I belong to a social networking site called Quora. One question caught my attention. It asked as a liberal, is there any positive thing Trump has done. This answer really made me think. It is a good example of American consciousness that perhaps, we don't like to look at but after reading it, makes me understand the viewpoint of us by people who are not Americans. It makes me think that perhaps Trump is our Hegelian karma. Here it is:
Morning Face or Mourning Face? Both have irony.
I don't see it quite that way. I think Obama is who America wants to be in a good day. And Trump is who America wants to be on a bad day. After all, most Americans are definitely not crass rich white men. The same way that some people, on a bad day, honestly want to commit suicide, the average American, on a bad day, honestly wants to be a crass rich white man.
“The average American?” What is an average American?
I don’t think you really mean from your heart the words I’m reading. Maybe I’m misunderstanding.
But it seems like negative stereotyping of 300 million people.
Rosewella, I am very sorry if you were mistreated by people when you came here. I can’t speak for whoever did that to you or anyone else.
Maria, most Americans on a bad day want to be a crass rich white man?
Please explain if I’m taking this all wrong.
Whoa. Oh my. Everyone - take a breath. This site is so important to those of us trying to make heads and tales of what on earth (earth!, our home) is going on.
Our present President and his administration is what needs attention and focus.
I check this site every day. Every day. Jean, it’s a fabulous service. Time consuming and full of love. How else could you spend so much time and effort taking care of it. And us.
The psychic energy of this group is so helpful to me as I think ‘Whaaat???’, most days.
It’s a big country. It’s a complicated country. It’s a multicultural country. Its an ethnic country. It’s a WASP country.
Please. Read Ken Wilber, ‘Trump and a Post Truth World: An Evolutionary Self-Correction”.
Finger pointing will stop after reading his analysis. It’s stunning and so clear. The entire world is experiencing this correction. Trump is simply playing a role.
And making some of us very anxious.
Please return to amazing predictions and, to the best of every one’s ability, leave personal opinions outside the door.
I used to work on post surgical patients in a local hospital. A tough love mentor said, ‘Keep your personal stuff outside the door. The patient is vulnerable and can’t cope with it.’
The Patient - The World - is vulnerable and can’t cope with personal stuff. We need your best face forward.
Please.
And Thank You.
One positive thing Trump has done?
I can only speak from personal reflection.
Trump has provided me the opportunity to get more involved in my community, fight for my beliefs and for the betterment of my city, state and neighborhood. He is the reason I no longer take my rights as an American citizen for granted. Since he has become president, I am compelled to act with more love and greater kindness. He has made me realize that any nation, even the U.S., is just one leader away from becoming a "Nazi Germany" and that if I don't stand up for my neighbors, who will? Trump has broken the lens filter and allowed me the opportunity to see the world with more clarity, the good, the bad and the ugly. I would say he has encouraged me to become a more an ACTIVE activist and move a bit out of my comfort zone. I ask myself "what can I do?" more often AND then doing something. I am also more aware of the privileged life I have led. I would consider myself an average American though I am not sure what that means anymore. Something else to re-evaluate.
I have a feeling I will learn even more before his term is over.
Obviously, a big ouch. I hear you, Jeanne, Lisa, Lovendures. I am woked up and appalled. This is the song and these are the lyrics that play in my heart. It's the song I played students in my black robes on the day Trump was elected. It's the song I played when I told a young African woman in tears that she was born for this time, and I would be standing beside and behind her all the way. It's the song I played when the young white man sitting next to her apologized for voting for Trump because he didn't know he was hurting her. I am back the trenches, where I will rise up with all of my kids again and again and again. We are better than this, and we are going to change our lives with our children in our loving arms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNKu1uNBVkU
You’re broken down and tired
Of living life on a merry-go-round
And you can’t find the fighter
But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out
And move mountains
We gonna walk it out
And move mountains
And I’ll rise up
I'll rise like the day
I’ll rise up
I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I’ll do it a thousand times again
And I’ll rise up
High like the waves
I’ll rise up
In spite of the ache
I'll rise up
And I’ll do it a thousand times again
For you
For you
For you
For you
When the silence isn’t quiet
And it feels like it’s getting hard to breathe
And I know you feel like dying
But I promise we’ll take the world to its feet
And move mountains
We gonna walk it out
And move mountains
And I’ll rise up
I'll rise like the day
I’ll rise up
I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I’ll do it a thousand times again
For you
For you
For you
For you
All we need, all we need is hope
And for that we have each other
And for that we have each other
We will rise
We will rise
We’ll rise, ohh ohhh
We’ll rise
I’ll rise up
Rise like the day
I’ll rise up
In spite of the ache
I will rise a thousands times again
And we’ll rise up
Rise like the waves
We’ll rise up
In spite of the ache
We’ll rise up
And we'll do it a thousands times again
For you ohhhh ohhh ohh ohhh ohh
For you ohhhh ohhh ohh ohhh ohh
For you ohhhh ohhh ohh ohhh ohh
Maria I appreciate you and thank you for so many awesome posts. It is a challenge to keep it all kind and safe. I’m sorry for the pushback but it is wrong to stereotype. Breathing here. I think we see in others what we don’t like in ourselves. I want to turn that around in myself. See the good.
Jeanne, what I meant was, it's undeniable that a lot of Americans see Trump as an attractive figure and somebody they'd like to be, because they voted for him, and they watched The Apprentice and loved it. You can't get around that. It may be a hard fact to accept, but he did get voted president. Maybe it isn't true for literally most Americans, but for sure for the 20% of Americans that voted for him, and probably for something close to half of Americans.
Anyway, thinking a bit more about this post, it raises some flags about it being potentially a psychological operation by a campaign operative on the Republican side. It isn't very normal for somebody to see a question in Quora and write on another forum, rather than replying there. Also, the main idea was something about what America really is - I always find it suspicious when somebody wants to define your identity, especially if it's to bring you down. And the whole "can you see something positive in Trump?" is the classic "re-education" question: asking captured prisoners whether they can see flaws in their own country, or something positive in the enemy's country, is how you start to "re-educate" them.
Also, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with prophecy and consciousness - did anyone think it does?
Good point.
No. Not at all. Red flag. Red flag. It had the regulars spinning and sputtering. Dangerous. Whatever that was, it’s underlying intention was to blow things up. Turn one against the other based on personal viewpoint vs. psychic information. Things can unravel pretty quickly.