Trying to make the world a better place

I always see political/societal choices lacking empathy for those involved, and can't stop thinking do these people care for anyone, but themselves? Well I'm here to promote Empathy as best I can. I hope it will change a few minds, or at the least give people food for thought. Thank you for visiting.

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Corruption

We, as a country, are lacking empathy on a massive scale. We have corporation owners that hold so much money, that when they disagree with something objectively helpful to the Earth's longevity, they flood as much money in as necessary to save their profit margins. It's sickening. I'm sorry, but putting excess millions into an account will NEVER be more important than saving solving ecological problems. These corporations are speeding up the decay of the planet exponentially, and quite frankly need to be taxed at a rate that's porportionate to the amount of profit made. However, the only way to insure that occurs is to vote for the correct senators/congressmen that won't be as subjected to corruption.

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Willful Ignorance/Voting

Imagine you were sitting on a park bench, when suddenly you see a man walk up to another man and attempt to rob him. It is time to make a decision. You could employ the John Mulaney approach of,

"I was over on the bench."

However, seeing that man being robbed and purposefully deciding not to intervene makes you complicit in that man's robbery. Now, I'm not disparaging John over a comedy show, but the underlying point remains true. We can't stand around and expect something to happen, we must take charge.

This belief is why we must take action in regards to politics. We can not stand by idly and watch our democracy fall before our very eyes. Swing state voters, and seemingly perpetually red states have started to see this reality. They have begun to elect democratic officals in states where it would seem impossible. We must continue to fight corrupt politicians like Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, Lindsay Graham, Rudy Giuliani, and the ringleader himself Trump.

The Senate impeachment vote will be a day that goes down in history. A day that either marks every corrupt senator, or a day that our democracy stood strong against the threat of tyrannicism. I hope for the latter, however if the corrupt senators feel like ousting themselves then it is up to us to vote them out in the next election. We must do what is in the best interest of the country. Do not let Russia have the last laugh.

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Greta Thunburg

If you are attacking a young girl, because she doesn't want the world to become uninhabitable to humans. You need to reevaluate your position. She isn't a puppet she's a scared girl who doesn't want life as we know it to die out. Get it through your thick skulls teens have valid information. We care about politics, and when the time comes that today's youth holds the power of office we're not going to be making decisions in favor of immaturity, and greed. We are going to make compassionate, moral, and empathetic decisions.

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Being, "Savage"

When someone opens up to you about a sensitive subject and you get the urge to make a mean joke, that's one way of acting "savage." A lot of people need to realize that acting this way promotes negativity and anger. Especially in politics, I see channels on youtube, and fake news webpages that have titles like, "Liberals get owned at Congressional hearing," or "Democrats cry over debate." These titles are appealing to immaturity, and apathy. They don't want to hear the arguement, they want to see people being made upset for caring about societal/political/ecological issues. Let's just take a second to think of the word itself, savage, to be a savage is to act in a non-civil, non-empathetic manner and at its root means to be animalistic. People should not be idolizing this behavior. It stems from the Capitalistic system that promotes obtaining money before addressing morality. People are born with empathy and generally have the tendency to do good where they can. Let's try to have a little more care and respect for the people around us. We need it as a society.

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Abortion

Abortion is a hard concept for some people to discuss, and even harder for some to choose. It is a process that is damaging to the human body, and can mess with your hormones depending on which method of abortion you choose. However, it is on each individual whether or not abortion suits their needs, be it religious, hormonal, etc. NOBODY gets to decide other than the woman deciding. To do so is wrong as the supreme court decision has stated before. (Roe vs. Wade) The six week policy, some states use as a way to outlaw abortion while under the camouflage of allowing it, is absolutely unfair. Imagine you are unaware of your pregnancy, in a financially unstable situation and are unable to feed another mouth. Then upon learning about your pregnancy in the second month (first trimester) the government steps in an says, sorry you didn't catch your pregnancy in the first month and a half and must now carry to term or be arrested. Also you may not go to another state, and have an abortion there because when you come back you will be arrested. Most people have no idea they are pregnant until about two months in. Occurances like this happen all the time, and to throw someone in jail for making sure they don't subject a potential child to a horrible living situation, is plain wrong. If you are against abortion and your religion is against abortion so be it, but you do not get to make decisions for anyone, but yourself.

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Global Warming

The Amazon is on FIRE. The carbon battling, oxygen producing, life essentials, (known as trees), are disintegrating. If that occurs 20% of the Earth oxygen will disappear. How are people continuing to allow this to occur!?! It's really not that hard to stop. It just requires putting our instant gratification on hold, and realizing that human consumption is vastly out of proportion with what mother nature can provide for us. Think about the children, familes, and animals that will be killed when the temperature rises only a couple of Celsius. If people don't start rising up and taking this issue into their own hands we are looking at the possible extiction of the human race. That isn't hyperbole it's the most disgrundling fact that I've heard in my lifetime. Being "savage," and self-centered is the reason we are in this position in the first place. It's time for some critical thinking, and empathy about what we are going to go in the face of adversity. Will we change for the better, or will we die out? It's up to us to decide.

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I think a lot of people are forgetting that empathy is one of the things that makes humans human. The ability to feel for someone else almost seems forgotten by most in today's age. When people can't feed their children, do billionaires bat an eye? When refugees with nowhere to go are pleading for assistance because they don't want to be murdered, how can people deny them? When P.O.C. are being gunned down in obviously one sided cases (with body cam videos no less), how are some people's (alllivesmatter) first response to argue with them? When gas companies refuse to switch to clean energy just because they don't want to lose money, they are causing future generations to suffer consequences they have no control over. Do they not even care about their own sons and daughters? It's time for the people to be reminded that empathy is one of the most important human traits we possess. Without it we would fall into anarchy.