Learn the lesson of Christmas unity — before politics tears us apart |
A few days ago I realized with a shock that Advent was nearly over.
I’d yet to get a tree, and I hadn’t even begun to hunt through the house for my nativity scene.
I’d been so preoccupied with political news, and the dueling diatribes of what’s being called the “MAGA civil war,” that I’d lost track of those dwindling days before the big day itself.
I know politics is not the reason for the season, but here it was Christmas week and it’s all I’d been thinking about.
My ornaments and lights were all packed away where I stashed them last year, and my grocery-store pie crusts sat ice-cold in the freezer.
Presents were still unwrapped, sitting in the brown cardboard boxes they’d been delivered in.
I’d done the thing I’ve warned everyone else not to do: I got caught up in the political fights of others.
In the days leading up to the holy Christian day, pundits and podcasters on the right took aim at each other.
They weren’t even hashing out questions of policy or substance, just jousting and........