you know, i watched the whole thing because a lot of the stupidness on the internet, thank you, elon, is people saying, did you see the whole thing? i said yeah, i watched it. i watched the whole thing. i watched the dehumanization process, the degradation. but when you got to that part where she went after her as a mom, you questioned her motherhood, regardless of how she came into it, because women, and men, come into parenting in a whole lot of different ways. it just struck such a raw nerve for me, as an adopted child, to think that a margorie taylor greene could look at my mother and say she s not a mother? well, you know, you need to shut the you know what up and step back. because motherhood comes from the heart. it s something you do.
have undermined, corroded, and continues to erode the moral structure, the moral fiber where, as we were discussing, we look at his family and we look at my family, and your family, and we make judgments about it. and we allow that to continue the way it has. and so, yeah, we re going to see more of this, and it s unfortunate that we will, but, again, going back to the point, we have to decide to stand up against it. and i just want to one last point on this, just say directly to margorie taylor greene, you remember that little boy named jesus? well, his daddy was a stepdad. mmm. you re so good. was a step-dad. you re so good. you re so good it s crazy. yup. i hate to make you fool michael steele. thank you so much, nicole.
she was fantastic. she said to me, you know, we love you and we re with you. but it s just a matter of the undermining of people, the undermining of trans kids, the undermining of the other. so i felt like i was taking one for the team. but the vile, homophobic nature of it was pathetic. and the undermining of families was pathetic. we re going to have to deal with the dehumanization point. let me put a pin in that. michael steele put out a tweet i hope i can read without trying. not a biological mother? well, margorie taylor greene, the woman who adopted me, cared for me, raised me, loved me, inspired me, disciplined me, educated me, and at 95, still smiles when i walk in the room, didn t need biology to be my mother. #adoption. michael steele?
Our society is deeply diseased. We must heal these social illnesses. We must mitigate this anomie. We must restore the severed social bonds and integrate the dispossessed back into society. If these social bonds remain ruptured it will guarantee a frightening neofascism. There are very dark forces circling around us. Sooner than we expect, they may have us in their grip.
The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that provide a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and a Christianized fascism becomes.
By Chris Hedges
Original to ScheerPost
Political paralysis is snuffing out what is left of our anemic democracy.