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They were not fooled [1]

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Date: 2025-04-22

Some say you were played; I don’t think you were played. You didn’t fall for a con, you didn’t misunderstand things. You didn’t think “it won’t happen to me”. You went in with your eyes wide open and your soul eager for the future you saw before you. That future you had so long, longed for.

Yes, even those of you who needed a better more socially acceptable excuse, you know who you are. You went to him willingly, so greedy were you to validate your biases, insecurities and prejudices. You were hungry for a reason, any reason to release the contempt and hate so long held in check by the demands of a decent society.

You brushed aside all concerns and doubts, reveling in your newfound freedom to finally be yourself. While the rest of us dreamt of the dream, you dreamt of revenge and plotted for the day you could release all that hatred all that resentment onto the objects of your hatred.

You forego growing and evolving, and the more you stagnated in place the more your insecurities and inadequacies blossomed, the more you hated those you blamed for your own lack of self-motivation, you own lack of self-preservation.

And then came your god, you knew him instantly for it was like looking in a mirror. He was the embodiment of all your feelings, and his words were those you’d long to hear since your birth, longed to be able to say, to do. Go forth and hate, he said and you flocked to him quicker than the speed of light. He preached the gospel of bigotry and discrimination, and you were captured, you turned away from the preachings of that other guy, you know the one called Jesus, for that god told you to love thy neighbor. You didn’t want to love your neighbor; you wanted your neighbors to suffer.

Now this new god of yours spoke to all your hidden desires, he not only told you it was right and just to have those desires and hatred, but he told you that it was just to act upon them, to give in to them. It was so easy for you to believe, wasn’t it. So very very easy for you.

But even as you did, there was still those voices saying, beware, be careful… but you didn’t want to listen to those voices, you wanted to be free to hate openly, you didn’t simply want to hate, the hate was always there, you wanted your hate to be seen, to be felt, you wanted it out in the open, you wanted us to know just how much you hated us, just how long you had been waiting for this day. That was the only freedom you thought of, the freedom to hate.

And to this day as your new god strips you of all levels of decency and humanity, as he places you and your loved ones in not only financial danger but physical danger, as he turns you not only against those neighbors, but members of your family, your friends, your colleagues and he casts you into poverty, you still feel no sense of shame, for he still allows you to hate. And as long as you can hate, you will sacrifice anything to feel that high.

What does that say about you? Did you even know the depths of your own hate? Did you know you had such a capacity for hate? That you’d even sell your soul for the chance to freely hate? Did you?

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#ThePoet - Muriel Vieux – April 22nd, 2025, ©All rights reserved

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