Demonic? Trump wasn’t evil
incarnate until he ran for president against Hillary Clinton. He’s been in the
public eye since, what, the ‘80s. 30 plus years. I’d find this characterization of any man
somewhat entertaining if it weren’t such a sad reflection.
I understand half of the
country voted for someone else. I
understand the country has been polorized fifty-fifty for the last nearly 20
years and that it has escalated rapidly in the last 5 to 10. What I don’t
understand is the hysteria and destruction. I absolutely and truly hated the
policies of the previous administration but no one I knew called people names
or destroyed property or didn’t allow anyone
to state their opinions. A lot of people didn’t do that.
I’d say most of the people
who voted for Trump to be president weren’t enraged. They were tired. They were
tired of being called names by Clinton and her circle and her followers and the
media and looked upon as uneducated , stupid, no-nothings. They were tired of being bullied. Yes, bullied
for daring to follow a different viewpoint. They were tired of the Obama
administration using their governmental powers to do harm to “the other side.” There
are consequences to actions. The left
didn’t listen or care.
So why Trump? He wasn’t my
candidate. But he became that because of opposition tactics and internal
warfare waged upon the other thirteen candidates of the party. He was the last
one standing. And because the primary
system is flawed – by the time the primary votes happen in my state (MT), the
candidate is already decided by other states. There is only one person by then
on the ballot in my primaries. What needs to happen, IMO, is a one-time
national primary and the top two candicates of the field are who move on.
Trump became president
because electing the job position isn’t a popularity vote. It is a coalition of
states. The states were to have the supreme power in this country according to
the founders. It is structured so that
the states who are largest in land or biggest in population can’t rule the
others just because they’re big each and every vote. The candidate has to be
chosen by more than one type of citizen in order to win. It’s a very smart
system.
So ultimately, is Trump evil,
mentally ill, demonically possessed…. ? No. He’s just a man. Is he symbolic of the changes happening in our
conscious? Maybe. Is change bad? Good? No, it’s just change. Is it worth
creating so much negativity in your own life day after day after day in the form
of anger or fear or destroying relationships or hating people you don’t even
know? No.
How do we do it? Let go of
it. We teach children not to descriminate based on the color of their skin or
their gender or their choice of partner, etc. Don’t descriminate based on “side”
because then you’re adding to negative you think you see. See with love in your eyes and your mind at
everything and everybody also no matter the “side.” Be the change because there
is no one else but you.
Don’t know how? Start today. Pick one thing. Say to yourself, “Above all else, I want to see _____ differently.” Surround _____ with a white light of love. And do it a couple times today. See what happens. You’re healing YOUR heart and thoughts which heals the world.
BZ said: "WE HAVE THIS POWER."
You are proposing to "fight power" with the old paradigm of power. Love is the answer to create the change you want to see.
Gandhi said this:
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always."
And Martin Luther King said:
"A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
How do we love "the enemy"? Each one was born. Each one has a mother and a father. They eat. They drink. They have personal stories and experiences full of pain and joy. They are human. They are fellow children of God/Universe. They are each loved by God/Universe. But if we hate anyone not like us, we are not hating monsters or demons. We're hating fellow humans, fellow expressions of God/Universe.
God is in everything. Even Trump and those who voted for Trump. God is only love therefore they are also only love. You don't like what you see in the world at present. I get it. To see something different, see love in all. Personally change your perception to that of love and you will see miraculous change in the world.
The mantra for all should be "First do no harm". In thought, in action, in words. Harm to self as well as others because if you do harm to others you are indeed doing harm to self. Or another way: "In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you." That which is happening now is but temporary in the scheme of the soul.