America Has Already Lost the War in Iran - John Pavlovitz

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3. The weak delight in harming the weaker and powerless.

Women, children, immigrants, minorities, LBGTQ+, you name it.

These are weak, empty people. They seem to take special delight in harming children.

Of course, they de-humanize victims, in their sick, diabolical thinking.

How to deal with them? Hearts and minds? They are frozen and closed.

Here's how.
Using racism as a placeholder for all the inhumanity above,

In an early post, I quoted Ibram X. Kendi.

https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810

This is from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.

Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.