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Time for some honesty. For five years now the President has said things and done things that I felt we should not tolerate in a leader of the nation. I used to be quite vocal about it but there was always a pattern in response: that’s not what he said (though I heard him say it).
That’s not what he meant (when his meaning was unambiguous). That’s not what he did (but I’m watching the video and, well, that’s what he did). At some point I brought these things up less because the price for bringing them up was too high in relationships with people I love.
At some point, after so much feedback, it’s not that you doubt your ears or eyes, or your judgment or discernment, but you do wonder—somehow—if you’re being fair or perhaps you’ve developed on innate bias, and you try real hard to see the other side of the coin, grant the doubt.
And now we’ve arrived at this moment: the President asking a Georgia state official to “find” votes for him. I heard him say it and I want to ask his supporters what legitimates that conversation. But I hear their defenses in my head and it’s just not worth the energy to ask.
And so I realize that this is how it happens, this is how discourse founded in reality dies. And how something in a nation dies. And how something in me dies. And it’s not something that I should allow to die. And so I guess I’m just confessing my own brokenness.
And a prayer that all of us would have the courage to start naming realities again and to start waking up from all of this for the sake of my grandchildren.
PS: There are many who see the problem but put aside or off their concern because he grants X or Y. I was taught that we cannot allow things like that to muzzle our concerns. I have been as vocal as I felt I could be without being misinterpreted as partisan but I was less vocal.
I’ll keep taking all of this to those who love me and to the God who loves me and ask for wisdom. Thanks for listening.
