EXPERIMENTAL CANDIDATES AND TRUST

The media is really quite a circus. While they compete for our attention under the big top of “news”, they seem eager to grab our shirt and yell at us that they are first or best at something.

What shilling for their employer this is. It might be a part of what encourages the wild speculation over how the last second has quite possibly change who the president will be, all about the race. This to to be expected in an allegedly fair competition, but nothing is much fair anymore about elections, and so freedom.

Being an unknown now seems a good advantage, you cannot be pinned down to your history, and history itself, depending upon who you listen to, seems to change. That the public is kept from any objective reality check, is to most every candidates advantage, they can invent a narrative. Which lobbying interest are really behind your favorite? Are you sure? Is someone more of a Christian because they seem to say they are? Is that what now decides the life and death issues, a fairly untestable faith? How did that go last time?

I can not underestimate symbolism, but it will be used as a double edged sword. Is one candidate the first black or woman, and is that the deciding factor in pulling a lever? I hope not, but I do believe these barriers are long overdue in being behind us.

Each candidate fear mongers in some respect, they have to plant a hope in you and that can be done in positive and negative ways. Even claiming to keep you safe with flags flying may look baby blanket warming, but it implies the others are not interested in your or their own families safety, that or are terribly mistaken in their ways and means of doing so.

We need this debate on security, but we need to broaden the definition of what security is. If you think security is might making right you will surely be wrong in the end. If you kill them all, what will you have become in the process? Opposite of everyone else who uses the same notion from their perspective? What about the other parts of survival contingent on security, like health care as just one of many examples?

Interesting how helping certain others outside your family is now called the “Nanny State”. While if you inherit, win a lottery, or by hook or crook become wealthy (Hey even farm workers work hard!), you can look down of the poor or in your eyes lowly of status and claim Darwinian or even character self righteousness.

Humans are humans, and if one thing they do not let go of is what someone did or is alleged to have done to them and their own. Survival is in every-ones interest. Every time someone is urged to be eliminated because they are out to get us, we can be lured into that historical loop that never ends, or seek to understand why others hate us or we them and see what reasons exist that make these differences real to each party.

Most religious teachers who created religions had or were “illuminated ones” who preached compassion, empathy, even nutty things like love your enemy, BECAUSE they could see how history could be freed by understanding. Then as time went by these same religious institutions often splinter or become more interested in their turf than in their original teachings. Words and beliefs can be turned around and upside down by the spirit one is possessed by in presenting the new and improves tenets. This is also true of individuals and nations.

The USA was assumed by many of us to have an illumination sort of approach to the world. We were listened to because we stood up for individual and national freedom with our bodies, such as in the world wars. We fought against the darkness of ignorance itself, guise in separation ideologies of superiority and contempt for those who are different, requiring domination.

Before WW Two was even over, the ever paranoid in us were competing over the “brains” to be salvaged from Germany. We must face this trouble about competition when it is tied to secrecy and the institutionalized inability to know what someone else is up to. We push the world ever closer to elimination by annihilation, or somehow, by actions, prove we are trust worthy.

We prove we are trustworthy and we make that top to bottom, through and through. That is faith alive and well and it will be humankind’s last chance. It is the last chance for any healthy relationship! Only truth sets us free. Not my opinion of truth, but my faith in standing with understanding even when the evidence says you are a fool to do so. Now that is courage alive, the kind someone called Jesus Christ lived for. You do not need to be a Christian, an agnostic, a humanist, an atheist, or some form of pantheist to see the power is standing up for unconditional love.

Benafia