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 Not gonna lie, the respite is a welcomed one for me, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I welcome the calm and the going about his work quietly making about policy rather than self. I welcome the absence of constant antagonism, lying, distortion, bragadociousness and the infantile brand of credit taking and blame avoidance. I welcome respite from practically everything Trump brought to the post. 

More confrontational, profane, unhinged, rude, and entitled acting than ever, and are proud of and defensive of their awful behavior. Why? Is this supposed to be part of that America being "great?" Is that your greatness? It never was before, so why is it framed as going back to a period of greatness? We were only great when we wereaming life better for a majority of citizens. We're definitely not doing that now. Many of our grandparents would be shocked and appalled by the behavior and by what we've undone in such a brief period of time.

 We wake up ready to find something wrong, something to pick at or poke, something to disagree with. And we can't wait to post it somewhere, opine, present our stance, hoping our words will get air. Seeking viralty, or seeking confrontation. Every. damn. day we do this.

 Probably the best first step in healing and achieving peace is for us to stop regarding one another as blocs or stereotypes and responding accordingly. We create so much enmity and problems for ourselves when we blame someone or hold them responsible for the sins of another. And I'm talking about anyone. Almost all of us do it, and it's wrong, it's so so damaging. Because when you do that to someone, they begin to smolder. The unfairness if it causes them to regard you in the same manner and paint people with a broad stroke who happen to look like you or have something identifiable in common with you.

 There's something that I think you may be missing here. When you talk about these people who ride you so much people who you describe as being woke or activists like black lives matter, all you're really talking about if people who are passionate to a degree where there who was that word single-minded very single-minded and focus on an issue to the point where they're not really rational. They may be actually taking their pent up intense anchor out on people who shouldn't be targets because they have just lost themselves. They do things with abandon and recklessly. But what I think you don't understand is that that's exactly what you have done and then. You are the other side of that coin. Just like you these are people are fighting what they believe is an existential threat. You're convinced you and a certain way of life is under attack and you can easily be convinced of a certain enemy. That's what makes fear dangerous, that you can be easily mamipula...

 I think it would be a really good idea if when things happen let's say things happen in the news it's some kind of event and it gets reported and immediately everybody starts weighing in on it. What if we didn't weigh in on everything as if it was our responsibility or duty to do so? What if every time we heard something the first thing that we did was stop listen gather all the necessary information and pertinent facts and then ask ourselves is this my concern. And we should ask ourselves is it necessary is my input warranted is my input wanted did the person who this actually concerned ask for or need my assistance or my support? And if the answer is no then why can't we just say nothing because say nothing can actually be more productive than saying something. And another thing I think that we need to get out of our heads this notion that we have some kind of a duty to inform or make other people aware things. Because so often we don't even know what we're t...

 Makes it such that it's very easy to stay in a negative and reactive state of mind. As soon as you see something, your fingers start flying and typically what comes out is not processed or considered, which means it often doesn't reflect your best or highest self, and you've got everyone doing that. It's a freeforall. It's a daily regimen of negativity, really. And it's sooo easy to get pulled back into even when you realize this and pull back. The solution is to be very conscientious about feeding your brain a different kind of daily diet, a diet of positive thoughts. It's the only way at this point. Talk here about the 40% of American adults who would rather give up a car, TV, or their pet than social media. That's crazy, and it really reflects our addiction to responding in the way we do to one another. We don't want to kick this habit. That doesn't bode well for our near future as a country or a people. I actually think what you and I are do...