FAKE DEMOCRACY

How can true democracy exist?

It needs basic requirements, most of which we do not have any longer, or never did.

The public needs to be informed from all quarters. Well these days, we hardly hear anything on the poor, the disadvantaged, environmental impacts of economic decisions. Mostly subdued by corporate interest. A good part of the damage was Ronald Reagan’s, destruction of the fairness doctrine.

Votes need to be counted under transparent conditions. Now without even paper trails, impossible to prove non-manipulation. This damage to democracy has been perpetrated by conservative status quo interest.

We do not even have a right to vote! It is a “privilege”, thus deniable by whomsoever privilege rules. This opens the door to mostly conservative interest to deprive voters a ballot.

A true democracy should minimally require a majority to elect any representative or president. It is unlikely but conceivable now that we could elect a president with only 40% of the vote. What kind of union is that? who will own it?

Without any fairness to the actual ability to reach the public, money has become the power behind votes and ideas.

In the end, an electoral college elects the president. Time for us to graduate to a real democracy.

If we want to talk about freedom. Under the lack of democratic tradition evolving here, we may not have much time left.

We have now a fake democracy.

Enjoy?

ARE WE FACING THE END OF DEMOCRACY?

THE PROCLAIMED CONSERVATIVE HERO RONALD REAGAN, DID MORE THAN THROW THOSE SELF SUFFICIENT SYMBOL SOLAR COLLECTORS OFF THE WHITE HOUSE ROOF. HE ALSO TORE UP THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, LAYING THE WAY FOR THE RIGHT WING CORPORATE ECHO CHAMBER THAT HAS MADE TRUTH INTO ALLEGED BIAS.

Who knows if president Carters solar collectors would have gone on to spark self sufficiency from US dependence on foreign oil, while lessening environmental degradation. The so called conservatives have done the opposite, sending the nation on this road to both empire making confrontations, and democracy undermining deregulation.

We have under the conservative rule, no interest in the Whole of society, except to keep “lower achievers” dependent on the wealthy for survival. This is a dominator paradigm. Just as New Orleans was abandoned with fingers pointed everywhere but to the very top. The American public knew the top executive could save an American city, if there was the will!

Unfortunately, with this new breed of opportunist conservative, every disaster becomes an opportunity for a friend or future interest to owe its allegiance to their cause. America itself is now surrendering its commons and its legacy of being a caring freedom loving people with responsibilities to all, to predators who are as predators have always been- out to stay on top.

WHAT I DON’T KNOW CANT HURT ME!—NOT!

Make no mistake about it. (That overused claim politicians use.) Business people telling editorial staffs what to focus on and what to drop based on economic bottom lines has convoluted truth seeking to avoid both the needs of society, especially the poor, and the truth that may reflect badly upon themselves. Eliminating the fairness doctrine was the undermining, below the American public belts punch, making full truth seeking to be defined as liberal bias. (I could read a thousand post on-line today, whining about liberal bias, but I would like to keep my own mind.)

Even liberals talk about; “No wonder Bush won twice.” while describing some Democratic infighting or lack of cohesion. Truth seems to be on the side that he never won fairly once, or at the minimum, the second time was a default, since it issued from the first cheat, and resulting failure to detect the 9-11 attack. All of this manipulated and contorted by the spin machinery of a “free press” that has no responsibility or accountability to providing the whole truth. It has been said that those elections, if carried out in another country, we would not have legitimized it! The Forth Estate, our freedoms guarantee, has a noose around its neck, watching the guy with the foot on the chair.

Even as a kid, when I heard William F Buckley speak on his debate show, I would be flabbergasted at how his ad hominem emotionally concluded barbs were thought of as intellectually honest, by himself! But I had grown up hearing similar ad hominem swipes. Conservatives especially, seem interested in getting the arguments out of intellectual accuracy, or any true empathy toward the plight and concerns of others than themselves. It is a peculiar self centering that thrives on name calling and cult like group think consensus reality passing as truthfulness, to not be questioned. Liberalism is by nature open to question, but not all proclaimed liberals are.

It is a travesty to observe the Democratic contenders, Barack Obama, but especially Hillary Clinton, use extraordinarily spacious logic to promote their cause. Surrogates and associations are now taken by the public as being the actual thoughts of the candidates, unless they are instantaneously disowned. John McCain seems to be given a bit of a pass on his associations, relative to the Democrats. I wonder why?

WHY VOTES MATTER AND HOW MANY

What is my actual position I hear some of you ask? Democracy’s must have fair elections to survive. They should also require a majority of voters, not some fractional plurality. Yes. We then require a more involved and deliberately knowledgeable public. What else? Whomever wins this coming time better include people from across their aisle. The damage done requires impute from more than one ideological bent. We need to return to the best and not the weight of despotic like loyalties sinking the ship of state.

We are one nation and one people for heaven sake! We must rise to the biggest sense of those words.

I have ventured into my own belief zone as my blog title exclaims. Yet I would be quite surprised to hear conservatives admit to mistakes, fundamental errors of judgment (except they were not conservative enough!) or any basic untruth possible to their philosophical positions. When questioning is the first thing they deflect, this state becomes their own lot in life. Now that they are trying to force us all to agree with them, and undermine attempts at fact checking and honest evaluations of situations, to protect their abstract delusional sense of purity. Their counterpoints in the world will both resist and respond with similar tactics. If their reign of illusion continues its polluted march forward, all democracies will be threatened with extinction. And possibly much more than that.

CONCLUSION–INCLUSION

That any of the worlds conservative movements cannot include the vast diversity of human ideas engaged toward greater understandings of environmental inter and codependencies is an anathema to the Wholeness of Life and Being that exist beyond tiny human comprehensive abilities. The accountable and responsible light that this awareness cast on being human is a challenge to us all. May the brightness of Unconditional Love cause their eyes to open, and cry into forgiveness. That is the proof of free will.

SELF CONTROL HAS RISEN; ascending with now.

BEHOLD. I AM RISEN
First of all. No matter how objectively factual any others story is, it becomes told in my mind, in yours. It may be true, may be an allegorical tale, doesn’t matter, except how it matters to me.

This is a primal redeemable truth: I am not outside my consciousness, my awareness, not how I can seem to assume. This may explain how an inner focus to awareness can produce self centeredness, a solipsistic view of life where all that is important revolves around me and what I want or need or think I am. Highly alienated individuals can be self consumed by a focus concerned with only their own needs and desires.

What degree of awareness is always the same or under the influence of body dynamics or that of outer environments? I am not certain that question is answered quite anywhere completely (exceptions being possibly meditation, prayer, or what is called at times cosmic consciousness, a sense of union with the Source of Being). Am I a modem, some simple interface between inner DNA, chemistry, memory and the unknown outer world in which I try to detect what to trust?

WHAT WE DO

It seems societies-culture has let a lot into my perception, to get its hands on my steering wheel, usually for the better but at times for the worse. These very thoughts are highly influenced by the words they must pass through, words from a historical-collective mass, language. Not to mention what mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents, kids at school and siblings and all the rest had to say to and about me, and how they assumed I was someone they knew, and truly understood for a while. I might have liked some of it and not approved of some, but am left what I got.

This outer influence is powerful stuff. It is not guaranteed absolutely to be right or wrong, but it may have set up much of my parameters of outer interactions in times to come, or even my whole life. I then have something akin to an assumed self and an assumed place in life. It may be one I always enjoy, have trouble at times with, or one I find much difficulty in. Especially if heartache, stress unrelenting, and a negative view towards the happenings to, of, and in my life seem to haunt my memories and occurrences around me, I might need a change. But where can change come from?

THE POWER POINT

How can I have any control over a seeming relativity of fate that surrounds me with what I am disappointed in? How can what I have always known reverse its apparent course (or curse) and become something more wrapped around love, beauty and respect, a place of inner peace that has so far eluded me? People, Spiritual institutions, even advertisers, claim to help me to do this, but what is the fact of the mater?

THE POWER PLACE

WELCOME TO NOW!

Now is never gone from you. I am always here. Here with the Source of whatever keeps all that is going. I am undeniably connected to one vast Being. As if a drop in a stream, I may not know where I begin and end, or if those borders are actually the limiting walls of what and who I am. But no matter who the real me is, the guy writing this, I can be quite certain I have adopted notions about me that are true, false and between the two. I am in all likelihood being someone I am not, in the sense that others are in effect living through me due to the judgement’s I have let in about myself in part thanks to them. We are all in this boat. We may not come to grips with the truth that we are all in this boat together, but we are. I do not see or feel the end of the universe we are in.

Change only happens now. If I cannot change some oppressive sense I have about life, I am by inference, not being present with it. The power of being is right here in the now, with you. If I let go of my painful past assumption, I come into the new place, the place of transformation. Many religions and belief systems have a key in the now to unlocking the real me and letting go of the old one. The easiest one to grab a hold of is forgiveness. It embodies the act of present free will, to cut away deterministic like continuations.

FORGIVENESS IS ABOUT BOTH ME AND THE ALL THAT IS. IT IS ABOUT FREEDOM TO BE TRUE TO LOVE.

I believe the arts are symbols of a key to now, especially music, and particularly if one is a participant in music making. Music is one art most all humans do, and many other creatures perhaps. We could say we worship Being in a union of sound in mind and heart. It can be a participatory union with the transcendent qualities of ones identity and place, coming right out of now.

Forgiveness has this musical quality; where I am an active participant, and whatever judgement I am holding for whatever reason, is released by allowing a reconnection to occur with Source. It is cathartic because it acts like a catalyst in that way. Forgiveness is then a form of Higher Consciousness and resulting understanding, where instead of being trapped in a self centered cause, one embraces a higher Cause, which we could call a Grand Self awareness.

WHEN WALLS BUILT WITH ILLUSIONARY ROCK AND MORTAR FALL

For you, my words here are abstractions. They might seem true, but you cannot be certain I do what I say. That is just as well, since your freedom to be more present in the Now, is really all up to you. My statement that we (I), can be cut off from the fullness of present life, is quite possibly agreed with by you. The question is, how one finds that essential center when one really needs it, or if I can stay there and still deal with past and future speculations I seem required to attend to to figure out my path through life.

It quite possibly will require practice to undo past programming. Our programming is as if an addiction holds us for better or worse. One could say we are addicted to eating and breathing for good reasons we would not wish to end. Breaking harmful addictions are a matter of making a declaration to change right now, and keeping ones power there no matter the pull to fall back. That is when the present moment comes into full potential.

Harmful assumptions about life have possibly become neurally “wired” in, and require you to have some tools to rewire around the problematic issues. This may be aided by symbols, rituals, or talisman that act as reminders of where Center is and what you hold as a known Sacred Point. My self realignments can be aided by reminders of my direction when I get lost, landmarks to Home.

This has been one example of a space-time portal. A description of just one of the ways the weight of the past can be lifted from individual consciousness. It involves what we could call new but always present needs; the need for empathy, compassion, understanding unstopped by ignorance, that some of what people do to us may not be liked and understandable, but was done for what seemed to them, a sound reason, a reason quite possibly based in separation.

The separation may have originated in them, or me, or my impression. But what we call wisdom, or spiritually transcendent being, rises above the implied alienated subjective, reaching through space and time, to touch the Eternal Source. Now is that closest place, where the answer to separation is found, and the Song continues on.

Fortunately, you are right here with It. Enter at will.

JUST A TRUTHFUL WORLD

AND NOTHING BUT THE?

What a world it would be if we could live by the Whole Truth. The truth is by definition; not in contradiction with itself. The truth can seem to us at times to be incoherent as in paradox, or blind, as in by ignorance, but that “opposition” might relate more to our abilities to understand life and the universe than its actual fact in reality.

The universe is consistent in its laws of being, or it would not be able to be, that is consistency. For this reason it is sensible to reject the lazy, convenient and opportunistic driven existential relativism that gives equal merit to truth and fiction. There is an inherent and inherited drive to Truth.  Yes with a capital T.

BUT WHOSE IS RIGHT?

Politics and religion make great distinctions over what is often actually varying limitations at interpreting reality and agreeing on its parameters available to human comprehension. Truth is in effect, argued as relative to a mistaken subjectivity, and an abstract untouchable perfection, for many belief systems, the two can never truly meet.

In these our environments, we explore our differences in perception to advance the cause of greater truth. It is the contention here, that we can enlighten ourselves by activating our critical thinking abilities rather than denying them for what appears to be current or comfortable self advancement. Orthodoxy’s, as status quo question free zones, adhered to like security blankets, can institute and worship ignorance in the place of God, or if you will, the Universe of Truth.

WHEN DECEPTION (TEMPTATION?) WHISPERS; “It’s yours! Take it before someone else does!”

When the self “advances” at the cost of the Whole Truth, one is in fact self-deceiving and self-defeating.  One cannot bypass the truth (universal reality) without dire internal/external emotional and relationship consequences. Lies, denial and other deceptions set up the fields of disharmony, aided by what has been called cognitive dissonance, and, or, a temptation to not concern thought with the Whole; the dysfunctional world of opportunism opens.

It seems the universe is set up to honor those with an honest and open heart and mind, no matter the material results humans may impose on other values that serve to confuse appearances.  The illusion of “having” materially, has become a kind of substitute for both Love and understanding of oneself and connection to all that is. Fear of loss will be advanced, however, not just to give thought to protection from insecurity, but to control perceptions by steering thought away from the heart of the Whole matter at hand.

BUT ME FIRST ALWAYS

I propose that much of the division and conflict at home and in the world is because of self serving attempts to have things “ones own way” (no matter how well intentioned!) when in fact that way is the wrong way if it fails to stand up to the inherent objective standard of passion for the Whole Truth.

Though none of us are perfect with objective clarity, life hands each one the quest to be more whole and fulfilled. This occurs in a more lasting and unshakable way by drawing closer to truthful reality, perhaps necessitating the presence of ambiguity and nuance if clear and simple conclusions are not possible. This present position of uncertainty may require humility, implied conditionality of context, and most importantly, forgiveness; for oneself and others.

LOVE FOR THE TRUE WHOLE

Tired yet of all the alleged fact and opinion that do not meet this full and unbridled standard of illumination, but instead provoke the darkness of subjectivist separation via ignorance and its progeny; conflict? Then we need a field of honesty about the human condition; about the appeal of subjective gain, and the resulting imbalance that can then emit into the world and create dissonance that will self perpetuate as conflict (some internalized state of falseness to Being), unless it is understood for what it is.

We each must acknowledge that internally and in the outside world of others, the Truth faced up to in the light can be painful to behold, making it seem a challenge to embrace the light over the darkness. Light can be blinding, if not humbling, to find in the presence of Truth that ones past assumptions have proven to be in error, and admit that that error has brought pain, discomfort and confusion into the world.

THE PAIN THAT PRODUCES GAIN

Our work at exposing what is hidden may bring this pain into the forefront to be processed. Yet true growth of individual perception only comes after this transcendence of deception and illusion. This effort is then dedicated to the proposition to be true, whatever it takes.

This is to Whole Love. May it hold us all in Its arms.

DEMOCRACY; LIBERALISM, CONSERVATISM AND DEBATE

AN OCOTILLO CACTUS ON A MONSOON SEASON DAY

ARE HUMAN ADVANCES, SUCH AS THE LONG MARCH TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY, (THAT CURRENTLY LETS US DISCUSS POLITICS, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY AND REALITIES) HAVE THESE CHERISHED LIBERAL VALUES JUST COME FROM MAKING NICE?

I like the cactus, its often lovely flowers, as a red-orange flame on top. It exist in this harsh desert environment, partly because of its thorns. Thorns of a sort protects most water caring individual cactus, from being plundered to death and extinction. Most all cactus fruit are edible

The current allegedly endless war on terror, is said to be necessary by conservatives of a sorts, because our opponents wish to plunder us and do away with such liberalism’s we enjoy. To do this endless job, we need, the argument goes, to draw back our freedoms (to defend them) and retreat into a quasi authoritarian state. Limit our freedoms, put them into conservative ideological hands, to save them from the enemy that hates them.

Liberals and libertarians who suggest that this is throwing the baby out with the bath-water are called terrorist appeasers. The most popular analogy conservatives of the pre-emptive force type offer, is how certain historical figures did not oppose the Nazis as they rose to power. Point taken, but taken to where?

NAZIS AS TAG FRAME

The Nazis used this very reasoning; developing a superiority complex ideology, targeting Jews and many others as the devil (evil), then pre-emptively attacking all who oppose them. But here comes my real point about points on cactus or bayonets.

The values we cherish under the umbrella of freedom, were not handed to us through history by the good will of the Hitlers, Stalin’s, or Mao’s of this world. They had to be convinced we would not forever live under authoritarian tyranny. Most all of us have some ancestor or know of someone who is putting down their lives to stand against the will of one, by living as a thorn for the will of all.

Forces in the world that control social and economic interest, are attempting to place their own barbs, on challenge to their sometimes invisibly imposed authority. They wish, for whatever reason, to hoard life to themselves. They are reactionary in that respect, against the will of the whole, against the liberalism of Christ, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. They count on us to be spineless; to be pointless, to meander in a make nice mentality, where our own fear of defending freedom and self responsibility, for the illusion of stability, surrenders it.

OF THORNS AND FLOWERS

Vibrant democracy, as vibrant discourse, can handle strong emotion. Freedom requires both expression of idea and need, and the will to keep it in the face or eroding “reasons”, that will leave a canyon between various aspects of the whole population.

Some may wish to live in a cult like atmosphere where no-one expresses their fears; where no-one shouts; I am hurt!; where no-one says you are taking from me and denying it by words and deed. The far rights vitriolic fear machine has many crouched in a corner, fearing a conflict if they stand up for truth and justice, or just a different point of view to theirs. They have done this even to the point of threatening to send their own private army to your door, oh dissenting one.

I can see the feeling to avoid conflict. Many of us would rather live in peace than conflict. I certainly would, but not by ignoring the truth that I know and must express freely. Many, as Hitler rose to power; thought their friends and neighbors would surely not turn against them. But many, by fears manipulation to survival, did.

I hardly believe freedom and responsibility are achieved and preserved without strong emotion. I see no evidence of this but in cults. Where the surrender of ones own will to the cults figure head, can hardly be called freedom or responsibility in any honest frame of reference. Democracy and freedom require vibrant debate, but they also then require extended respect, not threats to ones own freedom to express.

IDEOLOGICAL CIRCLE SIMILARITY

The far left and the far right end up at the same place–pre-emptive attack on the whole to preserve their ideological purity. Big idea differences but hardly any difference in behavior. Harm becomes a “good” to place on those other than yourself and tribe identity.

I am OK with those who sit out the pointed needs of our collective freedoms and responsibilities because they cannot take (or reject) the occasional pin point to their ego or identity. They are either ruled by fear, or absolute Good.  And who am I to decide.

But those of us who debate and show some underlying respect; that we allow differing ideals, ideas and opinion, that we, as they once said; “I disagree with you to the core, but will give my life to defend your freedom to express your beliefs.” If this be our stance, then we will maintain democracies blessing. But if out of fear we say; “Sure. Take it all a way. Just leave me safe.” Then democracy will be taken down in the desert of humankind’s opportunist ability to be, cruel and unjust.

I live for the day humankind puts understanding before fear, places compassion and empathy before insecurity interest. But until that day of love and peace flowers, as it one day must if we are to survive, its fruits will not be known unless the path to understanding remains protected.

THE PRESIDENTIAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO TRUTH

WHY IS THIS QUESTION NOT ASKED OF CANDIDATES FOR HIGH OFFICE?

I know they raise their hands over the Bible or something, in front of a robed character, swearing to uphold the Constitution, when it is in effect too late and they are being sworn in. That appears to be not good enough according to our history.

We should be well aware that the presidents, perhaps as commander-in-chief(?), seem to give an order to themselves that anything goes when it comes to guiding the public to believe in things that are factually not true. The truth, it has been proven, they need not even pursue. Part of being a hard decision making god like leader I imagine?

Well this situation has proved fatal to so many, and itself seditious to our country, our reputation, and our present and future. Treason has even become a political tool of manipulation (with immunity with one parties control and a failed fourth estate), something no free country can endure and keep its decency, let alone universal rights or freedoms. Something must be done.

WE THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE OUR ANSWER

We need a Presidential Pledge of Allegiance to Truth, one made to the public during the campaign. The pledge needs the teeth of sworn acknowledgement and eventual enforcement; that when any harm ensues by the president knowingly, in the face of contrary evidence or doubt, declares something that produces documented harm to be true, when in fact that “truth” is not unquestionably certifiable; that she or he be held to account.

(National security issues under question will be handled by defense and or intelligence committees, sworn to secrecy, their evidence and access on the topic not to be interfered with. Those findings will be presented to the team of judges also so sworn to secrecy, with most severe consequences to be applied to any breaching of the nations private information.)

The Presidential Pledge of Allegiance to Truth Committee, made up of a balanced representation of the US, will demand that congress appoint an independent team of experts on the alleged untruth to determine the validity of the claim held against the chief executive, or they shall themselves so appoint it. If it is found that the president was willfully largess in stating something as true, indicating the truth was not held as the measure of policy, they will be impeached on such offense or resign their post, and a new election be immediately declared to occur in a month(?).  While the line of succession to the presidency steps up in the interim.

This is a simple Pledge of Honesty, not the kind we currently hear about taxes or whatever. We cannot be electing the head of the most powerful, and thus potentially destructive or constructive nation on earth, and allow that person to deceive us openly and at will. Congress does not uphold its authority, it has forfeit it. We are left to our own devices to see who will promise not to deceive us for any reason, and be held accountable for so doing. How can we not, and survive? Are we to represent to ourselves, our military service, and the world as the country that defends deception?

MAKE IT CLEAR, CLEAN AND STRAIGHT

In essence, it is a simple statement; will you not lie, obfuscate, cheery pick facts, irresponsibly plant or accept false stories and information, seek out only your own viewpoint, or in any other way deceive us, the nation whose constitution you swore to uphold? Yes or no, no caveats.

Will you swear to be immediately held accountable for such misinformation being used to manipulate our nation? And will you promise, not to be excused and never do it again, but to step out of the way of the truth, that we have an honest and forthright government. And not one, of characters and ideologies that seek to remake it into their own false image, by employing falsehoods as the fabric of our American creed, hidden behind the Cause of our nations flag. Democracy defeated.

This pledge sworn to the public will be construed as the candidates prime directive, to be implied as supreme law upon swearing in. It will thus be considered a retroactive mandate by the candidate to the Committee on Presidential Honesty, its court and team of judges. Our hearing the Pledge of Allegiance to Truth to the United States, by the candidate, will be construed as fact applying to their office.

This is a matter of saving out nation (and world) from totalitarian ruin. We have witnessed the lack of any authority to uphold the truth in and for high public office. The spirit of this pledge should also apply to any party in office manipulating the nation to benefit its own interest above the interest of a free and fully informed democracy.

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

DO NOT VOTE FOR ME OR THE COUNTY WILL BE IN RUIN

I’d like to see someone actually try running on this as a platform. That way they would not be opposed. I mean, their opponents would be at a loss for words. For instance, no one could say later; I told you so. While they probably will if anyone else won.

This political season both parties had “extremist” running that were probably more near what most of the population would agree with. As if by magic, they become excluded, and it is the case this season, even if they are polling better than the acceptable candidates. Makes you wonder who really pulls the strings.

We will not be shown the long distance realities. We will hear one party is better at defending the nation, without ever having the long distance reality check. Another will be called the party of the people or the working people, yet no matter who is in power, the tax burden, over histories arch, continues to be shifted from those who benefit big from American freedoms, to those who struggle to make ends meet, or work paycheck to paycheck.

I heard a speech from a conservative well known think tank a few years back, where the guy speaking indicated that we would need a pool of angry people indefinitely to make sure we have the right stuff to fill our military ranks. Subjectively speaking, this person looked exceedingly like what one would label as nerdy. He was a thinker, but it seems to be true, many of our nations protectors currently do come from poor backgrounds, where an income or the prospect of education, along with a noble role in the nation, prompted them to join up. This scenario is patently exploitative; we need angry people, angry enough to kill.

At 9-11, 2001, I had been near the World Trade Center just a week before. I picked up a friend at a local airport who went by them two days before to get on the Staten Island Ferry. I remember looking at the skies that night, 9-10, and wondering what tomorrow would bring. Where the world was headed.

While I was in Manhattan for several weeks before, I would get some rest (from working on an apartment) by sitting on benches with my partner on Broadway in the Upper West Side. I told her planes flying so low were bothering me. It seemed like an accident waiting to happen. They now seemed to fly diagonally across Manhattan when before they always seemed to go parallel down the Hudson, which I was near. Others probably went down the East River. Of my many visits, air traffic control seemed to have changed, or I was picking up on something.

As I left for LaGuardia in a cab, I looked out the window at all the huge urban area, all the water that went around it and thought; This place is so vulnerable. I felt ominously uncomfortable about it( as I recall the water access particularly aided this negativity). The next day after my partner returned, her daughter called us and said something was happening. I turned on the TV. I could see one tower was smoking.

When I (the only time I did) predicted a tornado to someone, one hit that spot less than an hour latter. The thing is; when I predicted it, one was hitting another high school at that very time. I lean to the idea that inner dimensions continue to connect everything that is, and at times we are sensitive, probably because of our proclivities in that area, to connecting for a moment. I have had countless psychic experiences to confirm that we do connect to one another somehow, sometimes.

I greatly digressed from the election notion for commotion. Gulp!

It amazes me to hear some political commentary, especially those much younger than I, like when I heard one see a replay of Colin Powells presentation to the UN about Iraq, the coffee shop employee exclaimed; “There it is! There’s the smoking gun!”. I had seen the same presentation earlier in the day and could tell there must be so little hard evidence, that they had to come up with drawings, innuendo, allegations, scare tactic stunts, with he said she saids thrown in. It was just propagandized info-slant parading as fact. It was astounding to see such nonevidence paraded (just trust the experts) on forward by the surrendered fourth estate as “convincing” doubt removing and the like. They seem to think we were both born yesterday, and probably after our mother fell off the turnip truck.

Conservatism draws its followers from no-think. No objective reality check involved. Instead biased rationalist stand in to verify the tenets of status and wealth, and whomever some contrived wedge issue can seduce into their ranks. They can become victims of their own faith in the assumptions of conservatism; that it is the sacred wisdom of the past(cannot be questioned); that it is automatically wholesome compared to the free thinking that should be required of liberals(an open mind is an empty mind); that status and authority are rooted in it, thus by following, helping to guarantee their favor(even other primates have the kiss up to alpha response); that by disabling critical thinking abilities, contrapuntal information is presumed false(no thinking required about info that cannot and should not be processed).

And by the way, liberals and leftest can be just as fallible in these respects, including me at times. It is somewhat easy to tell when one is engaging in cult-think when they have a word or two, perhaps a phrase that sums everyone else up; non-believer, infidel, pagan, conservative, liberal, socialist etc. These and many more can be used to remove the heart and soul of someone else. Reduce them to a few letters, then flush them and their hearts down the toilet of contempt.

We are naturally defensive when we feel threatened. After 9-11 I thought I might need to enlist, way too old, but better to use somebody who has lived a while than take those just beginning. My message is; real attacks create real recruits. I think if one is going to advocate a need to take lives, that should be done in the highest sobriety based on truth. If we are to ever transition to a peaceful world, the anger and hate will have to take a back seat to reason, which means truth telling to both the citizenry and the world.

We have seen that for some reason those controlling information in the US have been operating on deceptive fear mongering for opportunist agendas, all hidden behind God and the flag. We were lied to in getting into Vietnam and we were lied to again. I suspect that when the election of 2000 was carried out against the cause of democracy, the seed was sown for predatory interest to take over our beloved sacred abstractions, both of God and nation. Unfortunately everyone bears the consequences of this betrayal.

The truthful defense reaction of most men is to stand up against threat. That has been a male role here-to-fore, and it is one that can be manipulated by cleaver opportunist and propagandist. Others are threatened to a herd mentality behind “patriotic” truth or lies by implications they are aiding the enemy or somehow seditious, solely based on their insistence on standing up for the highest ideals of this country based on truth and not wild speculations or manipulative fear mongering dressed up as cherry picked facts. (Vallery Plame–Joe Wilson)

Keeping citizens greatly ignorant of both the world and interest in the US manipulating the world; (There is a book out I believe is called; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins), we remain at the mercy of dark forces masquerading as the source of our own defence. This cheating on the truth to the population brings back its inevitable blow-back. Lies and deception create monsters of the psyche, monsters that under alleged legitimate concern for the nation, suggest keeping a pool of angry people. What kind of vision for the future is that! What an insult to the nation and to men and women, to suggest we would just roll over and let our cities be taken over by; communist, fascist, or religious fanatics. Yet this blame Americans using their freedoms first notion, is paraded around as the one one party holds.

Huge sums of money are funneled into a Faux news channel, and raving ad homonym near psychopaths to seed conclusion ahead of reason emotionalized perspectives, to grab these very natural safety impulses that are native to humankind. Others think that if someone says they are a Christian (of the right kind) they nearly automatically get their vote. Others think if the person has unions behind them they must-be standing up for the regular Jane and Joe—WRONG.

We need information reform to be informed and honest citizens who can perceive what our true interest are. And we need election reform, so that money is not the deciding factor over the spread of ideas, political or otherwise.

We are a nation that can be true, right, defended, understanding of the world, and free as can be, and have a military with the respect of a priesthood, not a toy for political and ideological opportunist.