We All Deserve Better, America. It's Time We Elect, Better.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Oct 18, 2024 · 6m

I love this country.

I don't love it blindly, though.

I don't love it unconditionally.

I don't love it unreservedly.

I love it with my eyes fully open.

I see well, its every deep disfigurement and garish blemish, every grotesque part of its past and every ugly bit of its present.

I see the crucible of colonialism it was formed in, the genocide and white supremacy it has been built upon and sustained by, and the insidious anti-Semitism and perverted Christian theology that has been leveraged to protect it all.

I see the systemic privilege and the toxic nationalism and the embedded misogyny…