https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57250<\/a><\/p>\nSteve preferred Hillary despite his view that she was corrupt because he
\nthought it would be easier to get the left on-board a future alliance with
\nthe right.<\/p>\n
I thought Trump was clearly better because of his wrecking ball style that
\ndisrupted the establishment political parties and media. I could not embrace
\nrewarding the Clintons in any manner for their years of abusing the public trust.<\/p>\n
Well, I “won” that discussion even though we both agreed that neither person
\nwas likely to be effective in office.<\/p>\n
Now we have President Trump and things are rapidly escalating and imploding at
\nthe same time. Foreign policy is in disarray as the world situation worsens.<\/p>\n
Domestically we have increasing turmoil as the left shows no willingness to
\naccept the election results while increasingly resorting to violence.<\/p>\n
Clearly we are in a unique historical period similar to the Civil War, the Great
\nDepression and the Viet Nam era unrest. How this turns out remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
Swami and I both support a new transparitsan political party. We disagree on a
\nfew specifics (like the reality of man-made global warming) but pretty much are
\non the same page regarding everything else. Our styles are different, too: he is
\nunrelentingly witty while I tend towards the serious.<\/p>\n
But the need is striking and our efforts worthy of widespread support. In a recent
\nexchange, Steve responded to the seemingly hopeless current developments with
\na brilliant passage that is heartfelt and especially inspiring to me at this dark moment.<\/p>\n
I have decided to share it with a wider audience in the hope that others will heed his
\nmessage and be encouraged to stay positive in the coming days.<\/p>\n
Here are the Master’s words of wisdom for today:<\/p>\n
We hit peak grace a while back. A lot of self-reflection in the self-reflecting pool will be required. The good news is, the veils are parted for those willing to see. And as you suggested, when the dust settles (if it ever does) there will be a true transpartisan opportunity as awakening libertarians will recognize that there is no freedom or liberty in Trumpland, and progressives recognize that only a movement from “deep center” can wrest the steering wheel from the oligarchs.<\/p>\n
Blessings and love to all who see this. Be of good cheer dear friends.
\nIn some way we must prevail and keep the light held high for those we love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}