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A friend tagged me on a Facebook post
after the election wherein she shares her optimistic and spiritual
focused pathway for the future as she sees it. In the first sentence
she uses the words “strangely activated” and continues on to
express a positive focused agenda of what she dedicates herself to
do.
I identify with her words “strangely activated”. I have felt this for a while now as can seen from some of my previous posts on my page such as recently making a signed peace pledge meme rededicating myself to peace work. Although fundamentally non-violent I am not a pacifist and I have realized this for a long time. I am more of a revolutionary. The last few years I have been fairly idle and somewhat reclusive but for a while now I have been feeling uneasy about being this way, increasingly intensified with the recent presidential elections and the unacceptable events occurring at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. I have had many a talk with my dearest confidants about how to shake off the cobwebs and the dust and get more involved in working for societal change.
As of late
my outlet has been reading history and adding information to my
website on revolution, feminism, voting rights, the Constitution and
beyond. In reading these things I see that the election of Donald J.
Trump as the new President of the United States has shades of history
wrapped all around it. Past is prologue. I have seen how Americans
for the most part have short memories when it comes to history. I
have felt a bit fearful for the
millennials
as their entire adult lives they have only known war. The baby
boomers are on a steady decline in our society. And those who came at
the end of that generation (like myself) who watched the chaos of the
Vietnam War the race riots of the 60s and the onslaught of the rise
of American foreign policy of regime change view the election of
Donald Trump though different eyes.
His
populist message of draining
the swamp of the corruption in congress and beyond itself is nothing
new. The rhetoric of “America First” too is not new but resonates
with many with fear as their core emotion rather than hope. As a
result of this fear is the marriage the
"otherness" as a way to come to
grips with this feeling of disenfranchisement and it's causes. And
our new president has used this very well in this election acting as
the minister conducting the ceremony of this union and as was said by
Saul Bellow. "When
we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
And Trump has served well as this accomplice.
This is written as a brief response to
my friend who asks, “What do you choose to stand for today?!?”
Well my dear A.M. I see the “embracing of otherness” as a
fundamental element in all that is wrong with the world. It fuels
war. It hinders environmental progress. In frustration many say like
Alvin Lee expressed in 1971, “I'd love the change the world but I don't know what to do. So I'm leaving it up to you.”
(and unfortunately millennials after the loss of Bernie Sanders have seemed to adopt this attitude) Using the phrases of the past struggles and revolutions for justice
to me are never passé. I will continue to use those phrases. I will
say the
Metta
as a daily ritual. As I read your post I recall the the words of John
F. Kennedy. “If not us, who? If not now, when?” We must hold our
new president accountable to the proposition that "all men are
created equal" to counter this otherness.
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