Kryztian
10th November 2016, 20:39
When I woke up on the morning of November 9th, 2016 to find out that Donald Trump was the new President elect, I was, like many fellow Americans, stunned. But I was stunned not in a bad way or a good way, just surprised that the other one of the two awful candidates I didn’t like, won.
But many people were stunned in a really, really bad way. A total shock, like September 11. But the entire nation was not experiencing this shock together, as it was in 9/11, just the people who wanted Hillary to win. Some of them may have expressed disdain for both candidates, even voted for third party candidates if they weren’t swing states. But at some place in their consciousness, they decided that Hillary was superior to Trump, and would be the winner of the election. Even if they thought she was awful, when they went to bed the night before, they found out that they had awakened to a very different form of awful. November 9th, which is also the anniversary of Kristallnacht, was a rude awakening into a traumatizing event for them .
I thought of my friend Alice, a fervent Democrat and Hillary supporter, who the night before posted a picture on Facebook: it was of a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on top of red, white and blue table cloth with a Democratic Donkey logo on it, all ready to celebrate what seemed to be an inevitable victory. The following morning I thought of her disappointment and laughed a bit, and then thought, no, this is not funny. This is truly shocking. The kind of shock that can cause damage to one’s organs and to one’s psyche.
If you were fooled and shocked, as I was, by 911, they you were probably overcome by questions like “Why? Who did this?” and embarked on search for someone to blame, and, like so many, might have settled on blaming the entire Islamic world. Then you start projecting as much anger, and hatred upon your object of blame. Hillary supporters generally pride themselves on not hating any ethnic, religious, or sexual identity group, and are quite proud of that, so they need to mentally create a group to hate and invent the idea of “racist Donald Trump” supporters. They were using the mental process of objectifying the other, and then projecting negative energy upon it, then same process that can turn a minor bigot into a full brown racists. They will then decry Donald Trump as a divisive figure one moment and the divisively blame the angry White People in the rust belt for their fate the next, not seeing the contradiction. It’s a pathetic sight, but considering how many of us were driven to irrational extremes of Islamaphobia after 911, shouldn’t we be a bit sympathetic?
Most of us Avalonians thought the Powers That Be would make Hillary win, and when that didn’t happen, some of us thought this was a victory over the Powers That Be, while others wondered if a Trump victory was also playing into their hands. But that’s a topic for another thread. What I am wondering about here is, were we lied to about the polling results so that we would receive a surprise Wednesday morning, a shock that would divide us between those who would gloat in victory and those who would wail in anger? If so, then there is a very simple way to fight against this false flag and that is to be sympathetic, to not be self righteous, and to be patient with the people who have different views. To try and keep them from wallowing in their anger and patiently bring them into a place of Truth, while maybe allowing them to wallow a little more. Can we just realize that this Election year spectacular is about as phony as a WWF Wrestling match and we have to be patient with our friends who are so emotionally caught up in it, and that we have to wait for them to catch their breath, before they can also see how contrived this spectacle is too?
I still want to laugh at Alice and her bottle of Veuve Clicquot, which is probably still unopened. She’s a bit like “ Hyacinth Bucket” in “Keeping Up Apperanace”, (queue the laugh track).. But she is also a real living, breathing, loving intelligent human being too and deserves compassion and respect. She is not the enemy. The enemy is the idea that I should endlessly ridicule her and think of her as the enemy, and think of myself as superior. I am not going let that idea into my head.
But many people were stunned in a really, really bad way. A total shock, like September 11. But the entire nation was not experiencing this shock together, as it was in 9/11, just the people who wanted Hillary to win. Some of them may have expressed disdain for both candidates, even voted for third party candidates if they weren’t swing states. But at some place in their consciousness, they decided that Hillary was superior to Trump, and would be the winner of the election. Even if they thought she was awful, when they went to bed the night before, they found out that they had awakened to a very different form of awful. November 9th, which is also the anniversary of Kristallnacht, was a rude awakening into a traumatizing event for them .
I thought of my friend Alice, a fervent Democrat and Hillary supporter, who the night before posted a picture on Facebook: it was of a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on top of red, white and blue table cloth with a Democratic Donkey logo on it, all ready to celebrate what seemed to be an inevitable victory. The following morning I thought of her disappointment and laughed a bit, and then thought, no, this is not funny. This is truly shocking. The kind of shock that can cause damage to one’s organs and to one’s psyche.
If you were fooled and shocked, as I was, by 911, they you were probably overcome by questions like “Why? Who did this?” and embarked on search for someone to blame, and, like so many, might have settled on blaming the entire Islamic world. Then you start projecting as much anger, and hatred upon your object of blame. Hillary supporters generally pride themselves on not hating any ethnic, religious, or sexual identity group, and are quite proud of that, so they need to mentally create a group to hate and invent the idea of “racist Donald Trump” supporters. They were using the mental process of objectifying the other, and then projecting negative energy upon it, then same process that can turn a minor bigot into a full brown racists. They will then decry Donald Trump as a divisive figure one moment and the divisively blame the angry White People in the rust belt for their fate the next, not seeing the contradiction. It’s a pathetic sight, but considering how many of us were driven to irrational extremes of Islamaphobia after 911, shouldn’t we be a bit sympathetic?
Most of us Avalonians thought the Powers That Be would make Hillary win, and when that didn’t happen, some of us thought this was a victory over the Powers That Be, while others wondered if a Trump victory was also playing into their hands. But that’s a topic for another thread. What I am wondering about here is, were we lied to about the polling results so that we would receive a surprise Wednesday morning, a shock that would divide us between those who would gloat in victory and those who would wail in anger? If so, then there is a very simple way to fight against this false flag and that is to be sympathetic, to not be self righteous, and to be patient with the people who have different views. To try and keep them from wallowing in their anger and patiently bring them into a place of Truth, while maybe allowing them to wallow a little more. Can we just realize that this Election year spectacular is about as phony as a WWF Wrestling match and we have to be patient with our friends who are so emotionally caught up in it, and that we have to wait for them to catch their breath, before they can also see how contrived this spectacle is too?
I still want to laugh at Alice and her bottle of Veuve Clicquot, which is probably still unopened. She’s a bit like “ Hyacinth Bucket” in “Keeping Up Apperanace”, (queue the laugh track).. But she is also a real living, breathing, loving intelligent human being too and deserves compassion and respect. She is not the enemy. The enemy is the idea that I should endlessly ridicule her and think of her as the enemy, and think of myself as superior. I am not going let that idea into my head.