Choosing to reject fear-based messaging

[Ritterskoop]

That's it. The title. I am choosing to reject fear-based messaging, from parties, from candidates, from the TV.

I don't spend much time online except reading sports things for work, and then on Reddit, where things are sorted by topic, so I can just stick to cats and r/aww. If I had an account anywhere else, I would have deactivated it or paused it.

We have all been programmed to various degrees by our culture, and we can reject a lot of it. We can choose to make choices based on the good we want to do in the world, and to not have it be about what makes us afraid.

I am absolutely not saying one group or another makes goodness more likely. That would be buying in to the fear narrative. Every single one of us has the potential to be good and to do good.

[Beebs52]

Unfortunately, good is not easily defined.

[Beebs52]

But, I understand the choice you're making. I am so tired of seeing commercials on tv by both sides. It's like lalalala....

[Beebs52]

And, if you're registered for a particular party the texts are brutal. Block number, block number etc

[Ritterskoop]

I'm registered unaffiliated, so I get it all, but I've heard they can see when you vote, and they will give up, so I'm hoping the messaging slows down now that I have already voted.

The joys of living in a swing state.