BE A PRINCIPLED INDIVIDUAL

This, as well, cannot be emphasized enough: YOU JUDGE A TREE BY ITS FRUITS, not by what is claimed by others that such a tree produces. To simply listen to a demagogue shirks direct experience, and those using word sorcery to tell you what the truth is rather than letting you experience it for yourself are attempting to take a falsely anointed position; they have become your false idol as you turn your back on action. You would turn your back, thus, on truth, which you must see with your own eyes. Belief, truth, is personal, and no one else can ever tell you what you see, if they themselves cannot see from your eyes; only you.
In this world, there can be no salvation, and when the light shines like disinfectant in all dark corners, revealing for everyone to see, what is actually happening, if you continue to deny it, you have sewn your loyalties, and proven that you stand against truth, for you genuinely do not want it.
The same is true in the other direction.
The difference comes down to one fundamental thing, which itself is based upon another bedrock: does one seek to build, or destroy? And what is the most important thing that one can ever build?
People. The soul. The human spirit.
Structures, people, institutions that advance this end are healthy and good. And at the bedrock of all of this, is love.