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A New Precedent for President's Day - It's Time to Face the Elephant (and Donkey) in the Living Room... Together

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5. What if we had a place where citizens could gather virtually where we could become aware of and expose the toxic forms of citizen manipulation, rendering them ineffective?

6. What if a YUGE number of us united around uniform rules for verifiable voting, unhackable machines or paper ballots, and standard procedures for recount -- so that the results of all elections are impeccable, and unquestionably honest?

7. What if we initiated national conversations across political divides (like the Living Room Conversations are already doing) to cultivate civil discourse, mutual understanding, appreciation of how conservative and progressive values complement each other, and even begin to collaborate on transpartisan legislation, including voting and campaign finance reform?

8. What if we gathered religious, secular ethical and spiritual leaders and organizations to convene a "truth and reconciliation" movement to reveal and heal the political shadow that has been haunting us and has stolen our integrity, our heart and our soul? And ... what if we likewise gathered around the things that we want for ourselves, our families, community, country and world, and set a common intention for our country?

This may sound "utopian" but as the great visionary philosopher Bucky Fuller pointed out in his book with the same name, our choice is "utopia or oblivion." In other words, unless we create heaven together ... we're stuck in hell.

And that Constitutional crisis is on its way.

I'll put it this way. The only way Donald Trump's war on reality can continue is if enough people pretend he is sane AND steps are taken to repress the contradictory, fact-based reality. Already he has come up against judges saying, "Not so fast, cowboy," and while he has issued directives left and right (mostly right), many of these will not hold, particularly as Congressfolks return home to hear from their constituents.

The danger is that the assessment of Donald Trump's integrity, discernment and sanity will become just another left-right issue, like "climate change" -- you say it's this, well I say it's that, so there.

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Steve Bhaerman is a writer, humorist and uncommontator who's been posing as cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda for the past 20 years. He is the author of seven books including Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From (more...)
 

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