Decency
Descending the escalator June 15, 2016 it began. Permission given to open the gates revealing our true selves. Word by demeaning word and lie by lie here we are today.
Decency be damned. Don’t tread on me.
A place that some of us sensed, some of us knew, many dreaded, others celebrated. Celebrated because they could now finally fully exhibit their true selves. Their fears and those feelings that they had kept to themselves until that permission was granted.
Decency doesn’t negate what one might think it does. It is not necessary to be safe or comfortable. You can still believe that people certain people should be deported, criminals. You can believe that your religion is the only religion, it is not. You can believe that everyone should do as you do, they should not. Decency is the part that stops you from acting on any of those beliefs that directly adversely impact another human for no legal, legitimate reason.
If properly maintained and balanced, justice will not let any of these fears you hold adversely impact you. However, actions based on those fears and lies absent of decency, deport innocent people, kill or try to kill, those in opposition. And creates unconstitutional laws and policies void of decency or justice by dehumanizing already disenfranchised individuals who are doing their best to create a good and safe life for themselves and their family. Lives that essentially, have had no adverse impact on you or me. Yet some have been convinced otherwise because of weakness and carelessness.
A good and safe life, just like the one that you hope for that for the most part before a few years ago had no real risk of being extinguished. Yet you took the word of someone with little knowledge of the human condition or spirit validate your fears. Validating them with unfounded, false stories that have no foundation of truth but are based in hateful vindication.
Decency is the state or quality of being decent. Behavior that is good, moral and acceptable in any society. When you want someone to be decent towards you, what does that mean? How or what do they say or not say? What has being decent done for you? What has the opposite done for you?