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For those who have spent the last decade watching the erosion of the American social contract, the Pope’s choice of language resonates with an unsettling clarity. The discourse in the United States has devolved into a cycle of reactionary rage, where the fundamental capacity for empathy has been sacrificed on the altar of political tribalism. From the fractured state of legislative chambers to the kitchen tables divided by insurmountable ideological walls, the “wounding” is visible to anyone willing to stop shouting long enough to look. It suggests a systemic injury—a self-inflicted trauma born from the abandonment of common ground and the systematic degradation of truth.
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