Wake Up and Smell the Hate
I can’t be still anymore…
Hate needs only a crack through which to enter the world, and grows insidiously, just as a weed. It prospers in the tiniest speck of light, which we gave it, long before we elected Trump to act on behalf of our country. One hater in a crowd is plenty to nurture it. This is why we must be vigilant. We must say “NO” and stamp out hate as soon as it appears.
We cannot say “Well, weighing all the factors, I prefer Candidate A to Candidate B because “A’s” economic, or foreign, or environmental or whatever policy is better aligned with my own… Yeah, I know he’s shown some racist tendencies, but that’s not my priority.” It MUST be your priority. It MUST be everyone’s priority, because nothing grows and prospers in hate, except more bad things — like fear, and violence, dis-functionality and death. You cannot grow a worthy economy or a child, or a garden fertilized in hate. Actions and behaviors must root themselves in love to blossom into the beauty and beings intended.
Two years ago, it may have made sense to some to vote on a strictly intellectual basis, without considering philosophical, moral or personal factors, but only because at some level these voters were able to separate their heads from their hearts. And therein lies the rub — a choice made by fragmented people. When we take our hearts out of the equation we are no…