100,000,000 People didn't vote in 2016! Yes 100 MILLION! If you are living in a district or red state that has voter issues, it's important to volunteer to help get people enrolled to vote. Especially in swing states.
Getting fired up for the light is also important. Sending light to our polling places and electorate, etc. will help big time. I'm on fire and will not allow the negative press, GOP and Orange nightmare deter me. ❤️ ? ?
Regardless of whether or not he has dementia at present, this is his biggest fear in life.
As someone of a certain age myself, I worry about the same thing happening to me.
So, I have some compassion for Trump about this -- it must be horrifying to be living through this in the public eye, feeling yourself decline, while grasping for (false) hope that it is not what you fear most.
And fear makes even perfectly normal people do crazy things. Therein lies the danger.
@rosieheart, thank you for this post. When we discuss in the forums, sometimes quite descriptively, about T’s physical and mental decline, my heart hurts. My mother passed away from Alzheimer’s and I witnessed her journey. As a 67+ old woman, I fear that for myself. Mom lived with my sister until her dementia progressed to the point where she needed round-the-clock care. When we moved mom to a long-term care facility and cleaned out her house to get it ready to sell, we found newspaper and magazine articles she had saved about how to recognize the early signs of Alzheimers. I can only imagine how terrified she was back then. The one blessing is that once the disease really took hold, mom trusted more and giggled a lot – something we rarely witnessed growing up. She no longer remembered her life of depression and anxiety. Mom became that child-like spirit, joyful and much more at peace.
I remember when the “Unraveling …” thread was first created, many of us were predicting shocking news (Mueller, etc.) that would result in T’s undoing. Each time our predictions were confirmed, many believed or hoped “we’ve got him now!”, only to see T get away with it – over and over again. Perhaps now we focus more often on T’s grotesquely clown-like, mental and physical decline, not only because we’ve predicted it, but because it is right there in the open, for the world to see. It’s something concrete that we can hold on to. You can’t make up alternative facts about what is standing before you. That physical and mental unraveling. In a strange way, witnessing that decline gives me hope.
I believe T deserves whatever karmic payback is playing out. If part of what we are currently witnessing is dementia, he’s chosen this public forum. People don’t love him, they fear him. And they use him. They allow T to make a mockery of himself, because they benefit from him having so much power. And yes, we now have criminals running this country.
There is no light, no love there. It’s hard to comprehend and live with the depths of his cruelty. We all desperately want his cruelty and lies to stop, as well as those in power who support him. I haven’t wanted to offer T compassion, because I tell myself he doesn’t deserve it.
Then one day last week flashes of that movie, "Ghost" kept entering my mind whenever I thought of T. Specifically, the parts where those dark entities engulf the demised antagonists in the film. I also remembered something else – Patrick Swayze’s eyes, as he witnessed the darkness carry them off. I saw them as the eyes of compassion, as if to say, “this is where your choices led you? What is worth it? How sad I am for you.” T has unleashed those dark entities onto himself, like a spiritual suicide.
I believe there is a place for compassion. I believe that only through compassion can I stand firmly in the light. Standing in that light strengthens me to face that darkness – not just T’s darkness, but my own. And as a nation, our own darkness. In the wise words of @mas1581:
Yes, he is challenging our democracy, but he is also exposing existential flaws in it that need to be fixed.
I am comforted by @jeanne-mayell's words:
Do Not Become attached to a time table outcome. Your attachment to a certain outcome at a certain time can crush your spirit.
See the long view.
Finding your light in the midst of such darkness is a win-win situation for you.
Hold on, everyone. Stay strong. Do whatever you can to take care of yourself. Hold and spread your amazing light. I have deep faith we will get there. And I love all of you.
So right and true, Jeanne! Thank you. I especially loved: The light-filled world is rising beneath the headlines.
Poetry of resistance, or rather poetry of assistance!
Gratitude for the chance to shine our lights, together and individually.
Much love.
@mas1581, I'm laughing out loud here. Wise and witty!
@triciact, 100 million! That's staggering. I'd like to know what percentage of that was apathy, voter suppression, etc. But perhaps that's not what ultimately matters. As you stated, what's important is becoming active in getting people registered, getting them to the polls, and fighting voter suppression in whatever way we can.
I don't know the stats on that 100M #, however in the past it has historically been more democratic or independent voters that tend to not show up at the polls. Add in voter suppression and the apathetic voter and bingo. I have heard all my life people tell me they never vote. They don't think their vote matters much.
Side note: I have pretty much heard almost every psychic on yt say they see trouble at the polls in November. A recount, much like the Bush election needed. It goes one way in the beginning and then another way afterwards. Could be why Jeanne saw Warren looking disappointed. My hope is that regardless of the proven cheating that will likely occur and manipulation that it gets sorted out correctly, even if that means we don't know right away who has won. It's more important then ever in our history to make sure that we all go to vote and get everyone you know out there too. The young vote is important because they are usually the most apathetic voters. I see the older/retired folks in my area there all the time.
@triciact, I remember for years hearing those same words, i.e. I'm not sure I'm going to vote because it won't matter. And most of these people would then point to the electoral college as the reason why they felt that way.
Do any of you think that young voters fully recognize the current threat to our democracy? They certainly understand the problems with our broken and corrupt system, which is why I fully understand their support of Sanders or Warren. But again, do they recognize how critically important it is to get T and his henchmen out of office? I can't get a clear read on that.
@5leafclover well, people like that never get assassinated. It's always someone with a kind message.
It's giving me anxiety to think that Drumpf Sr. lived to 93 WITH dementia. The thought of Drumpf Jr. living another 19 years makes me nauseous.
Would it ease your nausea if he lived another 19 years, with the vast majority of it involving him behind bars? I hope he lives long enough to serve all his sentences.