Okay, everyone. I guess I should have more compassion for Lindsay, but right now he's using taxpayer money to try to destroy Barack Obama, sending out subpoenas and spending our money left and right. This is Benghazi all over again which was 9 or 10 investigations costing more than 10 million dollars of taxpayer money and repeatedly finding that Hillary had done nothing wrong. Why? Because they believe that if they can tear down President Obama, they can also tear down Biden in order to keep the Orange One in office. It terrifies me because they have no sewer polluted enough or deep enough that they will not go into. It's all phony, but it doesn't matter because it will bring down Biden's polls, and it will make Fox Fiction go nuts, and it will smear Obama's legacy. So, right now: No sympathy for Graham at all--at least not right now. Maybe if he gets in a wheel chair with a blanket around him, I'll find some compassion.
An "Army of gay escorts" with NDAs. Wow, so Lindsey spends his days fighting against marriage equality, and betraying Democracy, and his nights as a Pass-around Party Bottom. No wonder he looks so tired.
What really irks is that this was the worst kept secret in DC. Literally EVERYONE knows that he is closeted. So I don't feel so bad for him - rather than step up and join a community that would support him, he chose to suppress them and everyone else.
There is a saying in the south: "All families have skeletons, we just put ours on the front porch."
While I understand that people are angry with Graham about his perceived hypocrisy, can we please make doubly sure that our posts don't descend into covert or overt homophobia.
I will never get our society's preoccupation w sex and judging sex. I could care less if someone is gay...or bi...or straight. It is the least interesting detail to me about people.
I just want him to have some empathy.
Agreed, though the empathy part is difficult for most. I must say that I have about zero and below for evil-doers like Der Whacko Fuhrer and his ilk....
I have to ask myself "What would HH Dalai Lama do?" Still a dilemma though in that we are underlings....
I have said that it is best to give our unconditional love to those who deserve it.... and as for compassion? Just listening to the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" ...
Hmm.
I have found that the empathy comes more easily when I look at these dark individuals as parts of our collective cultural shadow. They didn't sprout out of the ground fully formed, bigotry and homophobia included. Those traits developed by growing up in our culture and living wetiko. When I remember this and think of all of the ways wetiko has manifested in my own private thoughts (who hasn't entertained racist, homophobic, or anti-ecological sentiments in the shadows of their mind?) I can feel empathy for the child soul-selves of Lindsey Graham and the president; the parts of their souls that were betrayed by the Age of Separation.
This sort of compassion can only proceed if we show unconditional love to ourselves. When you recognize that you have suffered under the grips of wetiko and separation from community, you can begin to see that everyone is hurt and suffering on the soul level, from the underpaid wage worker or refugee to the cop or Fortune 500 CEO.
@frank i truly hope that no one took my comments about Lindsey as a homophobic slur. I was really just trying to comment on him reportedly having an "army" of "escorts". I feel bad for the sex-workers, tho, because, eeew, all those republicans and creepy church officials that keep them in business. But i am not mad at Lindsey for being gay. I'm mad at him for not being gay enough! Gay enough to help LGBTQ+ community, instead of oppressing them for political gain.
I really don't care what people do with their own sex lives. I mean (and i know it's cheesy to say it), some of my best friends are str8t.
Hey @unk-p. I didn't mean to call out any specific person here. I've just noticed that in previous discussions about Lindsey Graham people have said some things out of anger without realizing how their words might be perceived.
Beautiful!
With much gratitude for the pure love that you poured into this Coyote.... ?
My soul sees yours...
Namaste'