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Yes I Can Empowers
The empowerment of Yes I Can is amazing.
I don’t know about you, but No I Can’t makes me feel low, down, and dejected. It’s not a pleasant sensation.
On the other hand, Yes I Can makes me feel good, up, and enthusiastic. It’s a very pleasant sensation.
Positivity and negativity, at their core, come down to YES and NO. While there are certainly times when saying NO and stepping away from a situation is the way to go — its power is frequently misplaced.
Look at American politics. Though the two parties are imperfect in any number of ways, the Republicans over the years have increasingly become the party of NO. Look at all the restrictions they attempt to impose towards women, LGBTQA+, blacks, and so on. Hell, the lead Republican in the Senate has stated all he plans to do is say NO to everything proposed by Democrats.
Every NO those politicians place is about disempowerment. They do and say a lot to make it look like its intent is to protect people. But step back and look from a wider angle and it’s pretty clear that’s just not so.
This is something beyond personal control, save voting these naysayers into positions of power. I believe one reason we do that is because of a form of societal Stockholm Syndrome. We believe the lies so thoroughly that we’re in…
