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“Many … live in poverty, but because the nature of poverty is to disempower and distract, the burdens of their daily lives limit their capacity to act.” Poverty Book:Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic Source: Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
“[T]he system that has created and sustained the epidemic of insecurity in this country relies on a network of tokens to placate the communities that suffer most.” InsecurityEpidemic Of InsecurityToken Book:Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic Source: Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
“[T]he paradoxical insecurity of the wealthy[: t]he fear of some future material insecurity compels [the wealthy] to put more space between themselves and the materially insecure, and in hoarding resources and creating and sustaining systems that accelerate inequality, they perpetuate the insecurity under which so many suffer.” InsecurityParadoxInsecurity Of The Wealthy Book:Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic Source: Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
“Fearmongering works because we allow it to: we play our part in the cycle of fear, blame, and hatred. We allow ourselves to respond in kind to hatred and to hit back, even though we know our actions will only escalate the hatred. We learn to hate, too. We become the equivalent opposite of those who hate us. Yet we think that our hate is righteous, excused by the hatred we have so long endured. But hatred is still hatred. It is still cold. It is still dead. And it is still dehumanizing.” HateInsecurityExploitationFearmongeringCycle Of Fear Book:Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic Source: Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic