I don’t give a single fuck what your political views or religious beliefs are. I don’t filter people that way. How boring and limiting is that? I don’t care if you pray to Jesus, Gaia, Taylor Swift, or your own reflection. Blast Joe Rogan or a 10-hour loop of whale sounds. Keep a Glock in your glovebox or a crystal on your dashboard. Hang an American flag, a rainbow flag, a Cowboys flag, or all three. Tattoo the Bill of Rights on your ass. Burn sage, burn the Bible, burn incense, burn nothing. It’s your life.

You wanna homeschool your kids in a yurt? Cool.

You wanna live-stream your vegan ayahuasca journey? Godspeed.

You wanna wear camo and Crocs to the grocery store? Do it.

I. Don’t. Care.

But I do care deeply about three things:

Are you kind?

Do you think critically?

Are you self-aware?

That’s the real litmus test. Not ideology. Not lifestyle. Not your curated identity.

Because without those three traits, I don’t trust you with power. I don’t trust you with influence. I don’t trust you near the people I love.

Here is why…

When unkind, unthinking, unaware people vote for unkind, unthinking, unaware leaders, the rest of us are forced to live in a world shaped by cowardice and cruelty.

By people who can’t regulate their own nervous systems but think they should regulate how other people live.

By people who prize loyalty and fealty over integrity and dignity.

By people who abuse women, children, and power to mask their own lack of self-love.

That’s not a difference of opinion.

That’s a threat.

Because when you put assholes like that in office, on school boards, or behind a badge, you’re not electing leadership—you’re endorsing a worldview where power is a weapon, not a responsibility. You’re handing the keys to people who jerk off to dominance and treat governance like a reality show—loud, mean, dumb, and rigged.

They don’t read. They don’t listen. They don’t reflect.

They retaliate. They censor. They lie.

And the fallout isn’t theoretical—it’s happening right now, and it’s doing real harm to real people. In your family, your community, your church, your workplace.

Protestors are being illegally arrested and deported. US citizens are being targeted for speaking out. A judge was arrested, for fuck’s sake. Governors are threatening to defund universities for allowing free assembly. Children are dying from measles in states where vaccine paranoia—stoked by so-called “independent thinkers”—has gutted public trust in medicine. Books are being banned by the hundreds, especially those that teach empathy, history, or anything that challenges white, straight fragility. Trans kids are being targeted by an onslaught of over 850 anti-LGBTQ+ bills, stripping them of healthcare, dignity, and in some cases, the right to exist in public at all. Teachers are muzzled. Scientists are fired. Whistleblowers are punished. All the while billionaires are handed blank checks to play god with the infrastructure of society.

So yes, you are responsible for this. You are culpable. That’s how being an adult works. How accountability works.

If you were kind, you wouldn’t look away.

If you were a critical thinker, you wouldn’t fall for this shit.

If you had any real self-awareness, you’d feel the shame of how far this has drifted from the values you claim to hold.

That is why you are unsafe. That is why we can’t be friends.