for wealth building. My house is almost paid for now. I am so grateful. I could not afford to buy my own house if I were in the market today. My small, bucolic, artsy, Oregon wine country home has become unaffordable for so many working people. We came here after we got priced out of Portland where we had been active, contributing members of our community. I like your phrase "amoral capitalism," Marianne. Making a.profit does not mean the impoverishment of workers. This heartless fascism against "other," must stop, yesterday!
The normalization of cruelty calls for collective moral outrage and unrelenting repudiation of this administration's assaults on us and on our rights and freedoms. Yes, it takes ALL of us to stand up against this, constantly and consistently.
While many politicians deem the Homeless as merely an aesthetic problem (an unsightly inconvenience at best, deterring business at worst), in truth these vulnerable people are our neighbors and part of our community. The Christ underscored this as one of the two most important precepts originating from the Old Testament: to love one's neighbor as one's self.
"As the dawn of togetherness comes closer, evil forces will try to ensure that this does not dawn through fear."
"Maitreya's Teachings, The Laws of Life", p. 219
Lacking secure housing looms large for many people, for we are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Yet we are in the majority, so why can we not organise more effectively for a different kind of reality? Let's visualize and make manifest a just society!
The great teacher Maitreya states, "There will be no peace without justice, and no justice without sharing."
The WEF contributing philosopher, Yuval Harari spoke about the question of what's to be done with the growing "useless class" as technology rapidly changes, upon us now, and masses of people fall out of the economy. And, articles in recent years talked about intelligence becoming concerned with the rising potential for social unrest in the 2030's. Is this what's to be expected when more masses of people fall out the bottom of the AI economy? Are you next? Are FEMA internment camps and cages the plan for keeping the growing herd of economically-displaced, discontented masses of people in line?
The torches and pitchforks have come not for the opulent who get billions in taxpayer bailouts and subsidies, but for the poorest and most vulnerable while nobody does anything about it. When people are buried in debt, lose their business because they're told they're non-essential, veterans return from endless wars with their heads messed up, can't access medicine that even if you can pay for insurance is delayed and denied, can't get an education, can't afford quadrupled home prices and doubled rents so they're beaten down on the street, don't make enough to access the inflated-priced material necessities, and oligarchs think they have too much if they have a plastic tarp over their heads to shield the sun and rain, so Epstein's pals order from their chauffeur-driven armored limousines masked mercenary stormtrooper squads to cull the unprofitable cattle spilt onto the sidewalks out of a failed economy, and AI mass surveillance watches, predicts and tries to steer or nudge everybody's movements, and all three branches of government are openly stuffing their pockets with billionaire gifts, and two parties are owned by and serve the same big money interests so you can never vote your way out of it, society has fallen apart. They spent the past 25 years dismantling the Bill of Rights and Constitution just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of WE the People.
What happens to people's pets when they are attacked and disappeared? There are homeless veterans here living in the woods with service dogs. Do they go to the kill shelters too? I've never seen so many homeless people here. There's a youtube channel with nearly a million subscribers where the guy teaches people how to survive living in their car, looking for gig work, defecating into a coffee can and bathing with a squirt bottle. Sign of the times.
People don't even have a party that represents them anymore. During the campaign, there were people lined up outside soup kitchens with trump hats, shirts and bumper stickers, thinking that was their great hope.
I have never felt hate before like I feel it now for this administration. I know that Marianne educates us on love, and praying for our enemies, but damn that is hard.
The Power of Compassionate Witnessing! Many actors on the world stage and many parts of self in Psyche are not witnessed compassionately. Our body selves experience life and can't break free of patterns that distort, neglect, ignore, deny, abandon and mistreat our core being, unless witnessed compassionately.
Wait, do you really believe all this just magically started with the current administration? Or that there wasn't a problem that wasn't being addressed before now?
The homeless as if they just began during this administration! What has the government been doing during he last few decades. And California leads the pack.And the crime in these cities is deplorable. Oakland I know about, nobody wants to live in that city. It’s unsafe. Again Califirnia where the Governor hide the homeless for a foreign dignitary visitor.
It’ just does no good to keep the blame game. In stead there needs to be more constructive criticism and discussion.
No. No one is saying the homeless issue began during this administration. However, Trump's second term began with an historically massive heist of taxpayer funds via the gutting of federal agencies and impounding of funds appropriated by congress to help each state address this and other pressing issues. We're talking about billions in taxpayer funding impounded and redirected to fund the Republicans' "Bill Beautiful Betrayal" bill and whatever else Trump wants to spend it on. I remind, these are OUR tax dollars, not the government's. The act of redirecting these funds on his own volition is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. As though that weren't enough, we've had to foot the bill for his military birthday parade, golf and sports events outings, trip to Scotland to open another Trump golf course, $400 million "gift" (plane) from Qatar--God only knows what the Qatar government got in exchange for this, etc. Just recently, $934 million in defense funds that were earmarked to update/maintain our decades-old nuclear silos throughout the country were redirected by his DOD to refurbish Trump's $400 million plane. Again, billions and billions of OUR tax dollars to spend however Trump pleases. So, tell me. Do you think at least $1 billion of those tax dollars might help with homeless crisis?? Personally, Trump and his cronies belong in jail right now.
Why can’t we institute a program that parallels why’s we do health care - govt paid premiums and then as the family’s income increases any shortfalls are reconciled through their tax returns
This is so wrong!
I was walking in Adams Morgan, a vibrant neighborhood, last week with my daughter and we saw a young African American man who was convulsing and vomiting on the ground. This was at 8:00 in the evening and there were lots of people walking past this man. One other woman called 911 with me. People are checked out and don’t want to see this.
I believe that this is part of the problem of the normalization of the heartlessness that we see.
Agreed. The normalization of heartlessness will not stand so long as we counter it just like you and that other lady did. Thank you so much for calling 911.
Thank you soooo much!!! What a powerful post. Early on Jesse said something really interesting re: homeownership being seen as a device for wealth building. My house is almost paid for now. I am so grateful. I could not afford to buy my own house if I were in the market today. My small, bucolic, artsy, Oregon wine country home has become unaffordable for so many working people. We came here after we got priced out of Portland where we had been active, contributing members of our community. I like your phrase "amoral capitalism," Marianne. Making a.profit does not mean the impoverishment of workers. This heartless fascism against "other," must stop, yesterday!
The normalization of cruelty calls for collective moral outrage and unrelenting repudiation of this administration's assaults on us and on our rights and freedoms. Yes, it takes ALL of us to stand up against this, constantly and consistently.
While many politicians deem the Homeless as merely an aesthetic problem (an unsightly inconvenience at best, deterring business at worst), in truth these vulnerable people are our neighbors and part of our community. The Christ underscored this as one of the two most important precepts originating from the Old Testament: to love one's neighbor as one's self.
"As the dawn of togetherness comes closer, evil forces will try to ensure that this does not dawn through fear."
"Maitreya's Teachings, The Laws of Life", p. 219
Lacking secure housing looms large for many people, for we are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Yet we are in the majority, so why can we not organise more effectively for a different kind of reality? Let's visualize and make manifest a just society!
The great teacher Maitreya states, "There will be no peace without justice, and no justice without sharing."
The WEF contributing philosopher, Yuval Harari spoke about the question of what's to be done with the growing "useless class" as technology rapidly changes, upon us now, and masses of people fall out of the economy. And, articles in recent years talked about intelligence becoming concerned with the rising potential for social unrest in the 2030's. Is this what's to be expected when more masses of people fall out the bottom of the AI economy? Are you next? Are FEMA internment camps and cages the plan for keeping the growing herd of economically-displaced, discontented masses of people in line?
The torches and pitchforks have come not for the opulent who get billions in taxpayer bailouts and subsidies, but for the poorest and most vulnerable while nobody does anything about it. When people are buried in debt, lose their business because they're told they're non-essential, veterans return from endless wars with their heads messed up, can't access medicine that even if you can pay for insurance is delayed and denied, can't get an education, can't afford quadrupled home prices and doubled rents so they're beaten down on the street, don't make enough to access the inflated-priced material necessities, and oligarchs think they have too much if they have a plastic tarp over their heads to shield the sun and rain, so Epstein's pals order from their chauffeur-driven armored limousines masked mercenary stormtrooper squads to cull the unprofitable cattle spilt onto the sidewalks out of a failed economy, and AI mass surveillance watches, predicts and tries to steer or nudge everybody's movements, and all three branches of government are openly stuffing their pockets with billionaire gifts, and two parties are owned by and serve the same big money interests so you can never vote your way out of it, society has fallen apart. They spent the past 25 years dismantling the Bill of Rights and Constitution just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of WE the People.
What happens to people's pets when they are attacked and disappeared? There are homeless veterans here living in the woods with service dogs. Do they go to the kill shelters too? I've never seen so many homeless people here. There's a youtube channel with nearly a million subscribers where the guy teaches people how to survive living in their car, looking for gig work, defecating into a coffee can and bathing with a squirt bottle. Sign of the times.
People don't even have a party that represents them anymore. During the campaign, there were people lined up outside soup kitchens with trump hats, shirts and bumper stickers, thinking that was their great hope.
I have never felt hate before like I feel it now for this administration. I know that Marianne educates us on love, and praying for our enemies, but damn that is hard.
i appreciate your honesty, Mary. i've been calling for Grace, because Grace doesn't have to be earned or believed in to disarm the hater in me.
My latest name for him is Cruel T. It fits.
I joined the above-mentioned campaign and wrote Congress.
The Power of Compassionate Witnessing! Many actors on the world stage and many parts of self in Psyche are not witnessed compassionately. Our body selves experience life and can't break free of patterns that distort, neglect, ignore, deny, abandon and mistreat our core being, unless witnessed compassionately.
Wait, do you really believe all this just magically started with the current administration? Or that there wasn't a problem that wasn't being addressed before now?
The homeless as if they just began during this administration! What has the government been doing during he last few decades. And California leads the pack.And the crime in these cities is deplorable. Oakland I know about, nobody wants to live in that city. It’s unsafe. Again Califirnia where the Governor hide the homeless for a foreign dignitary visitor.
It’ just does no good to keep the blame game. In stead there needs to be more constructive criticism and discussion.
Just please just stop the blame game
No. No one is saying the homeless issue began during this administration. However, Trump's second term began with an historically massive heist of taxpayer funds via the gutting of federal agencies and impounding of funds appropriated by congress to help each state address this and other pressing issues. We're talking about billions in taxpayer funding impounded and redirected to fund the Republicans' "Bill Beautiful Betrayal" bill and whatever else Trump wants to spend it on. I remind, these are OUR tax dollars, not the government's. The act of redirecting these funds on his own volition is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. As though that weren't enough, we've had to foot the bill for his military birthday parade, golf and sports events outings, trip to Scotland to open another Trump golf course, $400 million "gift" (plane) from Qatar--God only knows what the Qatar government got in exchange for this, etc. Just recently, $934 million in defense funds that were earmarked to update/maintain our decades-old nuclear silos throughout the country were redirected by his DOD to refurbish Trump's $400 million plane. Again, billions and billions of OUR tax dollars to spend however Trump pleases. So, tell me. Do you think at least $1 billion of those tax dollars might help with homeless crisis?? Personally, Trump and his cronies belong in jail right now.
How do you see it discussed, Gordon? i see it discussed in the presence of compassionate witnessing.
Why can’t we institute a program that parallels why’s we do health care - govt paid premiums and then as the family’s income increases any shortfalls are reconciled through their tax returns
I don't see information about a Bill to confront and counter this particular iteration of horrific abuse. Did I miss something?
Trump thinks he is the best, smartest., the owner of global power; he is none
of these .
Thank you for link to Housing Not Handcuffs. Grateful