I’ve been watching Bernie’s podcast and Naomi Klein is brilliant. The extreme right gets the facts wrong and the feelings right. Working class Americans feel like the system is rigged against them and the left is not proposing any real answers to their problems. This gave Steve Bannon an opportunity to play on our fears and propose a set of strategies to fill this void. It doesn’t matter that their explanations for why the American dream evaporated were trumped up and lack factual basis. They can vilify who they wish – as long as there’s somebody to blame. Global elites, Jewish space lasers or immigrants streaming across the border. It doesn’t matter. They say all we need is somebody that will stand against the imaginary villains and stand up for the God fearing Americans.
I have railed against the right for having a platform with no solutions. That’s not true. Their solution is “lock them up”. It doesn’t matter that it wouldn’t help and would spell out the end of democracy. The dems offer tiny gains designed to offer a modicum of relief using the system we have now. Maga offers extreme changes that require burning the system down. Unfortunately, it’s fascism right out of Nazi Germany in the 30s, and will not only bring about the collapse of democracy, but will in all likelihood spell the end of human life on the planet as climate change makes it unlivable for all but the most resilient lifeforms. If Trump wins in November and the reincarnationists are right, get ready to come back as bacteria.
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R2’s stream of thought channeled into a sluice
Aren’t we kind of hostile bacterial entities scourging the earth already? Maybe the only way out is through, it’s like a perfect storm! Then again, there is most amazing phenomenon called grace. And another one called serendipity, and still another called Miracle. The opportunity for healing & regeneration is inherently abundant. It may be instant, overtime, or delayed over millenniums. One thing is certain, we cannot see the big picture alone from where we stand, however together we get a broader, deeper and more empowered view that may reflect solutions unknown to the s now. My limited picture is but one pixel in the enormous potentiality and absurdity of what we call reality in this life.