{"id":4972,"date":"2025-08-16T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:53:04","slug":"be-not-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/be-not-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Not Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been following along with the outrage surrounding the DC takeover. The local news outlets have been trying to highlight “both sides” of the situation. I checked the local TV sources while I was listening to WTOP<\/a>; are they searching for things to prove Orange Man Bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m seeing three basic perspectives on this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Everything he does is awful, and just how awful it is can’t be understated. We’re all going to die! (This is understandable in a city where Officer Harris got well over 90% of the vote.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. There was a better way to do it, and it’s bad because OrangeManBad is doing it, and this other way should have been tried first<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. I may not like it, but it might work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This story<\/a> kind of hits those points. I don’t know if it’s just audience service, but they mention the Women’s March from January 2017 without any comment offensive backers<\/a>. Okay, they’re bad, but nowhere nearly as bad as Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I’m listening to\/watching the news, and watching the local news stations, the coverage seems to be overwhelmingly-focused on position #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Along with the tack I’ve taken with the title of my Substack, “I’m Okay With This,” I’ve been thinking about Isaiah 41<\/a> quite a bit lately; be not afraid<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Maybe that’s influenced by too much attention to Human Progress<\/a><\/em>. I’ll be the first to admit that many of the actions fall into the do-something-even-if-it’s-wrong category. The people in the second group I identified seem to fall into this camp. He’s never going to satisfy the people in Group One. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But what’s been happening, especially since the “Summer of Love,” hasn’t been working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Logically, I understand that absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, but I have noticed a paucity of the usual crime stories since the takeover; maybe this will work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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