{"id":483,"date":"2017-06-01T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-06-01T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T01:45:36","slug":"kathy-griffith-moral-fiber-and-the-hard-work-of-staying-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/kathy-griffith-moral-fiber-and-the-hard-work-of-staying-sane\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Griffith, Moral Fiber and the Hard Work of Staying Sane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Now is the time when every good citizen is called to stretch their moral fiber, to build their moral strength, and to go high when they go low.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to manage fear and anger when all around us we see and suffer from the abuse of power. It is especially difficult when our representatives in the White House and in Congress betray us on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Gut the EPA? Dismantle our education system? Abandon our commitment to civil rights? Reduce veterans\u2019 benefits? Create non-realities based on \u2018alternative\u2019 facts?<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

All this is in addition to the vile disrespect hurled at both President Obama and Hillary Clinton with impunity. The lynching of effigies, the threats of assassination and hanging by Ted Nugent. Who, when challenged, responded eloquently with \u201cSuck my machine gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

WE CAN\u2019T DESCEND TO THAT LEVEL. We being the Dems, the left, the citizenry, and spiritual communities. None of us can afford to allow that sort of discourse to be normal.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to live in a world where that kind of talk and action are normalized. Lynching is not okay. Assassination is not okay. Threatening either one is not okay. Neither are machine guns in the hands of the public. Neither is mock beheading.<\/p>\n

Kathy Griffith is a funny woman. She went way too far. She expressed vividly and profoundly feelings we struggle with. But we are the gatekeepers of civilization as we know it and we cannot stoop to the level of those whom we oppose or we will become like them and soon there will be no difference between us.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Now is the time when every good citizen is called to stretch their moral fiber, to build their moral strength, and to go high when they go low. It\u2019s hard. It is difficult to manage fear and anger when all around us we see and suffer from the abuse of power. It is especially difficult … Continue reading Kathy Griffith, Moral Fiber and the Hard Work of Staying Sane<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,26,8,23,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}