Is truth is overrated?

Why doesn’t the truth matter anymore? We now live in a world where the truth and facts do not matter. We live in a world where you must pick a “side” and if you don’t pick the “side” that someone else picked then they attack you verbally, emotionally, mentally, and treat you as if you are a criminal. With politics, each political party should be able to voice their opinions without getting attacked. They should make it known though that they are stating an opinion and not the facts. Political parties should not be AGAINST each other, they should be working together because we all want what is best, right? Opinions are okay but they are not facts. FACTS are what decisions should be based off, not hearsay, opinions, or exaggerated information. In college, when writing a paper, we had to list our resources and they had to be credible with substantiated evidence. We weren’t allowed to use YouTube or FB, or articles from tabloids. We also had to find multiple resources with similar findings to show credibility and evidence. So why doesn’t that apply in the real world? My neighbor was a friendly guy, coming over to chat and we helped each other with some yard work…. After I put my political signs in the yard, he started acting different, stopped coming over to chat, and doesn’t do his yard work when I am anymore. He isn’t rude or unfriendly, just not the same friendly guy. Why is this? We both are the same people we were before the signs went up, right?

This is everywhere though. Not just in today’s politics. I consider myself a good person. I enjoy helping others and making people smile. I am thoughtful and always put others before myself. I am respectful and nice to everyone, even those who have not returned the gesture. I just try to distance myself from those who have hurt me or my children. There is no good reason to continue to put myself in a dangerous situation. Since I am a survivor of decades of abuse though, I have kept the evidence proving why I distance myself from certain people. I have medical records, counselor reports, police reports, emails, audio recordings, witnesses, etc. I have what my lawyer called hard evidence. These same people can say one negative thing about me, and people will hate on me without talking to me. Most of the time I do not even know what was said about me, so I am unable to defend, dispute or correct the information. The times that I have been told what was said, the negative comment about me is not true and they have no facts or evidence to their claim. The people who have been turned against me, that treat me like a criminal won’t even acknowledge my evidence.

It’s very hurtful when you are treated like dirt just because someone wanted to tell a lie about you, and no one wants to know the truth. When I hear something about someone else, I either talk to that person or find out if it is credible information before I react. Most of the time, no matter what is said, I do not treat them any different anyway unless it becomes a danger to be around them. In my opinion, good people do not treat others this way. If someone has done something, a good person would try to help them, not estrange them. For 40 years, I kept forgiving my abusers even without any apologies, but I continued to allow them to remain in my life which in turn let them continue to abuse me and my kids.