We all desire to be loved. We only fully flourish when we are loved. Being loved affirms our goodness as human persons. Our search for love shapes so many of our actions and pursuits. Some have even suggested that all of our reasons for action arise from love, and that all of our various emotions and passions are ultimately grounded in love.
He recalled how one day he did a home visit with a child who was born addicted to cocaine. I was never born addicted to anything, D'Souza said. The challenges that those folks have to deal with in order to overcome and become somebody that they dream about becoming is such a huge difference between what I had to go through. It awakened my thinking about what I want to do with my life. From that moment on, D'Souza said he knew he was going to dedicate his career to public service.
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn't the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone can't make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream default is to see a failing individual rather than a failing system.
Kemi Badenoch was about to make a speech about restricting non-British nationals' access to disability and sickness benefits, another instalment of her toxic quest to divide people into makers and takers.
When asked if he would consider delaying the vote due to the scale of opposition, Starmer replied: "We were elected to change what is broken in our country. The welfare system is broken, and that's why we will press ahead with our reforms."
