Given the strange confluence of the new president’s first “presidential” speech and the growing scandal of Russian’s tampering with the election along with the help of one Trump advisee after another (Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation just today for his involvement (Or was it his lying about his involvement under oath? It’s all very strange here in Upside Down and Backwards World), it is equally bizarre that the country is still debating about who this man in the White House is.
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This emerging vision of a social structure defined by love, which we’ve been exploring since the Women’s Marches on Washington, goes by many names: intersectional feminism, eco-social sustainability, social democracy (arguably), the indigenous model (very possibly). The difficulty in naming it as a vision or movement or party (yikes) might be because it is really just love and emotional maturity.
What we have in the current Republican regime couldn’t be further from the freedom possible within a structure of love.
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Empathy is absolutely essential if you value the human spirit and all of humankind. In fact, without it, it’s impossible to experience that oneness that every religion teaches is the universal reality that contains all life and God and the infinity of space. Empathy is that capacity to experience our connection with each other and all living beings. Empathy is the sentient equivalent of gravity: it’s what binds us together. Any movement concerned with human rights, the health of the planet,
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by H. John Lyke and Kathryn Robyn
I’m so glad I’m still alive at 84, for I’m a good example of someone who has learned so much in the past decade. Watching the coverage of the Women’s March on Washington, Saturday, January 21, the day after watching the inauguration of an unqualified president has moved me beyond understanding. Both my daughters traveled from other states—one in Colorado and the other, New Jersey—to attend that DC march, and my colleague Kathryn attended a “sister march” closer to her home in Maine,
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Yes indeed, it would appear President Trump will do anything to be perceived as a winner, even if it’s done at somebody else’s expense. Being president of our beloved country may possibly represent the epitome of what he believes winning is all about, and in his thinking, “It doesn’t get any better than that.” He can’t seem to do anything other than reaching for the gold medal and winning at all costs. Being president of the most powerful nation in the world certainly complies.
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What Is Wrong with This Man Who Is Our New President?
Let’s look at the obvious first. So, the president-elect appears to pride himself on his unpredictability, using it as proof that he is his own man. The way he continually claims ownership of whatever is proposed or suggested on any subject by anyone else, he demonstrates most certainly that he’s not a team player. He is known to reject good advice if he feels it disregards his perception and way of doing things.
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And now, for the first time since WWII, we find ourselves in a nuclear arms race. And he’s not even president yet.
Last week, President-Elect Trump said he was planning to expand the United States’ nuclear arsenal . In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin retaliated with his own saber rattling: “The Russian Federation is stronger than any potential aggressor,” he said. “It’s very important to note that it’s not a coincidence that I put it that way. What does aggressor mean?
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An Oprah Winfrey special titled First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House was aired on CBS last Monday, December 19, 2016. In it, Oprah asks the first lady if she felt her husband, President Obama, had achieved that concept of hope for the American people that he represented when they first ran nine years ago. She responded unequivocally, “Yes, because we feel the difference now. Now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.
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After reading this lovely piece in the aftermath of the triumph of hatred and vapidity in the US election, we invited Kay Burch to offer it for this week’s post in Political Straight Talk. After all, sometimes the only thing to do is look for the biggest of big pictures.
Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has published a book-length meditation on a fascinating concept: Is beauty the driving force of the natural world?
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We’re continuing here with our discussion about the September 23, 2016, CBS This Morning show with Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey on the grand opening of Washington DC’s Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture. We think it’s really important for us as white people to get a much deeper understanding of racial discrimination as it has been historically and continues to be experienced by Black Americans. We also know it is similar to but not identical to all kinds of other intolerance of many groups,
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