AmericanNationalist's muse of the day: Standards matter, so we can live up to them.

All too often, I think we as humans have loosely defined standards and that's not a bad thing. I actually think one of the worst things about religion in the 21st century is a dogmatic absolutism that simply doesn't apply(and it definitely doesn't apply if the pope or the priest goes on to do some...shady things.)

However, I think we've allowed it to become too loose and not tight enough. What do I mean by that? I've oft-referenced to self responsibility and the need to take ownership, proud ownership of who we are, how we want to be represented and what we stand for. Our beliefs only matter as strongly as we cling to them.

But lately, and today I want to focus on something else: Holding others to different standards then you would hold yourself to. And the key prime example is one Donald. J. Trump. Orange Man Bad himself can do no good, even if he does do something good, it's an accident!

So surely, these virtue signalers would hold themselves to a greater principle than Donald Trump! They would show the "true America" that the rabid racists deny through "Trumpism".
Only, their "true America" has been to burn buildings, shoot at and kill innocent Americans and topple monuments and public property.

And in response to all of this....crickets. None of the "We're better than that", or the "when he goes down, we go up". When All Lives Matter becomes a controversial statement(it's a part of the preamble of the declaration of independence), you know we as a nation have lost our moral fabric.

And yet, the one tearing it down is not Orange Man Bad. Orange Man Bad activated the FBI/DOJ on the George Floyd incident almost immediately and spoke against the tragedy of his death. And it still wasn't enough.

And that's because we hold Orange Man Bad to a different standard, then we hold everybody else to. And it's not a "he's the President" standard either, so no don't try to come at it with that. It's a "we hate his friggin guts" standard.

Which is fine, there's no law against hating his guts. It would just be serviceable for public discourse if we...openly admitted that. Don't make excuses, don't say "because of this or that" because frankly, anything involving him is the trigger. Just say it.

Hold yourselves to the same standards that you hold others to, you'll feel better that way and we'll understand each other better that way.