Firstly, the dude I'm having this conversation with is more than just a "Harris supporter" and I am more than just a "Trump supporter", but the limited characters available on the Internet require such reductiveness but let that reductiveness not seep into you as you watch/listen to this conversation. I have another video coming up on "abortion", where I share some reflections. This weekend I had a long chat with my sister where we discussed many things – one of which was the horrific 7 week abortion experience that one of her friends went through in LA. This subject is quite the intersection of all that so many of us care about and I hope that we can practice navigating conversations around it with care, awareness of what we know and awareness of what we don't know. #harris #trump #roevwadeoverturned #abortiondebate

This is the follow up on the conversation I had, emergently themed on abortion, with a brother who is voting for #kamalaharris this election. I get single issue voters through this content creation journey. As much as I feel aligned with many things that #trump has proposed, I get it why people would want to punish him for being instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade. If that's you, I support you. At the same time, I hope that folks with a progressive orientation around abortion access – which is that humans should have the option to decide if they want to abort (in some cases) – move to the states/communities which have horrifically restrictive policies and foster the grassroots change required for the states to themselves change their regulations. In the long run, progress fostered from the grassroots seems to win out over progress imposed from top. There's so much more to talk about on this subject and I'm personally sick of the stalemate between pro-choice and pro-life bandwagons, both failing to represent and speak adequately to their shadow sides. #abortiondebate

"Fascist" is a word that gets thrown around quite easily these days along with other words like "bigot", "racist" and "transphobic". These adjectives have become placeholders for "I feel upset about something that you said". Our society has gotten so numbed out and expect so little actual change from politicians that someone who doesn't stick to prepared scripts and shows more dimensions of their human personality than puppet politicians who manage to maintain their one-dimensional image, is considered odd. The establishment of politicians is about to crumble just like the numbed layers of a human being are ready to crumble right before some deeply repressed trauma is revealed and in that moment of crumbling, there's a protective fear of Death that gets projected outwards onto the "threat". But as is the case with a healing journey, you are actually not really "dying", it's just parts of you that no longer serve you are fading away. Similarly, with this political saga, it's not that Trump is "fascist", it's that aspects of the political establishment that have just milked societal problems for money over decades are about to fall away. See that for what it is and vote sensibly in the coming elections. #VoteTrump

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