Ponderous Simplicity

Michael Crichton

If I can make you afraid that gay people are out to destroy families…

If I can make you afraid a transgender person isn’t mentally sound and has been 

brainwashed…

If I can make you afraid those seeking abortions are selfish and want to kill babies…

If I can make you afraid that critical race theory is used to indoctrinate your children…

If I can make you afraid that illegal immigrants are being used to take over your country…

If I can make you afraid that other races are trying to steal your national identity…

If I can make you afraid that you cannot protect yourself without your guns…

Then I can control you

If we stop and think for a minute, can we see that the true “enemy” of this nation isn’t the gays, transgendered, immigrants, the woman who got an abortion, someone who teaches CRT, and seeks for gun control…

It is our politicians who use differences to engender fear in order to stay in power. Who will say anything and everything in order to generate fear so that we think we must rely on them to “save” us and our nation.

The truth is, gay people are just trying to do the best they can like everyone else. They may struggle to understand their feelings and at some point in their life, if not currently, they struggle with self-loathing and a sense of helplessness or hopelessness. 

Can we focus on those things that are truly destroying families? 

• Child Abuse

• Infidelity

• Sex Trafficking

• Drug or Substance Abuse

• Pornography Addiction

The truth is, transgender people struggle to understand their identity and perhaps the body they have. Their feelings have nothing to do with whether they played certain sports as a kid or acted like a “tom-boy”. They may feel trapped in a body that just doesn’t feel right but not because someone else told them so.  

The truth is, abortion is an extremely complicated issue. Have you ever talked with a woman that had an abortion? The huge majority spent agonizing hours, days, or weeks trying to make the decision. Some felt so trapped by life or the circumstances they found themselves in that it seemed there was no other option. Extreme desperation leads to difficult choices - choices we think we would never make when we are in place of comfort. 

The truth is, critical race theory seeks to help us recognize and acknowledge the atrocities of the past that were based on race. And that social structures exist that continue to perpetuate racism. My identity isn’t less or threatened when I acknowledge and seek to do what I can to change those societal structures.

The truth is, the comfort in America makes us blind to the difficulties many face in other countries and nations. Our country was built on people’s desire for something better or different. With a long and complicated and perhaps impossible process for some, trying a different way seems the only option for perhaps a better, safer life.

The truth is, history clearly shows us what can happen when a nationality/race seeks supremacy. The ability of the everyday person to ignore or even participate in the killing of their neighbor in horrific and savage ways. That our identity as a human being should be primary over all, allowing space for different races and identities that do not truly threaten our identity. 

The truth is, guns kill people in the hands of other people. Guns can play an important role in our democracy, but how many of us truly can use that weapon responsibly? That in a truly dangerous time have had enough practice and training to use it effectively and correctly? Can we truly say that in our country gun ownership in many ways hasn’t simply become some sort of statement without real responsibility or understanding of their power and our ability to use that power?

The truth is, the more we listen to politicians and those in power, the less we are able to clearly and distinctly see others as human beings -