This post is about a breakdown in communication that can lead to some very unfortunate events, which I’m titling “misratification.”

When we ratify, we excuse what we see, hear, and know to be wrong but don’t say or do anything about it. I know that not everyone is meant to do things that radically change the mindset or circumstance, but when an entire population ratifies injustice or wrongdoing, bad things happen – like racism (there goes those isms again).

Just as a for-instance, the law says murder’s illegal. But there have been (and continue to be in some cases) where the law sees no evil and even upholds the misdeeds because of the political or social tide of the time.

And even in our everyday lives, when someone is handed power and no one pulls the reins in when the power is misused, bad things happen again. From domestic violence to a Holocaust.

It’s when the population starts seeing what’s going on and believing their eyes, unplugging their ears and start really listening to what’s going on, and speaking up or taking action when and where it matters that change happens.