How do you melt separate, hardened, deeply intrenched ideals of how to manifest liberty, freedom, the pursuit of happiness and equality in a vacuum of consensus? It begins by acknowledging our common reality as opposed to the many factions that make us uniquely different.
Melting hardened hearts, wills, words and actions begins when we allow the wheels of progress to move. Now is the time to ignite the fires of the melting pot by finding common ground for the good of all people. We may have varying points of view, but to move forward as a civilized country, it is necessary to search for the solutions that can unite us. We are more alike than the differences we profess.
Once the kindling of the fires beneath the melting pot bring warmth to all the noble ideals within the cauldron, before the simmering of ideas takes place once it feels safe to do so, it is good to take an honest assessment of how best to melt all the ingredients you want to include.
Let us focus on:
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/joe-biden/
We can decide not to change, stay stuck, and thereby regress, transforming the USA from the most democratic country in the world until we are reduced to a third world despot-led country. That is possible.
Democracy is not static. It breathes or it suffocates, like the flame of the torch of liberty. We rise from oppression by warming the hearts of all, and letting go of regressive focus, especially when we see the failues of cemented negative mindsets.
Now is the time to work together, finding new paths, while simultaneously deciding to stop negative comments.
We need to stop stirring the poisoned pot of dysfunction which has been the base in the last four years. Dump it out. Cleanse the heart, mind and will, and begin again.
“Four years ago on Watch Night (New Year’s Eve), my friend and mentor Valarie Kaur, young Sikh activist and attorney, launched the Revolutionary Love Project with these words: ‘What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness of the womb? What if our America is not dead but a country that is waiting to be born? What if the story of America is one long labor?’ Now Valarie and all who have labored with her can take joy from the fact that her words did not fall on deaf ears.” ~ taken from a post from Underfundamentalist – by Parker J. Palmer
God Bless