Reap what you sow, chickens come home to roost, Karma, etc. raises a rather obvious question which will not be greeted with warmth I’m sure.
It is hard to step back and look at things without the mindset and worldview you have been unconsciously using for years. In fact, for some it seems impossible.
Here we are in 2016 and things are really not going all that well.
Our planet is in very big trouble and the bad news compounds all the time. We did not really understand the tipping points and feedback loops and hidden sources of trouble as well as we should. No one is to blame for this but screwing up still has the same consequences even if there is no one to point the finger at.
We sort of slid into his election season on the slippery slope of off year elections with the good guys losing because people just don’t seem to like to vote anymore. The “accepted” mindsets and worldviews don’t seem to have a convincing analysis of why this has happened so we blunder forward.
Our two party system seems to be finally reaping its own Karma for having prevented real democracy for a very long time. The primary system and other ways of choosing candidates haqs not been democratic in any real sense of the word. This time around Bernie and Trump seem to be on to something.
The word “establishment” has become a signal for all sorts of nervousness among those it is applied to. The denial that the system is rigged is not convincing when the establishment rigs it so openly. We even have a new oxymoron being offered to people on this site: “liberal revolution”. Someone please explain to us what this is supposed to mean other than a use of the word revolution to try to satisfy the counter revolutionaries.
We have been a country that lives in denial for a long time. Notions of patriotism and Nationalism always drown out any attempt to face the way we got here. It was through Colonialism, genocide and slavery along with the abuse of women and workers of both sexes.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, has warned us that the deep seated racist hate and xenophobia that is an ongoing part of our culture is seething and can burst forth at any time. How is it dealt with? The usual way is to cover it up while using it to keep people divided against each other.
The political system is so corrupt that the world is in awe watching us pretend to be the paragon of democracy and freedom. It is even more ironic to look at us telling the world how to behave and using force when we feel like it. I share the amazement they have when it is demonstrated again and again that we have large numbers of people who buy the whole package.
So now we are in the process of going even a step further in this surreal drama we call politics. We will see a clear division among the “good guys” around what it means to have a political revolution. One side will work for that revolution while the other will work to destroy it and substitute still another way of promoting the establishment and the status quo.
Meanwhile the destroyers are preaching togetherness and the need to band together to stop Trump. Harry Reid correctly noticed that Trump’s making has brewing for a long time. He correctly identifies one component of the complicated process that led to his rise. He will never see the role the “good guys” have had in in bringing this about because that is invisible to his branch of the establishment. After all how could the good guys be responsible for this in any way?
We have been in similar situations before. We have lived with the rigged system for a long time. Is it possible that this time it is different? Is it possible that if the real revolution is crushed now it will be too late to rebuild it before catastrophic consequences in nature and in human society take place? It certainly is possible an to many of us who have devoted ourselves to studying the situation it is inevitable.
So if you believe that you reap what you sow you have some heavy thinking to do and it needs to be done rather quickly. Meanwhile those of us who have already done all that will struggle on. We do not need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.