To continuously further our spiritual awakening, it’s imperative we wake up to what manipulates us. 

If not, we risk being manipulated by agenda’s that do not serve us or others.

One of the biggest tools used to manipulate the public is blind patriotism.

Patriotism itself is a beautiful thing. 

It represents our shared hopes and beliefs in meaningful values.

It’s a shared conviction that our country operates in accordance with these proclaimed hopes and values.

All of this works when our behavior as a country is measured against those values.

It works when we willingly course correct any behavior that’s fallen out of alignment with our values.

It cannot work if the very act of determining if our behavior matches our values is deemed unpatriotic.

This is when blind patriotism becomes a dangerous tool of manipulation to keep people from looking at discrepancies in our country’s behavior.

If someone expresses a grievance and the expression is deemed “unpatriotic”, and you can keep the populace outraged over what has been deemed “unpatriotic”, you can keep people blind to the grievance itself.

So grievances go unheard. Unmeasured against our values. Unbelieved. And …

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