The similarities are numerous between the McCarthyism following and the Trumpism following, even down to geography. The start of Trumpism was heavily fueled by Reince Priebus and Scott Walker and the Foxconn con-all from Wisconsin, McCarthys home state.
By the way, Foxconn Wisconsin location cost taxpayers billions, was never fully built and has been abandoned after multiple changes in their plans for the project. This all after the government took people's generational homes and farms for the land to still be sitting there as just mounds of dirt.
How I wish that this will happen. That Trump and his underlings will fade into existence and be ignored, isolated, and basically kept from any sort of power again.
But I am not hopeful.
Even after an election where Biden won by over seven million votes and where he won by 306 electoral votes, we are still seeing the chaos that is over government. We now have over 310,000 dead, millions hospitalized, states nearing bankruptcy and may soon have to lay off essential workers (police, first responders, etc.)
And yet what is happening?
After challenging the election results in various recounts, lawsuits (all the way to the Supreme Court), and even after the electoral votes were certified, what is going on? Trump and his minions are now trying to overturn the election in Congress on January 6, 2021. Senators and Representatives have already said that they will support such a motion. Will it succeed? No. (Thank God for Pelosi). But this is what they are focused on?! When thousands are dying every day, they are focused on helping a monster who still sits on his hands and refuses to help with Covid-19?
And to top it off, the Republicans, through their network of voter suppression, looks like they will deliver Georgia to the Senate as well. If even one Republican maintains his or her seat, the Republicans in Congress will use it as an excuse to fight Biden every step of the way. Even if Democrats somehow pull a miracle, it will still be decades before we can get this country back to the shining city on the hill it used to be, because hopefully these same Republicans will be dead and gone, and a new generation of voters (having witnessed the callous way Republicans have ruled) will turn their back on them completely and regulate them to the minority status they so richly deserve.
My fear is that we may never get to that point. We are dying now, and are powerless to do anything about it.
Yes, I know that state and local governments will rise and help the people. But what about for people in my state (Tennessee), where Republicans reign supreme? Tennessee now has the highest amount of infections per capita than any of the other states. Our Governor is an idiot and a Trump supporter. How are we supposed to survive when people like him block votes in democratic areas of the State (Nashville, Memphis) so that we always vote Republican and end up starving our own people? He wouldn't even expand medicare because it is "Obamacare," and now thousands are dying, while those that live may never recover their lives pre-Covid because they owe thousands in medical bills.
I know you guys see light winning, but after decades of living under Republican control, I know that it is hopeless to assume that the government will start function once Trump is gone. Nothing except a massive die-off of Republican voters and an uprising of Democratic and Independent voters will change this.
@allyn Am interested in your view of this. Is it a way around the obstructionist?
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-mitch-mcconnell
I wouldn’t count Georgia out yet @Allyn. Mitch has already publicly acknowledged that Perdue and Loeffler (or as I call her, “Insider Trading Barbie” - Just in time for the holiday season!) are getting hammered. I still feel like one seat is for sure and the other is still being shuffled, though interestingly that feeling has shifted from Ossof as the definitive to Warnock recently.
I think everything hinges on what is finalized from this incredibly lame, lame duck. Though we should count our blessings on one count - they’ve been so busy trying to keep the government from shutting down and getting a stimulus passed, they haven’t had time to do all the judicial appointments they were gleefully planning to do. Every time the talks start to sputter and the shutdown deadline looms, another Democratic angel gains their wings for the fight ahead :-)
I’ll add though, selfishly I’m really hoping for any sort of stimulus with direct payments. In 2007 a student gave me a jolly rancher that changed my life for the worse - it ripped off a filling which then led to a crown, which then led to a second crown, which then led to a root canal. Last week that tooth was finally pulled, and the two teeth around it were drilled down for a temporary bridge. And after break that temporary bridge becomes a permanent bridge. And even with two dental insurances, I got to hear those wonderful words “That’ll be $1500 please”
@allyn To send them light is to help them in their endeavor
No. I must disagree.
@Maggieci said it well. “The more we pray (in whatever form that takes) the more light will win. Our actions do make a difference in this "fight for the soul of our nation."
The Light will never aid any soul in its negativity. Ever. What the Light will do, much as the final Fairy Godmother in Sleeping Beauty does—transmute death to sleep—is to save goodness not add to darkness. Souls go through darkness, but the light is and always will light, which offers presence to the possibility of change—even when it takes eons. I do not diminish the horrendous damage T and his prisoners of delusion have created in this life now and I do agree T is one who has lost the light within. That said, when we are not evolved enough to send the dark ones Light ourselves, the Higher Power IS able to do exactly that.
I myself am completely unable to unconditionally love these folks but Immanuel (Jesus) Mother Mary, Kuan Yin, Buddha, Sanat Kumara, the Archangels, the Great MasterTeachers of Wisdom, all of them can and do take the Light we send to them and lovingly enfold the dark ones in Light thus allowing them to see again. Light illuminates and heals. It never aides the dark.
Affirmations work both ways. If you affirm a negative outcome that negative affirmation will aid the negative outcome. If you fear it, it’s yours. Therefore, if we acknowledge fear—and even when we don't really believe it we still affirm hope, the universe will he hope instead of fear and the outcome will evolve/transmute into a positive. Thoughts matter. By creating this forum Jeanne put into play a compounding of thoughts, which then became a vortex of Light empowering change. It works, truly, it does, Allyn, even when it seems so very slow. The dark is waning, the Light rising ever higher—now and always. ❤️ Truly.
My entertainment of the day was seeing that DT just named a branch of the military (Guardians) after a comic book(Guardians of the galaxy)
@yofisofi I worked with a Shaman for a couple of years. Hitler came up during a topic of forgiveness and Karma, and she said that he was indeed here to teach. She believed that thanking those that wrong us doesn't justify their actions it merely acknowledges the pain of their soul's journey and clears Karma for us both. It took 20 years for my head and heart to figure it out.
I'm no where near advanced spirituality where 45, the GOP and 75 million voters are concerned, but with time anything is possible.
I agree. I believe we choose to come here, we choose to experience, to play various roles. We do it to ourselves all the time. Some dark moment happens and we wake up, grow and then teach others. Light and dark (shadow), two sides of the same coin. I feel at our essence we are light but we come to this playground, called earth, to play, experience. If you don't believe death is the end, but a beginning to the next experience then forgiveness is much easier.
Don't get me wrong, I would like nothing more than for T to feel, experience what he has done to others. On the other hand, when I pray for him it raises my vibration and I feel lighter. T did not have a mother - she was sick and they were left alone to figure it all out. T learned how to gain "acceptance" and avoid shame - the father humiliated the older brother for following his heart. It's a sad tale. It's no excuse - it just is what it is.
Thank you, my sister in pessimism! I see you and appreciate the intelligence you bring to this conversation.
I agree that sending light to the individuals involved in what to me clearly presents as Evil only aids them, I feel like those that are truly evil to their core (e.g., Turtle McF*ckface) only take the light sent to them and feed on it like vampires. That being said, sending light to the situation in general and focusing the light on ALL the many, many victims of the evil and cruelty is a good idea.
I don't see the light side of things prevailing in my remaining lifetime. I think it will take 30-40 years to turn things around and I'm not entirely confident it will be doable. Humanity may be headed back to a dark age and may find itself greatly reduced, perhaps even to extinction levels.
And for our many members across the border in Canada - sorry but I have to ask why it is that your government has done nothing to help us? And I'm not referring to the pandemic - can't blame anyone for not wanting a bunch of infected americans crossing over. You all take in refugees from so many countries and give so many a fresh start, why do you make it so hard for Americans? Not all of us are gun toting religious fanatics with delusions of apocalypse!