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 Avoid people who whip up your anger

At other people. 

They are controlling you.

Don't listen to people 

Who stoke up your fears, 

Especially your fears of other people, 

They are manipulating you.

Move away from people 

Who tell you only they 

Have got the truth

And that all those other people 

Are liars.

They are lying. 

Change channels on 

Voices that agree with everything

You already think

And tell you exactly

What you want to hear. 

They are playing you.

Plug your ears and go take a walk

When people get hyperbolic about

Your perceived enemies. 

They are Nazi-Communist-cannibal-pedophilic-lying-theiving-human-excrement.

They are projecting.

Take a deep breath and go talk to someone different

From your normal crowd. 

When they tell you to Other 

Other people, 

To label them, to write them off, to discard them,

To consider them un-people, 

Write off what they are saying.

They are trying to make you less than human.

Run away from people

Who mainly value freedom

When it's the freedom

To badmouth others and mistreat them. 

They love freedom if it means taking other people's freedom 

To live in peace

Away from them.

Don't be a marrionette, 

Jerked around by the strings of bias,

And hatred,

And fear.

When all you hear from a voice

Is what it is against,

Ask it what it's for. 

Ask it:

When you take away fear,

Hate, resentment,

Enemy-creation, and negativity,

What is left? 

What is the good.

And if they tell you those things are good, 

Get as far away as you can. 

They may be telling you their truth.

But that is not the same as 

The 

Truth. 

But here's the hard part. 

Try not to hate them either. 

Don't dehumanize even the dehumanizers. 

Unless you want to become the thing you hate.