{"id":843,"date":"2020-10-25T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/?p=843"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T22:43:01","slug":"the-imperative-need-to-share-our-despair-with-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/the-imperative-need-to-share-our-despair-with-one-another\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imperative Need To Share Our Despair With One Another"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/despair3-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-846\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/despair3-edited.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/despair3-edited-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I watched this video, I knew I needed to write a comment that might help ease her obvious pain. In doing so, it helped me understand the need that many of us have had to share our despair in the era of trump. Unlike his supporters, we don&#8217;t cry over being denied a Frappucino or not being allowed in Walmart. We cry and share our despair in an attempt to comprehend a hate-filled America that is fairly incomprehensible these days, and help one another find our way through this darkness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing this with her permission. My response is below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\r\n    <div>        \r\n    <video id=\"plyr69d9d8405eed9\" controls class=\"easy-video-player\">\r\n       <source src=\"http:\/\/www.kevware.com\/media\/despair.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/>\r\n    <\/video>\r\n    <\/div>    <script>\r\n        const evplayerplyr69d9d8405eed9 = new Plyr(document.getElementById('plyr69d9d8405eed9'));\r\n        evplayerplyr69d9d8405eed9.ratio = '16:9';\r\n        evplayerplyr69d9d8405eed9.iconUrl = 'https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/plugins\/easy-video-player\/lib\/plyr.svg';\r\n        evplayerplyr69d9d8405eed9.blankVideo = 'https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-content\/plugins\/easy-video-player\/lib\/blank.mp4';  \r\n    <\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>My comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Watching this reminded me why I share what I do on Twitter, Facebook, and my own blog.<br>I&#8217;m not trying to convert anyone, because that&#8217;s not going to happen. And I&#8217;m not trying to preach to the choir, because there&#8217;s no point in doing so. The point of why we (you, me, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/johnpavlovitz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Pavlovitz<\/a> and many others) post these things is that it&#8217;s our means of coping with an America that makes little sense to us.<br>With respect to the people in that caravan you described, their America is one of hatred for others and a presumed greatness because of their racial heritage. Or it&#8217;s a presumed greatness because of a fictitious notion that because the stock market is doing well, that means we&#8217;re all doing well (even if they have nary a single stock of which to speak). Their America cares about nothing other than the desire that they do better than the &#8216;other&#8217; guy; whatever &#8216;other&#8217; means to them.<br>That doesn&#8217;t make me sad.<br>Like me and many others, your tears aren&#8217;t from sadness at not getting our way. They&#8217;re tears borne out of a frustration that this just CAN&#8217;T be the America we were brought up to believe in: an America filled with so much hatred for so many fellow Americans, and an incomprehensible need to create legislation based on that hate.<br>It&#8217;s not just incomprehensible, it&#8217;s also gut-wrenching.<br>If Biden doesn&#8217;t win, I believe we will truly be at &#8220;the end times&#8221; for this American experiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I watched this video, I knew I needed to write a comment that might help ease her obvious pain. In doing so, it helped me understand the need that many of us have had to share our despair in the era of trump. Unlike his supporters, we don&#8217;t cry over being denied a Frappucino &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/the-imperative-need-to-share-our-despair-with-one-another\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,3,17,11],"tags":[121],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-843","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-2020-election","9":"category-general-stuff","10":"category-national-politics","11":"category-political-stuff","12":"post_tag-despair"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}