The Choice is to Either be a Radical or be Radicalized

Every election year we’re told, “This is the most important election year” — but this really is the most important election year in my opinion. Not because of the candidates or their platform, nor because of party politics — but because of how much the energetics of our world has shifted in just the last couple of years (and if you’re highly sensitive, you’ll have noticed another major shift in the last couple weeks where it just feels like things are different, that you’re different).

We’re unmooring from the comfort of our assumptions and the illusion of safety in following the path before. We’re seeing that the road we’ve been set on is broken, littered with emotional boobytraps that spiral us into the warring mindset of us vs. them — and there’s no shortage of enemies churned up for you to project your hate and frustration onto.

But here’s the thing about the increasingly radicalized nature of our politics: it 100% relies on tribalism.

You know tribalism. You probably partake in it every season when your favorite team is up against other teams. Suddenly the sports team made up of people you don’t know, who you don’t train with, managed by groups you don’t know… becomes a big amorphous “us.” Magically, you become part of this team the same way politicians who don’t know you, who don’t care about…