We Know The Way.
At the end of the day, I believe in the decency of the American people. I would have left the United States a long time ago if I did not believe in the decency of our people.
I believe in my family, friends, and colleagues. I don't watch the debates. Many of them do.
I believe in our capacity to do a better thing for our children.
I do my research. Those who have a real career in politics: I look up their in-office work and contributions, where their funding comes from, what they have supported in their home states and D.C. I do the same for those just seeking nomination and look at their attributes and contributions in their industry and businesses. I hear and get plenty of feedback from my circle and definitive information from researching. I don't ingest poison or let vice penetrate my life. It means I am not one to stand at the water cooler with gossip and sensationalism or post memes on social media as a means of citing my "political choice." I often encourage people to not ingest the madness, to focus their energy on what they want to grow, but truth is we live in a YouTube age and are not dealing with a community of Americans that like libraries and long form learning. Decisions are being made based on fear and snack content.
If you stand in filth long enough you will eventually become infected. You keep looking at something and engaging in madness time and time again; eventually it will get hold of you, impact your mind, become an obsession and we lose you to it. It becomes hard to get you back. This is the case for people who lose their minds as well.
For as mass as we are in our consumption of things that we do not need, as grossly over stimulated as we are by popular culture, false and negative media and extremely bad social conditions, I think that there is a common decency that will prevail. However, it is a long time away. And what is our condition today?
We are challenged by our own egos and we seem to like to talk and debate rather than take absolute action. I think that no matter the side of the aisle we sit on, we want our individual beings to contribute to, choose and reflect a better tomorrow for our children and their children. There are legions of us who expect even a modicum of humility, truth and clarity from the want to be (s) and elected politicians (people with many agendas). It is too easy to decide that money allows people a platform to make a joke of our political system. The emergence of reality shows in popular culture has permeated our political culture. Destroyed journalism as a true discipline requiring fact finding and even knowledgeable and educated "journalist" or newscasters. It is beyond mud slinging. It is a ratings game for the media. It is how they gain the procurement of advertising. I wonder if anyone pays attention to the kind of ads that are in play and how it is all just part of the narrative. The systems of politics and journalistic media are broken.
I agree it needed fixing before, but I don't think you remove all four wheels from your vehicle when your are traveling a long way home and get a singular flat tire that has you pulling off the road. You fix the singular flat and you look forward to getting home to your kids, your spouse/ partner, the basic comforts of a home where decency resides. And as Americans, don't we all want to feel at home?
What happened to being qualified? I may want the job of a Fortune 100 CEO, but there are requirements in terms of professional experience, levels of education, history of success, actual accountability and a track record that would be required for me to secure such a role.
Why is it any different in securing nominees to run and become candidates for president?
We have become a society uncivilized in our choosing and allowances. Absurd in the levels of bad behavior that we tolerate. There is so much attention being focused on people who undervalue others on the basis of their ethnic origin, skin color, faith practices, religion, financial status, level of education, gender, and sex.
My highest sensibility and my consciousness tells me that these people are not well. We give physical exams for entry into the military, require extensive training of these men and women to take on the tutelage and security of our country, we have extraneous standards on intelligence and test scores for the most elite schools in the country and the world, we require a drivers license to drive a car, yet when it comes to seeking candidacy and political office, apparently anything goes. I mean anything that is crazy is allowed. We allow it.
There is an unsavory quest for drama, humiliation, anger and emotional instability and we seem to be people who just won't look away. It is as if the sign, "Don't feed the animals ," is being ignored at the zoo. The truth is, everything I have ever seen at the all the real zoos that I have visited in my lifetime are far more tame. I have with great expectation, watched elk, monkeys, boars, bears, great felines and even meerkats show much greater accountability for each other, display order , show empathy and respect in their communities (even in captivity).
Imagine deciding that you won't subscribe? Imagine deleting a feed, changing the channel and not giving the ratings that the machine allowing these plays and reality shows "Anything Goes" and "The Amazing Disgrace" are profiting from. We can dictate the consequences of this gross dysfunction because that is the power of decent people. Imagine.
Somehow, we have lost the notion of our power and how to use it. I get it. Our history is torrid and shameful in many ways but we are not beyond repair and we need not go down the cesspool. We allow so much disgrace into our homes via TV and let hate, indecency, narcissism, bigotry and lies dictate the daily conversations and be the entertainment.
We seek this type of entertainment positioned as the road to the presidency versus knowing how it is that our children are doing, how our elders are and what innovation, solutions, readiness, and service we can give to our employers and the needs of our communities. We put all of these behind and on the back burner giving attention to a circus and zoo where something went terribly wrong and human beings behave more like rabid animals. We give up on ourselves. We are worth so much more than the current antics and disgraceful display we are ingesting.
Yes enter-tain-ment : Allowing something to enter your mental space and in this case, to taint your level of decency; interrupt your peace and mental well being.
We are missing the message that this mess reveals.
I believe it is that post traumatic stress disorder, mental illness, sociopaths, narcissist and the issue of abject hate , the absence of moral integrity and sexism are to be acknowledged as real, overwhelming and likely to create civil uprising. We need leaders and mainly outside the halls of politics but within our social systems to swiftly and courageously administer care for the pathologies that they all reflect. We are seeing a grandstand of the most grave social epidemic of our time and it is not what our children and future generations have ordered up.
What we see is a reflection of the attention and concentration of the unwell perpetuated and come to life in a few bodies. It only takes a few. I cannot embrace how captivated by the charade we are. It is humiliating and sad that this is what has captured us as we sit on the world's stage. Yet, I believe in the decency of the American people, the American citizen voter.
We Americans are being tested and sent on a no fail mission once candidates are determined on both sides. How will we fair? What will the children's children tell of our decency, our resolve, our consciousness and planning for them and how we decided to write and right our social and political legacy?
If you are going to keep looking. I implore you to look into their eyes. Go ahead grab some stills from Goggle images and look into their eyes.
Praying a hedge of protection, soundness of mind, asking for courage, exercising decency and having high moral accountability is the way. Choose on that basis if you are well enough to do so.
Namaste ~
"A"
P.S. Re: PTSD -these people have their histories, their devastation before now, car accidents, head injuries, broken relationships, medical histories, personal insecurities and dysfunctions, broken faith, lack of faith and in many cases self hatred ( guess which ones). When these things metastasize on public platforms we can be our biggest selves and think who will take care of them (as they are all except maybe one all not too many years away from' old and decrepit) when we acknowledge the gravity of their illness and how it set in. They are in so much pain. Unthinkable pain and the extremely ugly guilt that comes with privilege.