Choose Discernment: Elevate Wellness Beyond Labels

Beyond Slogans: Why Discernment Matters More Than Tribal Labels Reducing everything to fascist vs. anti-fascist, or racist vs. anti-racist, isn’t moral clarity, it’s sloganeering. It collapses debate, erases nuance, and turns everyone you dislike into a villain. That’s not courage. It’s projection dressed as righteousness. We live in a time where every disagreement is reduced to a two-word label. The effect is flattening: complex human beings are transformed into caricatures, entire debates are shut down before they begin, and the moral high ground is claimed by whichever side shouts the label first. But slogans are not substitutes for truth. Discernment demands that we rise above reduction. It asks us to evaluate words, actions, and principles on their merits, not through the lens of tribal shorthand. To call someone “fascist” or “racist” may feel righteous, but without evidence and context it becomes just another cudgel. And the more we rely on cudgels, the less we cultivate actual clarity. History shows the danger of this collapse. When political discourse degrades into slogans, dialogue dies, and violence often follows. Labeling opponents as existential enemies erodes the possibility of persuasion, coexistence, or even basic recognition of shared humanity. That collapse isn’t strength; it’s weakness disguised as certainty. Discernment offers a higher path. It requires courage, the courage to hold standards that apply to friend and foe alike, the courage to condemn violence regardless of tribe, the courage to separate disagreement from dehumanization. This isn’t neutrality; it’s integrity. By choosing discernment over slogans, we keep alive the fragile conditions of democracy itself: where words can still meet words, where truth can still be sought, and where humanity isn’t sacrificed to tribe. If we fail to reclaim that higher ground, then slogans will continue to hollow out our discourse until nothing remains but accusation and collapse. But if we choose discernment, we choose civilization over barbarism. #TruthOverTribe