We have to look for it...

As much as I detest the latest political atmosphere, I have to admit, it has ushered in a new yearning to study and understand.  In the past when comparing political figures at election time, I looked at their past voting records or their platforms and plans.  If they aligned with mine, they got my vote, regardless of party affiliation.  What I knew intellectually was that even if “my guy” did not win, I trusted in his (or her) basic honest desire to serve the constituents and the country. The system, the constitution was working and I trusted it.

 

Somewhere in my trust of the system, or perhaps plain apathy or naivety, I did not see things change. I suspect most of us are like that.  I did not see the lobbyist filter in, the Gerrymandering become more and more ridiculous and many other tell-tale signs of the horrific changes that were coming.

And then there was Trump.  I kept telling myself that the RNC would never support such an unqualified and questionable candidate, they did.  That the RNC Convention would never elect him as the Republican candidate for president, they did. Surely the women and the Christians would rally against a man that openly “grabbed women’s pussy”, they didn’t. And surely the American people would never elect him, they did! (Well actually it was not the American People, it was the Electoral College).  When all of that was said and done and the shock wore off, I knew I still had the system and the constitution, I don’t…he has subverted even that.

I still wonder why good people continue to uphold and put their faith in a man that in addition to all that we do not know….pays off porn stars and playboy models for sex, that bankrupts 4 companies, has a history of not paying his bills, calls people names, and imprisons innocent children under horrible conditions.

We cannot fight him by arguing with each other….I suspect that is how we got to the place we are now.  Those that support him have some reason that I cannot understand or condone.  We cannot change their minds they have been blinded by greed and fear.  

The rest of us must look for and learn to find the good that binds us.  “Hate will never drive out hate…only love can do that”.  We have to look harder at each other to find our common bonds to form the movement that will overcome. I still believe that good and love will win in the end….BUT

we have to look for it and we have to work for it!

"Imagine"  John Lennon