Building a better life by taking responsibility

Today’s politics seem to be all about creating victims of one side or the other to continue to drive a wedge between the parties. We are no closer to working together as a nation then we were a year ago or three years ago. Politicians continue to try to separate us to ensure their control over us. While the right wing complains about the victimhood mentality and victimhood politics, and tend to agree more with individual explanations to social problems and an individual’s fault if things turn out wrong. Marginalizing real issues that people face and placing the blame solely on them without helping find a solution. Progressive liberals continue to use victimhood politics. Allowing progressives to claim they are, in the business of helping marginalised or oppressed groups without actually doing anything to help anyone. All talk and no action. In doing so progressives attribute a kind of superior virtue or presumed authority to those who are victimised, and a reluctance to disagree with anyone who claims to feel like a victim. Unfortunately both of these methods incentivises everyone and anyone to declare themselves as society’s victims too, divorced from any significant personal experience of suffering or oppression. And, when government makes available funding to resolve said grievance, a cottage industry emerges with the incentive is to keep the whole thing going. What this does is nothing more than crate a type of identity politics of aggressively competing victimhoods, in which groups of people, based on religious, national, ethnic, sexual, or whatever else identity they chose, demand to have their victimhood status recognised and something done about it. This quashes all debate and moral reasoning, and in the end does little to resolve genuine oppression and suffering. As always the challenge is left to us to help. Help solve this problem created by politicians fighting to stay in power, help ourselves, help our family, and help our community. We can only solve problems through working together and we can only begin to work together if we stop competing to be the victim. Remember our issues may not be entirely our fault but they are entirely our responsiblity and we need to take action. That is why today we are talking about overcoming the victim mindset to improve our own lives and our community