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Originally Posted by Cin
One thing I can thank Donald Trump for is showing us all what the heart of the US really looks like.
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Disheartened and sickened. I really, really want to believe that this is not what most Americans are like. I really want to believe that most Americans are not sheeple, who will go along with T***p's Hitleresque propaganda. I really want to believe that America is a great experiment where with hard work, though not perfect and not played out yet, and though unfortunately with a lot of blood and grief, people are learning to live together happily and productively in one multicultural society.
I could adopt a more cynical viewpoint, and I do at times. But it makes me feel hopeless and sad about the world. I can't go through life in despair. So I'll keep taking my antidepressants, striving to live with compassion, looking at all sides of the situation as much as possible. I need the inspiration of people like Martin Luther King, Jr., the Buddha, Gandhi, and Jesus of Nazareth in my life. Because I simply
can not live like this, with the crappiness of what we have been through for the past day (or the past 500 years of America).
I'm reminded of these lyrics from a song by Nancy Griffith. I suppose you might take them with a grain of salt.
"I was a child in the sixties
when dreams could be had through TV
With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther
And I believed, I believed, oh I believed.
". . . It's a hard life wherever you go
And if we poison our children with hatred
Then, a hard life is all that they'll know."
