The quote from Arendt about seeing the death of human empathy as a precursor to worse is downright chilling and eye opening. Thank you for continuing to speak so bravely and articulately.
Ah yes, the empire is crumbling, and the tyrants are printing laws faster than we can light incense.
This isn't just ICE with a raise. It's the transformation of a government agency into a state-sponsored panic attack. Medicaid gutted, ICE militarized, and detention camps rising like mushrooms in the swamp. And still people ask, “How did we get here?” as if the road wasn't paved with cruelty, cowardice, and campaign merch.
But here’s the holy punchline. The real battlefield isn't out there. It’s within. The war is being fought in the quiet chambers of your own conscience. This regime knows it cannot kill everyone, so it tries to kill empathy. If you stop feeling, you stop fighting. If you stop loving, you become useful to them.
So don't just resist. Remember. Remember that every empire falls when its people remember their hearts. When love becomes action, not just a Hallmark card. When kindness refuses to be rebranded as weakness.
It's an inside job because they can't dismantle your soul unless you hand them the keys.
God bless you, Marianne! You were born for such a time as this. You are like Deborah in the Old Testament and a new prophet. Thank you so much for speaking truth and bringing hope and inspiring courage. I am grateful for you and so many others who are speaking truth and acting courageously at this critical time.
Thank you, Marianne. I’m right here — eyes wide, spirit steady… even if sometimes frozen, aghast at the wickedness, brutality, and sheer lack of humanity people are being dealt… in AMERICA.
With all our flaws and wounds that still needing healing i still truly believed in the goodness — even the GREATNESS at times — of the United States.
What a pity.
Our biggest mistake? Thinking we’d evolved enough to trust tgat ALL AMERICANS shared:
A BASIC APPRECIATION OF HUMAN DECENCY & A COLLECTIVE REVERENCE FOR LIFE.
Ha. What the hell was I thinking?
This ICE monstrosity, the Medicaid massacre, the Constitution twisted to shield tyrants while gutting the people… it’s pure oligarch rot. Wickedness beyond belief.
And how is it that the Constitution is being used as the basis of protecting some "presidential authority" while it's being shredded at the same motha duck plucking time???
USING IT WHILE A-DAMNED-BUSING IT!
But thank you, Lighthouse. We hear your pristine Voice cutting through the muck. YOU INSPIRE US TO...
BREATHE.
BE.
We will NOT flinch. We will NOT surrender our Humanity.
This is our Responsibility: to meet this vile hour with the fiercest LOVE, the deepest TRUTH, the highest COURAGE we’ve got.
And we gon do just that — damn it!
While they feed their kids to the beast, we’ll fight to save ours… and everybody else’s too.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING YOUR LIGHT SHINING, MARIANNE.
Marianne: What would you have the Democrats do to show the fighting spirit and the appropriate resistance to what is taking place? I feel that they are just stuck in the civility and propriety of a bygone era + pleasing their donors and don't see the benefit of going on retreat, inviting political analysts that can speak to new strategy and skills and help them get coordinated. Why haven't they done this? It seems to obviously needed! They need to do this every week and ingest new ideas and concepts for how to get us out of this disasterous mess.
As to a lack of empathy, it's a feedback loop of psychopathy and a serotonin rush that it's all succeeding. Musk appropriates and misinterprets Paul Bloom's book like he appropriates lots of books to his own ends. Musk also has Asperger's which points generally to his neurodivergence, and perhaps everything he does is a compensation for it. Same with Trump. They're both misfits (aren't we all in some way/) As to anger, perhaps its something lefties don't do (at least in the right way) "Someone who could never get angry would be the perfect victim. Anger can also be a prod to moral behavior more generally; many great moral heroes—Martin Luther King, Jr., for instance—have been individuals who let themselves get angry at situations that others were indifferent to." More: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/paul-bloom-against-empathy/
What a crock of rambling Marxist spew ! Pompous whining ideology à la Joy Reid AND Rosie O’Donnell should receive the same finality : CANCEL, forget and sweep under the rug of ignoble non-achievers who mix up history with current events. Non-meritorious slackers of the ilk who dropped this article can only draw their "acclaim" from those of the same feather. Like flies on a dung heap.
ICE was born out of 9-11, neither 9-11 or ICE should have ever happened. When it did, it happened overnight…ICE agents were in airports overnight….this all began a long time ago… everyone’s focus is on Trump. We shouldn’t call out his name…we should be replacing the word Trump with ‘Washington DC’ or ‘DC’ or at least calling out the collective…
This is so good Marianne. Spot on. Exactly the message and call to action for these times.
The quote from Arendt about seeing the death of human empathy as a precursor to worse is downright chilling and eye opening. Thank you for continuing to speak so bravely and articulately.
Bravo
Ah yes, the empire is crumbling, and the tyrants are printing laws faster than we can light incense.
This isn't just ICE with a raise. It's the transformation of a government agency into a state-sponsored panic attack. Medicaid gutted, ICE militarized, and detention camps rising like mushrooms in the swamp. And still people ask, “How did we get here?” as if the road wasn't paved with cruelty, cowardice, and campaign merch.
But here’s the holy punchline. The real battlefield isn't out there. It’s within. The war is being fought in the quiet chambers of your own conscience. This regime knows it cannot kill everyone, so it tries to kill empathy. If you stop feeling, you stop fighting. If you stop loving, you become useful to them.
So don't just resist. Remember. Remember that every empire falls when its people remember their hearts. When love becomes action, not just a Hallmark card. When kindness refuses to be rebranded as weakness.
It's an inside job because they can't dismantle your soul unless you hand them the keys.
God bless you, Marianne! You were born for such a time as this. You are like Deborah in the Old Testament and a new prophet. Thank you so much for speaking truth and bringing hope and inspiring courage. I am grateful for you and so many others who are speaking truth and acting courageously at this critical time.
Indeed… 🙏
Thank you, Marianne. I’m right here — eyes wide, spirit steady… even if sometimes frozen, aghast at the wickedness, brutality, and sheer lack of humanity people are being dealt… in AMERICA.
With all our flaws and wounds that still needing healing i still truly believed in the goodness — even the GREATNESS at times — of the United States.
What a pity.
Our biggest mistake? Thinking we’d evolved enough to trust tgat ALL AMERICANS shared:
A BASIC APPRECIATION OF HUMAN DECENCY & A COLLECTIVE REVERENCE FOR LIFE.
Ha. What the hell was I thinking?
This ICE monstrosity, the Medicaid massacre, the Constitution twisted to shield tyrants while gutting the people… it’s pure oligarch rot. Wickedness beyond belief.
And how is it that the Constitution is being used as the basis of protecting some "presidential authority" while it's being shredded at the same motha duck plucking time???
USING IT WHILE A-DAMNED-BUSING IT!
But thank you, Lighthouse. We hear your pristine Voice cutting through the muck. YOU INSPIRE US TO...
BREATHE.
BE.
We will NOT flinch. We will NOT surrender our Humanity.
This is our Responsibility: to meet this vile hour with the fiercest LOVE, the deepest TRUTH, the highest COURAGE we’ve got.
And we gon do just that — damn it!
While they feed their kids to the beast, we’ll fight to save ours… and everybody else’s too.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING YOUR LIGHT SHINING, MARIANNE.
God Bless You 🙌
#StayHuman #NeverBow #RiseUp
#BiGBeauTiFuLPRoTeST 🐥🇺🇲🐣
Marianne: What would you have the Democrats do to show the fighting spirit and the appropriate resistance to what is taking place? I feel that they are just stuck in the civility and propriety of a bygone era + pleasing their donors and don't see the benefit of going on retreat, inviting political analysts that can speak to new strategy and skills and help them get coordinated. Why haven't they done this? It seems to obviously needed! They need to do this every week and ingest new ideas and concepts for how to get us out of this disasterous mess.
As to a lack of empathy, it's a feedback loop of psychopathy and a serotonin rush that it's all succeeding. Musk appropriates and misinterprets Paul Bloom's book like he appropriates lots of books to his own ends. Musk also has Asperger's which points generally to his neurodivergence, and perhaps everything he does is a compensation for it. Same with Trump. They're both misfits (aren't we all in some way/) As to anger, perhaps its something lefties don't do (at least in the right way) "Someone who could never get angry would be the perfect victim. Anger can also be a prod to moral behavior more generally; many great moral heroes—Martin Luther King, Jr., for instance—have been individuals who let themselves get angry at situations that others were indifferent to." More: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/paul-bloom-against-empathy/
What a crock of rambling Marxist spew ! Pompous whining ideology à la Joy Reid AND Rosie O’Donnell should receive the same finality : CANCEL, forget and sweep under the rug of ignoble non-achievers who mix up history with current events. Non-meritorious slackers of the ilk who dropped this article can only draw their "acclaim" from those of the same feather. Like flies on a dung heap.
ICE was born out of 9-11, neither 9-11 or ICE should have ever happened. When it did, it happened overnight…ICE agents were in airports overnight….this all began a long time ago… everyone’s focus is on Trump. We shouldn’t call out his name…we should be replacing the word Trump with ‘Washington DC’ or ‘DC’ or at least calling out the collective…
Excellent!… if we each sent to 10 people… that’s a start!… what is happening is horrific!
Didn’t realize it is a private army turned on it’s own citizens by potus2.