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RACE.
Am I kicked out of your boomer party yet?
Bruce has carried the flag for many ayear…. his distillation of our purpose is so succinct… "care for the earth and each other."
At this point we elect leaders that are not advocating either of these agendas but rather of one selfagrandization, which incorporates, at the least, the belittling of others or at its most heinous, the complete disenfranchizing of whole groups – either by skin tone or income, including those within and outside our territorial borders. We are all complicit in this planet of clowns as we see fact as fiction and TV the true reality… We vote them into power and let them do their worst as we wring our hands in anguish and watch the endless news feeds, paralized by our own apathy.
Call it a Corporate driven Undemocratic representative democracy for and by the corporations to be more accurate.
I push back with Paul Jay on the human nature argument. 'm thinking part of our problem is that we accept this European perspective and key Machiavellian root assumption failure that man is inherently evil, because a few psychopaths retain power through theft, violence and the manipulation of the truth.
Mohandes Gandhi (1869-1948):
"I can say without the slightest hesitation , and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means."
Gandhi considered and described The Bhagavad Gita as his bible.
The lesson,  and it’s for everyone, not just American,  I think is both simple and hard, nuanced and straightforward, difficult and unforgiving. Democracy is something like a tree, as a wise person once said. Like a tree, it needs nourishment. And the three things that nourish democracy are reason, sanity, and decency. But do we remember that? And yet without those, without society really tangibly investing in those three things,  what chance does democracy have to endure? Not a very good one, my friends. let us remember this lesson. Democracy is nourished by reason, sanity, and decency. And if we are to renew American democracy, then it’s those things we must invest in,  as we’ve never invested before. And that, my friends, simply means giving them to one another. our society must invest in them. ~PEACE!