We are left with no choice but to say, “this person does not represent us, they have no connection with us and we will not tolerate being made unsafe, even if it’s by one of our own.” The wellbeing of the community comes first.

Who gets to feel safe in this world?

If it takes a fortress to feel safe, ringed with walls and guns and drones and autonomous killing machines and economies of scale and re-written histories and questionable trade deals and a monopoly on the use of force... well, safety is a small element of fortification. It's expensive to exclude, control, and puppetmaster all those who are "threats," at home and throughout the world.

Its a short list of those who do, it seems, get to "feel safe." They are, simultaneously, doing some pretty horrible things to EVERYONE else.

• the Israeli political establishment and their boosters.

• the Russian oligarchic class and associates

• the transnational End Times Fascism boosters

• the evangelists of MAGA and alternative facts

• the bunker-builders and titanic energy consumers

• the scammers, crypto-bros, and manosphere influncers

Meanwhile, many lowly humans want to afford food AND energy AND shelter. Maybe to stop being spit on for turning away from Groupthink. Health care (physical and mental) and education would be nice. None of us who struggle at these most basic bar get to "feel safe."

We are absent human security. It would be great to re-institute the principle of Tikkun Olam — saving one life to save the world. Safeguarding the notion that the "wellbeing of our [collective] community comes first."