SDCT0016: The single most basic question for citizens and their government alike is this: How big is your circle of family? Is it just you and your own children? Does it include anyone outside of your own home? Can a circle of family contain your entire country? Can it extend beyond your nation’s borders to embrace refugees and migrants? A “big circle” political party has a big circle of family. A “small circle,” or “tiny bubble,” political party is the mirror opposite.
A circle of family is a circle of empathy, of compassion, of love, and of moral duty. In the language of Circles Theory, this is a breadth of mental accommodation to influences outside the self, in one’s Reality, Logical, and Social environments (the “RLS environment”).
If your circle of family is so small that it does not extend beyond your own household, then you are apt to gravitate toward the “tiny bubble” far right side of the political spectrum. Your party, the Trump-Republican Party, is currently ripping children from the arms of their mothers at the U.S.-Mexican border, closing the U.S. to Syrian refugees, referring to much of the world as “sh**hole countries,” and turning its back on all 194 other countries of the world and 100 percent of future humanity by refusing to help preserve a livable climate for our planet. “Big circle of family” governments will lead the world toward peace and prosperity; “tiny bubble” governments will lead toward calamity and the eventual extinction of life on Earth.
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