It is not about who is right and who is wrong
It is not about the left or the right the blue or the red the democrats or the republicans
It is not about one who supports immigrant rights
And who supports the war
It is not about who speaks louder and who debates better
It is about our belief in the rights we desire for humanity
It is about the right for our own freedom
And those that we love
The children, the people of all cultures and countries
The rights for women, blacks, LGBTQIA+ Mexicans, Ukrainians, Palestinians, Israelis
The rights of people without money
And the right to live their lives as people with money
It is not about hating one part and loving the other
We cast a vote to a flawed system
That proposes a national leader that is simply a reflection
Of the flawed state of being we have gotten ourselves into
Who are we to judge
The state of the world, this man’s a crook
This man stands for money
She stands for what..
I am ignorant I will say
As I back out of these debates and media brainwashing
I ask who are you in your life?
Who are you in that which you strive for?
Why do the Trumpers vote for this man?
How can we understand the fear and the hopes and dreams that drive them?
It is not about othering those that voted the other side
We had two proposals neither were great, choosing between bad and bad
Hopes put behind a puppet that symbolizes our values
We cannot hate 60% of the population for voting for what they might have seen as hope
The question is what do we stand for and how do we bring that into our daily lives?
We are on social media all day, permeating our brains with nonsense
Anything and everything and the algorithm just reinforces what we choose to believe
What are we actually doing with our lives?
To improve happiness
To improve humanity
Community
Relationship to nature
Serving each other
We now spend 60% of our time on screens
Where is the connection?
Divide and conquer, this is where we’re at.
You want to have a word to say, a voice, hope
Get out and meet your neighbor
Enjoy the life you still have around you
Create goodness
Talk to each other
For god’s sake. We are humans with common needs and values
Can you not see that behind the facade of difference we all care about the same things
Safety, security, love, family, community, financial ease, freedom
Stop othering.
We will deal with what this president has to offer
And when rights are taken away
We must gather to stand up for that which is sacred to us.
By living, we stand up. By loving we stand up. By connecting we stand up.
The grief is there, if you voted for Kamala, I hear you.
I recognize the fear of losing the right to be human, the loss of nature and all that our fears project on the possible future.
We cling to hope in the hands of a head leader
But I ask what are we doing to change our lives and to heal around us?
We cannot win the war of othering and separation through hating those that think differently
We must learn to be curious, to understand what matters to each other.
Fundamentally we will recognize there is a union there is a connection
We are all looking to meet our needs and that comes with a different face of a strategy.
For all those of you who feel the pain of this loss, I hold your hearts as dear and your fears as real.
I invite you to let the grief move through, it is the only way to survive.
All that we desire is not always at our fingertips and letting go at times of that which we cannot control is the only way.
As we hold each other in collective grief over that which we care for and love maybe being lost.