Over half a million homeless people in America is not a cause, it’s a symptom. A nation’s economy should to the best of our ability set everyone up to win. Yet ours does not. Those who hold the major levers of power don’t even think that would be a good idea. 1/3
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From refusing to tax the very richest to corporate subsidies to absurd military budget, our biggest problem isn’t economic but moral: a willingness to see massive human suffering as an acceptable result of our economy’s driving impulse to give more to those who already have. 2/3
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The only thing that will keep this country from an ultimate descent into societal madness is a massive change of heart.3/3

Aug 27, 2022 · 1:07 PM UTC

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Good luck with changing human nature.
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That is not human nature. It is a perversion of human nature. God created us to love one another. By organizing our societies to do otherwise we are acting against our God-given nature.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” — Jung
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I don’t agree with that first part. Love leads to the *right use* of power. Look at parenting, for example. Good parenting is the ultimate expression of love combined with an appropriate exercise of power.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Well, as I'm sure you know, we need to get money out of politics, which is doable, of course, except that those corrupted by money are unlikely to have a change of heart, and those corrupted, control the levers of power.
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The undue influence of money on our system comes primarily from the Citizens United SCOTUS decision. With different members of the court that would’ve been a different decision. If there had been different presidents that would’ve been different members of the court.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Which is probably why the saying goes "things will get worse before they get better." People are dumb.
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Agreed, we need to look at this through spiritual lenses
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Our Priorities and our values need to change ... How that will happen I don't exactly know ... I guess we need a Miracle!