I read this recently in regards to the new security measures at the airports. It has gotten ridiculous how much security there is, and yet how NOT secure they are making us. Anyway, this is absolutely an awesome analogy. Just substitute the violent relationship with the treatment our government is subjecting us to. It actually makes me ashamed to be an American sometimes...
Right now we are a woman getting beaten by her husband/boyfriend. We can throw a fit and leave or call the cops and the violence will end. Or we can say, as so many do, ‘he isn’t really this bad, he did it for my own good, I did something I shouldn’t have, etc’. And the beatings will continue and get worse and her quality of life and confidence will degrade into nothingness. She will get used to the beatings and take them as the new normal.
Many people look at women in abusive relationships and say, ‘how did that happen, why does she stay?’ The answer is because she didn’t put her foot down when it started.
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