Soren, I think our real danger for society and humanity is that a significant number of Americas are willing to support DJT, a man who is totally unqualified to be President as most of his previous cabinet members assert. and much of the world knows. And, if being unqualified isn’t enough he is a man who is a convicted rapist, with 91 criminal indictments, a serial liar, an insurrectionist, a fraud…the list goes on. That danger is compounded by the fact that so many “leaders” don’t have the moral courage to speak out, even though they know who he is and what he represents. Are so many really willing to trade their reputations, and integrity, because the don't have the courage to speak out and tell the truth about the danger this man represents. The outcome of the US election of 2024 could well be the point at which historians will write that the US lost its standing in the world, its democracy, the rule of law, and the rest we can only imagine.
We wouldn't be human if we didn't recoil at atrocities before we got so angelic seeing the bigger picture. And I'd introduce something from left field as a response. Here's what I've previously written: "Hey, everyone, can we be clever? How's this? As the insurrectionists get prison sentences that satisfy our desires for vengeance, what about the higher need for our oppositional country to come to together? We could create a training program for the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys to teach them consciousness, so to speak. Waking them up would change the world, uniting the sides we are on and illustrating we all can come together in one human family. It’s an infinitely higher objective than making horrible people’s lives miserable, even though they deserve that." How about making some deal where Trump would subject himself to such a thing, too?
Soren, I cannot agree more with you. I recently wrote this piece for Humanity's Team. The message reads loud and clear: find common ground, remember that at our core, we all wish for the same things (peace, health, and happiness) and never, ever forget we all arise from the same timeless and beautiful source. https://www.humanitysteam.org/finding-common-ground#googtrans(en)
It has been said so poignantly that the issue/problem is not in doing little; it is in doing nothing. A small rivulet leads to a stream, to a creek, a river, eventually emptying into an ocean. All becomes possible once we begin .
Soren, I think our real danger for society and humanity is that a significant number of Americas are willing to support DJT, a man who is totally unqualified to be President as most of his previous cabinet members assert. and much of the world knows. And, if being unqualified isn’t enough he is a man who is a convicted rapist, with 91 criminal indictments, a serial liar, an insurrectionist, a fraud…the list goes on. That danger is compounded by the fact that so many “leaders” don’t have the moral courage to speak out, even though they know who he is and what he represents. Are so many really willing to trade their reputations, and integrity, because the don't have the courage to speak out and tell the truth about the danger this man represents. The outcome of the US election of 2024 could well be the point at which historians will write that the US lost its standing in the world, its democracy, the rule of law, and the rest we can only imagine.
Such truth, when we wish harm on others we are harming ourselves.
We wouldn't be human if we didn't recoil at atrocities before we got so angelic seeing the bigger picture. And I'd introduce something from left field as a response. Here's what I've previously written: "Hey, everyone, can we be clever? How's this? As the insurrectionists get prison sentences that satisfy our desires for vengeance, what about the higher need for our oppositional country to come to together? We could create a training program for the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys to teach them consciousness, so to speak. Waking them up would change the world, uniting the sides we are on and illustrating we all can come together in one human family. It’s an infinitely higher objective than making horrible people’s lives miserable, even though they deserve that." How about making some deal where Trump would subject himself to such a thing, too?
It would only be possible if you made it non-partisan. Clearly that’s impossible. Alas.
When I see atrocious behaviors I think of what pain must be motivating them.
Soren, I cannot agree more with you. I recently wrote this piece for Humanity's Team. The message reads loud and clear: find common ground, remember that at our core, we all wish for the same things (peace, health, and happiness) and never, ever forget we all arise from the same timeless and beautiful source. https://www.humanitysteam.org/finding-common-ground#googtrans(en)
It has been said so poignantly that the issue/problem is not in doing little; it is in doing nothing. A small rivulet leads to a stream, to a creek, a river, eventually emptying into an ocean. All becomes possible once we begin .