Pundits and pollsters are busy. People are expressing election fatigue and far too many are feeling hopeless. And regardless of outcome, there’s always more that we can do.
We can extract from the news what is relevant and stop believing every word as truth. We can fact check all of it and challenge the sources that seek to divide us. We can stop listening to the voices that demand our attention and our allegiance and instead demand their accountability. The media creates and destroys heroes. And we have allowed it.
We can face the historical facts of how militarism and expansion of empire have always been with us; and bring an end to this barbaric story.
We can stop waiting on elected officials to do the right thing. We elect representatives, not kings. We must demand accountability. To do that we must pay attention. And above all we must care.
For the past year our tax dollars have gone to a country that has gone beyond “the right to defend itself” and engineered a genocide. For decades, the media kept from us the plight of Palestinians who are forced to live under Israeli occupation and are now being slaughtered. And today the same media minimizes the tragedy of Sudan. We must ask who is being served? It is clearly not humanity.
We must realize and care that our police forces are armed with military equipment and that people of color are often targeted and killed.
There is so very much that we can understand and challenge.
The earth is in critical states of flux and people are migrating to safety. Our borders need human approaches, not more militarism. And when we are told “drill baby drill” we must demand a return to love of the earth and kindness to Nature, not conquering her.
In the chaotic days ahead, we will be asked to be human, to be kind, to share and to re -envision a better way for all. This is not an impossible request. It is what we can do.
let kindness win 