Do you think people even realize they live with it every day?

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Do they even remember what it was like to not live in their world of hypocrisy?

Does it even bother them?

It used to bother me. A lot.

Before I made a conscious decision to live every day with integrity, these questions gnawed at me. I realize sometimes it’s difficult to live with integrity and be true to your core values, if you even have any. I know because I used to not care. One day, I don’t know why or when, it started to bother me. I would say one thing and do another without even blinking an eye. It’s a painful existence once you finally grow up and realize the damage you have caused to yourself and others.

The world we live in swims in hypocrisy. I think it’s fair to say it is drowning in it. Reporters demand accountability from everyone else, but somehow can’t escape their own victimhood whenever they are called out on the very same ethical conundrums they rail against. Politicians are even worse. The current blowup of Eric Swalwell’s career is case in point Exhibit A, but he is far from the only member of congress who is awash in hypocrisy. I will save that for another day.

I don’t really want to write about much today except to concentrate on one point. Let’s start with the prevailing narrative the whole planet seems to be caught up in. Having in mind a large chunk of the world truly believes the Jews are manipulating the most powerful country on earth, as well as the most powerful man in the world, do any of them ever think about what that would entail? Is Donald Trump so pathetic of a man that he can be so easily manipulated? Has that been the American experience of life with Donald Trump up to this point? Is this man so easily manipulated that he would stake the lives of Americans on the demands of Israel and the Jews?

When I listen close to the likes of Megyn Kelly, Glenn Greenwald as well as others on either side of the spectrum, I don’t know if its a lack of awareness, empathy or purposeful ignorance, but if I was to be generous I would offer that blind hatred is clouding their judgement. All of them will criticize Israel and then say something like, “Iran is not an imminent threat to America. This is Israel’s war and they are responsible for dragging us into it. I agree Iran is evil and they can’t have a nuclear weapon, but this is not our business,” or something that goes that way. My question is, which one of them are willing to put themselves in Israel’s shoes? Have they even for a moment considered what it is like to be us?

I’m not making the argument that America should be fighting for us. That’s an American decision they have to make for themselves. What I am saying is let’s take pundits statements at face value and decipher them for a moment. Iran is evil and cannot be allowed to possess........

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