Yes (am I complicit?).

There is going to be a reckoning in history of now, of what is happening right now. 
This is the question, the tough question, we can ask ourselves.

How complicit am I?

We all are complicit. But what kind of complicit? To what degree? And if so, what are steps, small or large, we can take to be less so?

Are you passively complicit? As in not doing all you can to battle ignorance and fear and fight for the safety of those outside your family and community’s orbit? That's me. I mean…my heart’s in a place of wanting to do more, and I show up and speak out and do what I can in small ways, as it fits semi-conveniently into my life. But there’s a lot I accept about the wrongs around us, despite being angry and not okay with things, because…it’s hard.

Are you actively complicit? Did you vote, and/or do you continue to support a man, an administration whose policies are
ripping families apart,
ripping relationships apart,
ripping good faith dialogue and decency and dignity apart? 


Are you actively complicit in the
ripping of long-term economic foundations apart,
the ripping apart the pillars on which democracies survive, let alone flourish?

If so, you are actively complicit.

Your mindset or words may be, “I don't like politics.” 
I don't like the news and media and how negative they always are. It means you might throw around rhetorical queries such as, “Who knows what the truth is?”

That might be a sort of question you ask poetically, rhetorically; surface words that mean little other than to convey that you lack the courage to match your principles and convictions against the words and actions of a tyrant modeling the worst of humanity.

To be actively complicit at this point in time means to accept the status quo,

to accept that you're okay with bad things happening to other people. 
The actively complicit might sympathetically murmur things such “as it's hard to know what the truth is,” or “there’s always two sides to a story,” as if those are profound and relevant wisdoms as we see and hear incontrovertible evidence of families and children being ripped, torn, damaged, hurt by a government legitimized to do so.

To be actively complicit means whether or not you have raised your voice in support of the current administration, you have not found the lies, the cruelty, the profound escalation of power concentration and Constitution-trampling, important enough or relevant enough to do or say anything. 


You have perhaps in your mind remained neutral, above the fray, outside the conflict. “People need to stop getting so worked up and making a fuss.” Every single person I have known to convey that message…that mindset seems to come from a place they seem to feel is neutral. 


“Let's just settle down.
Let's not raise a stink.
People need to stop making such a fuss.”

These are similar reasonings given to support any number of historic civil rights actions.

You raise a fuss when something’s wrong and those in power aren’t listening.

You cannot be a Christian and ignore the New Testament.
You cannot be a Christian and reject the words of Jesus.

You cannot be a Christian and think that “….where two or more gather in my name” is important with churches, but not with protests. 


You cannot be a Christian now, and remain silent in the face of evil calling itself good, and not be…actively complicit.