rocky roads to better places

 

It can be so hard to get meaningful

work done, even without the nasty

obstruction from those people who

seem to believe that is their right

to provide.

Yes, I know, it feels so sharp, wrenching

There must be something to be done!

There must be someone meant to

make this right!

It can't wait one moment more,

must strongly bore through any

opposition, destroy those barriers

to true and ultimate solution

no matter what, and NOW!

It's a different world we live in today

than it has been before.

That's part of the problem -- people

desperately hanging on to a disappearing

world, not spending their time adapting.

Societal change tends to far outpace

political leadership.  That doesn't mean

voting is not important -- it is!

It is just not sufficient.

There are so very too many people who

have been treated horribly, and there

are so very too many treating others

horribly -- and it has nothing to do with

their "tribe", it's all on their behavior. 

I, always wanting to be helpful, useful,

forget -- that's not what people want.

People want to be loved.

It's not my world

It never has been

It belongs to those who know how

to get large numbers to follow them,

to those neat packages of leaders

and followers who give each other

that security and place, no matter

how dangerous or insane, objectively

It we could support an authoritarian

who for whatever reason provided

us with everything we need for a 

decent life -- but that would never be,

certainly not in a sense that we could

count on continuing

What we have now is certainly far from

what we want to see, what decent

people need to live decently,

what it has is hope

rocky, hazardous roads

we can travel to better places

I saw a very tired man, with an incredibly difficult job 

made more so by bad actors piling on him with lies and 

obstruction, taking on an obviously unfair "debate" 

against a rambling anti-democracy bully and rules 

that make it so much harder to get in real ideas, issues, 

truth. Sometimes we just don't have the energy in this 

public moment to keep up the game. Sometimes it all 

gets to us for a bit, and then we take some deep breaths, 

talk to some friends, think about what has been done 

and what we can do going forward.

say:  You are vile and not worthy of my attention

to bullies -- don't let the anti-humanitarians 

get you down

their insults and digs are really their own sins 

projected and nothing to do with you

again with the labeling and then making a 

universal jibe

Not Democrats -- some Democrats

did you believe just because some politicians 

thought they would do better with a D next to 

their name that makes them trustworthy, 

or liars, or any set of particular characteristics?  

We have to stop abdicating our democracy to 

political parties (remember Washington's warning)

 -- get together with people you trust with similar 

political beliefs.  Get out there and find people 

you can trust, with similar beliefs, who have shown 

their knowledge and effectiveness and promote them 

for the position you think they are best suited to. 

 Or run yourself.  

Make Democracy about The People Again

yes, Vote!  It is your basic duty as a citizen.  

But never believe voting is enough.  You 

have to actually find and support people 

who can and will do the job you want 

done -- and keep on them, or whoever is there.  

You can't expect immediate results -- our 

government was made to grind slowly.  

And DON'T expect government authorities 

to make it all fine.  Get out into the trenches, 

into the communities, into the hearts and 

minds, and do what YOU can.

I see people decrying various forms of 

bullying and discrimination.  It all comes 

down to hate as our adversary.  To fight 

hate we need to counter and defend 

with loving kindness

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