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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Fri Sep 17, 2021, 10:08 PM Sep 2021

To accept the things we cannot change ... [View all]

It is now abundantly clear that some of our fellow citizens have lost all touch with reality.

They continue to believe that the 2020 election was wrought with fraud, despite the fact that not a single iota of proof thereof has been profferred, and that those who declared they have such proof have failed to produce it.

They persist in the belief that Covid is a politically-driven hoax, and that vaccines are ineffective - despite the fact that hospitals are overwhelmed with the sick-and-dying who are unvaccinated, and their own anti-vax media "heroes" are dropping like flies.

They are willing to make public spectacles of themselves by physically attacking anyone who refuses to embrace their insanity, knowing that they could lose their own livelihood as a result of their behaviour.

Despite any effort by the sane among us to inform them, educate them, cajole them into seeing reason, they have decided that suicide-by-stupidity is preferable to admitting they've been "had" by the politicians who count on one last financial contribution before yet another constituent dies.

We have to accept what cannot be changed, and simply move on without those who are beyond our reach - drowning men who refuse to latch onto the lifejackets thrown their way, people who'd rather be swallowed by the sea than be rescued before it's too late.

This is the reality we face, as sad as that reality may be. Those who are against the survival of our citizens and our democracy are our enemies - and they must be treated accordingly.

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