2024 US election: A Kennedy presidency? Trump again? Will it be rigged?
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Debra
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Knowledge is important, and part of that may be gained by wanting, trying to help, etc, and seeing what happens. Life experience in 3rd density STS. Knowledge may also mean developing additional 'moral taste buds' as one matures. I am reminded of the saying about first removing the mote from one's own eye so that one can see better to remove the mote from another's eye.
About the moral taste buds - it seems like the article explains that liberals/conservatives not only favor certain ones over others, but also apply them to different things. I don't think they're fully unaware of how the other expresses their morals, they just don't prioritize those things. It's like the abortion debate. Both sides generally understand, on the surface, what the other side cares about. But they can't put themselves in their shoes to try to really understand it viscerally. You may still ultimately pick one or the other, but you at least would stop acting like the other side simply wants to "kill babies" or "hates women's bodily autonomy" which mischaracterizes their concern. It would at least allow a conversation to happen, instead of just yelling over each other. But the benefits of sincerely putting oneself in someone else's shoes is gaining knowledge of their perspective. It may or may not be a flawed perspective, but you can't decide that without understanding it fully first, and you'd at least understand where they're coming from and why they got their panties in a bunch over it.
And I agree about the mote - I can imagine myself being a leftie for example. I used to watch John Steward make fun of Bush Jr back in the day, and had I never found SOTT and Cass, who knows, maybe I could've found myself sliding more left if I wasn't paying attention to the rug being pulled under my feet. A lot of things had to happen and come together "just right" for me to even be on this forum today. So in that sense I'm very lucky that I found material and a community that kept me "sane", or moving in that direction anyway.
But still - I have so many things I know I should be doing better and more often that I struggle with. It's easy to say oh look at those libtards crying, but it's harder to say "where am I being unreasonable or stubborn or blind in my life right now" that might frustrate someone who is a few steps above me and sees me waste my potential the same way I get frustrated with others?
I said earlier in the thread that that I feel frustrated that the leftists are such easy tools of the PTB and refuse to wake up and end up dragging the rest of us into their mess. But honestly, I can be just as frustrated with myself if I do an accounting of all the things I'm not doing that I know I could and should be. So maybe part of the lesson here, besides working to improve those things in myself, is to not feel so frustrated or beat myself up either.
I can understand and be at peace with why someone else is falling for some propaganda that I can see through, and accept that they're simply doing the best they can given their current understanding. If they knew better, they'd do better (maybe). I don't have to be frustrated that someone else isn't living up to my expectations of them. Everyone is doing "what's in them to do" to the best of their knowledge and ability at the moment. How could I expect anything else?
And I could maybe forgive myself, or be less frustrated with myself for not living up to my own expectations. Otherwise I might as well be frustrated with half the universe for being STS while I'm at it. And I doubt 4D STO, who are many steps above us, are looking at all of us in frustration because we all could theoretically be doing more. And 6D is looking at 4D being frustrated with their lack of progress too, and so on. It's just a chain of frustration all the way up, and it would be silly if that was the case.
So maybe it is a balancing act of seeing the evil in the world, seeing the "lack" in oneself, and somehow being more or less at peace with it all by understanding why things are the way they are. But not quite so much at peace that you don't keep pushing yourself upward to improve, or striving for a better world at the same time. Too much peace doesn't seem conducive to putting in effort to grow.
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This is how I am feeling tonight.
How could Trump win the election?
So many people were fed up with the corrupt Western Empire blob.
They recognized that Trump, and his team, were standing up to it.
Trump & co are not angels, but quite imperfect people with flaws and blind spots (and some quite severe blind spots!).
That is pretty much like normal people.
But they looked into the face of evil, and did not back down.
I think it is ok to savor this moment, a small useful step in the right direction.
There are still very tough days ahead.
Be strong, vigilant, and eyes wide open.
How could Trump win the election?
So many people were fed up with the corrupt Western Empire blob.
They recognized that Trump, and his team, were standing up to it.
Trump & co are not angels, but quite imperfect people with flaws and blind spots (and some quite severe blind spots!).
That is pretty much like normal people.
But they looked into the face of evil, and did not back down.
I think it is ok to savor this moment, a small useful step in the right direction.
There are still very tough days ahead.
Be strong, vigilant, and eyes wide open.
I'd still caution that Trump and his super team (plus all patriotic Americans) will need to come to Terms with multipolarity.
The truth is Americas dominance on the world stage and monopoly on global governance will continue to be challenged. The question is, will Trump (plus patriotic Americans) accept a world where there are multiple poles of power as opposed to just the one?
China and Russia aren't going anywhere!
Vance has spoken about the need to change American foreign policy to address this issue, so they're aware and looking to adapt!
The second clip is from the Vance's interview with Tim Dillon. I'm sharing that interview starting just a few minutes before the above clip because the lead up to it really drives home how Vance sees and understands the Deep State Uniparty that runs the US.
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