Were you scared when you woke up this morning?
Did you have a horrible sense of foreboding in your stomach?
Were you outraged?
Or were you actually indifferent to the fact that the choice the American people made at the ballot box yesterday was in fact 'Hobson's choice' and to elect the devil seen was perhaps to reject the devil unseen.
At times like this, like following Brexit and even following the independence referendum in Scotland for those that sought independence, the risk is to become dismayed, the risk is to feel impotent. Dejection is the order of the day.
Always, and truly always, in these situations it's easy because there are only two routes to take.
1. Inaction
2. Action
You choose, it's up to you.
Become engaged and become informed. Examine your sources of information, search you heart for what is right and wrong and act accordingly.
Be an example to the people around you for positive change and when the time comes to choose again in whatever form it comes, do it an a reasonable, rational and informed manner. The next time you get to pick a leader... try thinking 20 or 50 years away instead of about the next tax break.
Sometimes in order to get to a better place it is necessary to wallow through acres of sh*t, well that's where we are.
It's no longer possible to paper over the cracks of a horrendously divided and fractured society but it might be possible to get to a better place.
For better or for worse, John F. Kennedy said "Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men"
Blog Post Number: 1123
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