Flipping the Switch on Our Perception of Things
[Note to readers: The excerpt about Marjorie Taylor Greene first appeared in my Substack post of January 14, https://dalelugenbehl.substack.com/ . The story about Greene in the following blog post is used here to introduce a different and nonpolitical lesson to be gleaned from Greene’s experience.] After years of steadfastly supporting President Trump, Majorie Taylor Greene recently broke with Donald Trump and strongly repudiated him. What follows is an excerpt from an article in New York Times Magazine focusing on what happened to Greene when she watched murdered right wing activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on television. What stayed with Greene long afterward were the last two speakers who took the stage. First there was Kirk’s widow, Erika, who stood in white before the crowd filling the Arizona stadium, lifted her tear-filled eyes and said that she forgave her husband’s killer. And then there was President Trump. “He was a missionary...
