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Empowering Integrity

Verbal microaggressions [You are a liar!] neglect non-violent humanity as macroaggressions [uninvited explosions with intent to kill], rather far beyond verbal bullying, physically retaliate against abusive inhumanity, seldom too fastidious about recognizing collateral damage to people pets plants planet Earth. Critical mistrust [how does this defend democracy?] may yet remain mindful of Golden Rules, active hope for our own and Other's cooperatively-owned transparent vulnerable healthy future In a wide and deep in-between room estate State bounded by blind trust unearned by prior relationship experience [forgiving kleptocracy while continuing to empower future theft] are more typically associated with learned win/win memories in prior associated categories of relationship [I suppose censure could be merciful shaming]-- these become compassionate benefits, compromised by doubt [requiring apology to global victims suffering from narcissistic abuse of climate-healing powers]. But self-promoting oligarchy leads more robustly toward active distrust of those who dissonantly and consistently play win/lose [with well-being, health, and universal prosperity stipulated goals of democratic constitutions] apparently too comfortable with their own retributive disempowering addictions to see and hear and smell and taste ecological and theological win/win health benefits of restoring interdependent peace For liberal love resilience and conserving resonance through cooperatively co-invested justice-- Non-violently impeaching win/lose compromises against democracy's multicultural health benefits without lose/lose micro- and macro-aggressive doubt about what behaviors support healthier democracy and what responses further feed pathological plutocracy.

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