Thank you for your kind words.
I would love if you could send light to the UK - we really need it right now.
I see so many parallels to the rise of fascism in the 1930s in the UK that it is deeply concerning.
The way so many people are normalising fascist behaviour and thinking it is is acceptable is just something I am struggling to deal with. It goes against everything I believe in, and it increasingly feels like I am surrounded by more people who condone this than not.
I wish I could say that this fascism has calmed down, but seems to have grown worse.
Anyway, that's enough from me. I feel as though I could rant about this and it won't help, so I am going to try and put my mind on something else as difficult as that is right now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57472032
The Liberal Democrats have pulled off a stunning by-election victory, overturning a 16,000 majority in a seat that has always voted Conservative.
Wow, I was not expecting that. A very a shocking result. I am so pleased they pulled it off. Could this be the beginning of the change for the 2024 election?
In the UK, the Liberal Democrats are the closest thing we have to the Democrats in the US. Generally they are considered the third biggest party in England to Labour and the Conservatives. In recent years they have suffered quite a bit, but hopefully they are on the rise again. They were also the first party I ever voted for when I was younger. They represent the Centrist liberal vote. Labour can sometimes occupy that poltical space as well, but in recent years they have been losing that due to divisions in their party and this has helped the Conservatives to win.
On a more positive note: The UK may be moving toward an astonishing ethical step forward: PM Boris Johnson is apparently trying to make good on his electoral pledge to enshrine into law the idea that animals are "sentient beings" and their feelings must be taken into account. The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill is a potentially sweeping piece of legislation which would require all arms of the government to consider animal sentience when forming policy and writing regulations. The House of Lords is currently debating the matter...
If this legislation passes, does this not represent a clear step forward in mankind's evolution?
The UK may be moving toward an astonishing ethical step forward: PM Boris Johnson is apparently trying to make good on his electoral pledge to enshrine into law the idea that animals are "sentient beings" and their feelings must be taken into account.
Thank you for posting. That is a beautiful direction!
As far I'm concerned, this is nothing more than Johnson appealing to animal lovers and environmental activists in the UK to make up for his other shortcomings as PM. Let’s see what the detail of the legislation reveals when it can be examined more closely. As you know, Johnson has a long history of making empty policies and false promises.
As for my previous ramblings about U.K. politics, I have felt for a while a building up of tension in the U.K. Lots of stuff falls under the radar about the U.K. here, but I could feel something in the waters for a while, and this whole explosion of racism and other issues coming out is just that.
I didn't share this before because I wasn’t a member of the forum back then, but I knew a year ago lots of people would die in the U.K. from bad decisions regarding covid back in March 2020. I told my family to prepare and keep safe and we did. All the lights went crazy in my house when I told my family. Obviously this may sound like hearsay to you all now, but I trust my feelings and intuition about what’s happening in the U.K., and right now we are going through some difficult growing pains (as indeed are many parts of the world) and this stuff happening is all necessary to create change, as difficult as it is to witness. Here in the UK we also have the worst cases in the world of Delta variant by country or territory:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1245971/number-delta-variant-worldwide-by-country/
We have rising cases of infections and hospitalisations, many people are still not vaccinated. Our government in the UK has also decided not to vaccinate children unlike other countries. Many health workers are over worked and exhausted and are concerned about a third wave, yet on July 19th despite all of this, all restrictions are going to be dropped and many vulvernable people with compromised immune systems left completely vulnerable. We also have a high risk possibility of having a 13 million plus waiting list for healthcare treatments including standard surgeries and cancer treatments. That may not sound very big compared to the population living in the US, but with a population of 66m in the UK with a shortage of nursing staff and hospital beds per 1000 people, it is a very big deal, and one of the reasons why so many have unfortunately died during previous waves.
As for the culture war and racial tensions, the main problem in the UK is that we have an extremely right-wing government and media who are complicit in creating the racial tensions we are experiencing right now.
@luminous Hugs and Love to you. Yes.. it is happening around the world...especially in the UK and the US. Sadly.... my view of politicians was shaped at a tender age. I worked for a major hotel chain in the mid 70's for about 10 years. Started out as a front desk clerk. My states legislature kept a reserve of rooms for members there the times the legislatures were in session. The level of debauchery - white men behaving badly regardless of age...blown up with their own self importance, getting drunk, f'ng anyone they could, sometimes in stairwells or rooms with curtains left open ..generally locker room behaviors.... like a bunch of hormone driven teen-age boys out of control... I learned then.... politicians choose that career for what it does for them..and for growth of their finances and power. Very few are that altruistic and are in it for the betterment of our society and people. Jimmy Carter has and always will be ...one of my true heroes. Joe Biden is also one of them.
@journeywithme2 thank you for your kind words and @ana too from the other thread yesterday.
I wish things were calming down, but they seem to be getting only more chaotic. Just when I think I can shut out what's happening here, something occurs that affects me personally in some way. I don't have the energy to engage in the ground up movement to fight this, mainly because of health reasons, but that doesn't stop me feeling the way I do. I'm not even sure it is my fight to have right now, but I love my country and I hate to see people destroying it for self gain and interests, so it is impossible to not feel something.
It's hard everywhere in the world right now. But one of the hardest things is watching people hurt other people either with violence, oppression, legislation etc getting away with it. When are these people due their karma for what they have done? The next life? It seems unfair to me. They are living in paradise while creating hell on Earth for everyone else.
Some people say we are in the cycle of Kali Yuga still and sometimes I can definitely believe it! Others say we are transitioning to Dwarapara Yuga from Kali Yuga and this transition tends to create a lot upheavals - see Graham Hancock's work where he discusses this.
But one of the hardest things is watching people hurt other people either with violence, oppression, legislation etc getting away with it. When are these people due their karma for what they have done? The next life? It seems unfair to me. They are living in paradise while creating hell on Earth for everyone else.
Well, I can tell you what I believe. First of all, I don't believe all the hurtful people are "living in paradise". They might have yachts and fancy homes and influence over others, but is that paradise? I believe their desire for power and money stems from a deep emptiness inside. They are decidedly not in paradise-- if they were content and at peace, they would have no obsessive drive to go after money and power in such ruthless ways.
Second, I think karma will out. Once in a great while you get "Instant Karma" but most often it percolates and seeps in and grows throughout a lifetime and most likely beyond this life.
They will eventually reap what they sow. We may never get to see it, but that's OK. In fact it's probably better that way. Schadenfreude is a temptation it is best to resist.