dreaming a season of Peace

 

we need to create and promote a national project to educate and inspire the People to demand democratic rule for our common benefit -- it takes work and commitment, which seem to be out of favor

we need to fully fund so many projects to improve our lives, health, interactions, ability to thrive

we need to reassess our attitudes toward money and use it as it is meant to be, to account for the use of resources so we may more easily trade our skills to do what we best could for all 

the truth is we are not Republicans or Democrats

We are people with hugely varying experience, ideas, values and cohorts

We are a species that needs to gather with others of our kind, and so create these labels to pretend those who we attach to them are the same.

remember democracy?  where we get to debate our positions, look for the people who would best represent us, the whole competition aspect through which we find and refine our best options?  This is well before the big day (days with early voting), when we ought to be searching far and near for the very best -- not cementing ourselves in a "safe" place which is anything but

dreaming a season of peace

I understand you are concerned

about those who threaten, who

hate your group, because they are

threatening you.  Understand,

your real group is humankind.

The threat is people who enjoy

violent bullying, who feed on hate.

We don't just need a Not Trump

for our future US leader.  We

need ab experienced, intelligent,

calm, resourceful, compassionate,

charismatic representative of our

best values to bring us forward

through vastly complex troubled

times.

Who do you see?

Can the underlying rationale to

criminalize abortion be for some

Christian Nationalists a means of

depleting the Black American

population?  So many Black women

die in childbirth, both removing

them and their reproductive future.

There is no better world to aspire

to or find

We can devise our Earthly

lives to be kind.

Christian Nationalists are 

pro-Zionist while viciously

antisemitic.

Develop, create, spread inspiring

excitement -- let a thousand

progressive projects bloom!

Understand, results may be

incremental, at times imperceptible,

until a tipping point brings another

leap forward.

Protest outside the offices of the

people who have the power to 

make the desired difference.

Call them by name, and demand

they meet with the group's

representatives, live streamed.

Make sure to have knowledgeable,

persuasive representatives.

This in the US is not inflation.

Dollars are not worth less.

Rather, prices are "inflated"

regardless of the actual costs to

manufacture and distribute

products.

Maybe the problem is that what

the People want is not democracy,

but the pomp and glitter of

aristocracy.  The Hunger Games

type society, where the poor are

made useful as brutal entertainment,

the wealthy privileged are entitled

as the ruling class.

12/3-16/23