"Who to vote for, or NOT to vote for?"

 

Not, "To Vote, or not to Vote?"  as the question is so often asked

 

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

-------Charles Mackey, 19th century Scottish journalist

 

I read this quote in an email from Susan Boskey ** (This lady is worth a click...great economic awareness and Truthful, too.) and the following flow of unbridled inspiration flowed/outpoured from my little ole mind to the collective to imbibe as they may...

 

The interesting thing about the insights Charles Mackey shared with those words is the fact that change en masse does start with each individual taking an action, and another action and another as others model the same actions. 

 

Without the benefit of a group consensus,

a group momentum is started and no one given participant realizes the power he injected into the larger movement.

We get the sense that it all happened somehow around me, not feeling the personal power of our seemingly insignificant act(s). 

 

This happens to be the essential wisdom our freedom is built upon.  The almost seamless weaving of our single energies of effort into a movement of change, shifting our times to meet new social demands or functions is a wonder to ponder in and of itself, is it not?

 

I get the sense that we are selling our soul's short when we don't take an action that our heart knows is right because WE THINK "we can't make a difference, so why bother?" 

 

This is a false idea we've been artfully lulled into believing is a fact of our existence when history and experiences all around us inform us otherwise. 

 

I mention this AT THIS TIME because many people are reluctant to vote during these primaries and vote for what they want in their hearts because the press has betrayed their role of unbiased reporting by lending their powers of the pen and airwaves into duping us into a "party-line" mentality that defaults us into thinking that where all the clamour is, is where all the power or winners are. 

 

This is patently false idea and it is

 

made real only by our "buying into this game of deception" and playing our orchestrated part like pawns on the board of life as we bastardize our choice and vote for "those most likely to win"

rather than vote for the candidate we like better that is "not so well known or liked" who, while being denied their voice within earshot of the public-at-large by the mass conglomerates and "powers that be,"

 

Is a candidate who TRULY represents the PEOPLE with plans for massive changes that MUST occur to return us to the functioning our country requires to be stable, prosperous (for populace, not just corporate interests). 

 

These voices have been making an impact.  Their abilities arch over the silence imposed upon them as they reach into their bags of creativity and resourcefulness, not bags of tricks as we are expecting and getting from the "favored horses."

 

They have been able to meet with people at a grassroots level and on the internet to get word out of their intention and plans, albeit it seems to be lost and "non-existent" because mainstream media is denying a fair hearing of their messages of wisdom and bravery to do what is right and "call a spade a spade."  Doesn't this behavior tell us Who they really are and demonstrate the sincerity of their platforms? 

 

We decry the current state of affairs and of how both parties keep playing out noxiously similar agendas not aligned with the People's Will, and yet, we think by voting for those popping from the same mold, we will get a different result? 

 

This reminds me of a definition of insanity.  It seems reasonable to vote for the "dark horses"  being kept out of our line of sight who are talking about the changes that will make the difference "we keep griping about not happening now." 

 

These "dark horses" are reasonable men, too, having the experience of serving the People of their districts as they said they would when elected, thereby demonstrating

track records of their walk and talk matching up (a political anomaly, I know), and yet, we act as if they are not worth the "cost of our vote!"  What are we thinking, have we gone brain dead?  As  you can see, I am puzzled and searching for answers to the self-defeating behavoirs I am observing.

 

I, for one, decided today, am not going to pitch my vote into the crapper and flush it away. I am going to use that stroke of my felt-tip to vote for a person who has a plan that cuts at the causes of our present dysfunctions as a nation. To my self I am going to remain true, and this for me, shall go a long way in knowing I am doing what I can to remain free by not abdicating to the "party line" that I feel is part and parcel of America's presently dis-eased state of affairs and economy.

 

I am going to be brave; I am voting for Ron Paul because makes sense - that is reason enough.  And, he is more, too. He is willing to make tough choices, he "walks his talk," he's been holding a long-term seat in Congress, he expresses wisdom in his awarenesses that are being coined and mocked as "radical." 

 

Yet, think about it  - radical IS WHAT WE NEED, and in this case it means implementing REAL CHANGE and returning to what is best for America and her populace AND doing these changes in metered transitions to avoid "shock backlash" (my term, not his). 

Looks like we are being Pressed by the press into a straightjacket of a flattened mentality, a form of stupidity, of denying ourselves the very thing WE WANT, pray for, hope for, are dying for in a war that has gone awry.

 

How can we get a hold on this slippery slope of our inadvertent give-away of our selves??? 

 

The KEY is in the VOTE, is it NOT??!

 

 

Let me tell you a short story:

We were gathered around the "hearth-fires" of home and good company when a discussion we  were having did a flip.

 

A friend of ours wanted, at a deeply convicted level,  to see the social changes Ron Paul was advocating and presenting, but he was going to vote for someone else because Ron "didn't have the support of the press and an overabundant charisma to counter that gross inequity of denied representation to "get enough" people to support him.

The People were not getting to know Paul's and other candidates' powerful plan of action because they were being blindsided and denied debate participation on TV by the powers that be, as IF he weren't legitimately running for office! WE, the PEOPLE, had TV stations deciding which candidates views we could see or not! 

 

I don't know about you, but I do not like having the press make my voting choices FOR ME.  I think they are way out-of-line and have crossed the line into interfering with news and acting more like propaganda machines.  I DO NOT LIKE what I am observing!

 

Doesn't this rile your right to free access to information??  Remember, this is the information YOU as a VOTER  have a right to have, and need to hear so that you can weigh the options for yourself as to who may be best suited to HEALING and LEADING your country. How arrogant and anti-American is that??

 

Now let's think about what this is revealing. The basic premise of my friend goes something like this --

 

"I like the guy. He's an honest candidate. The status quo fears the changes he is advocating.  I agree with this guy as do a lot of people I talk to.  He's got a track record that clarifies his walk and talk are congruent.  BUT, I don't trust the swell of people who are aware of him, despite all that keeps him occluded, are going to vote for him. And what about a large number of people who don't even realize he is a legitimate candidate??  I think they will waffle like me and vote for someone they don't want…you know, 'go with a winner'"  [If I knew how to load up a picture of a dog shaking off water, I put it here] 

 

Yikes!  I woke up. 

 

Disheartened and shocked, I started thinking,

"Do we throw our vote away when we vote for the person who is advocating what is right thing to do, what we want to happen? 

 

If a candidate is a WYSIWYG, I say, no way is it a waste, I'm spending it on what I WANT, not on what others want. 

 

I not going to allow other things to sway me to a "lesser of two evils" kind of thinking.  I get the folly of that now, thanks to my friend.

 

This article is riddled with phrases I have been hearing many times over as people talk about their voting.  I been hearing how they deflate their own intention into the service of "whatever else" that seems to have popular attention.

 

NOT much attention is being given to how the issue of voting is being distorted to having a new purpose - that of winning, not that of having a say (empowerment)!? 

 

Is this as sobering to you as it was to me? 

Being played, doing the opposite of what I really want to be doing, playing into the hand that bites me...yep, doesn't feel too good, yet, I'm glad the shadow has lifted and I am seeing more clearly now.

 

We've become so involved with marginalizing, hedging our bets, getting leverage, playing the odds, and playing to win in so many things that we do, that we've allowed our voting responsibility to play second fiddle to it's real purpose of casting our voice into an act of empowering choice - one that holds promise to govern us as proposed and is aligned with our desired intention for governance.

 

 Our vote is not part of a game plan; it is the power of having a say in determining how we will be governed, unless, of course, we play it as a game piece.  

 

 

Are we playing the part of an obedient maddening crowd that the media has so patiently pummeled into a state of apathy or mindlessness with so many games and "News of the Singularly Non-important"

 

that we are now volunteering to  amputate our own empowerment by making our votes either non-existent ( "I don't vote because I don't see the point."), impotent ("I'll vote for the 'lesser of two evils' -at least I get to pick my poison.") or counter-intentional (as my friend in the story above)?

 

I think it is time we searched our depths and started acting like free people before the process of voting is a pure facade that eventually births the audacity to do away with voting all together.  Choice??  What is that?!  Can we afford to take even one more step down this path?

 

I encourage all those who have yet to speak their minds at the polls to weigh how big this response-ability to cast a vote is, and to vote WHAT YOU WANT not what you are being manipulated into voting for,

 be it race, creed, tears, gender, hair color, charm, ad naseum.

 

These are not the essentiality of what makes a leader wise, honest, resilient and worthy  to forge through these challenging times and successfully resolve that which ails us; they are emotional factors being used to obfuscate our attentions diverting them from the serious changes AMERICANS need to grapple with so as to restore America's integrity, economic strength and transparency of foreign policies that no longer alienate us.

 

Consider what  YOU THINK this country TRULY NEEDS to HEAL

and VOTE for the person addressing THOSE ISSUES with COMMON SENSE and an ACTION PLAN.  Promises? Ptooey! Haven't we see enough of this to know it is manipulative rhetoric?

 

Demand the "meat" - health care that includes PREVENTION and personal choice, a return to a stable dollar (not debt notes), stop the inflationary printing presses, a Constitutionally based life, stay out of foreign affairs where we don't belong and are not wanted, or WHATEVER YOU UNDERSTAND to strengthen AMERICA. This is your obligation to remain free and as a citizen in a country intended to be governed by "We the People."

 

Give your vote to the ones who will confront these issues with honesty.  If they are the "low man on the totem pole," each person's vote demanding their integrity be heard will move them to the top of the heap and into office. 

 

THIS IS TRUE,  IF

we WILL it so, and, then, MY VOTE, YOUR VOTE is the means to this end! 

 

The only way  your vote won't count, or you don't matter, or you can't make a difference, is if you "buy into the apathy/uselessness, and DON"T VOTE, then by your own hand of inaction, you will not matter.  Are you going to "slap yourself around like that, demeaning your value and power?"

 

I AM GOING TO VOTE.  I en-courage you to act as wisely.  YOUR CHOICE.  Your go. 

 

I shall not be demeaned by anyone's refusal to take an active part in being FREE by labeling my vote, "a waste."  I know better. It is a Good Thing, and the "right thing to do" is never the wrong thing.

 

Also, and I love this idea,

 

power shall be added unto each of us for every person WHO DOES get off the couch and flips on the power of THEIR VOTE.  I can only hope that is YOU.

 

I thank each person for their act in creating a new momentum for America's recovery.

If even just one person re-evaluates how he lost his way with his voting response ability and restores his empowerment, this article will have been worth the write.

 

All to Love,

Sharon

 

PS:

** Susan Boskey pulls information out of the shadows and into the light so you can finally put 2+2 together about money, credit, financial weirdness, etc.  As I said, Worth the CLICK if you are the type who wants the real skinny of things.  If the pablum fed to the status quo is your "thing," don't bother CLICKING through to her.  I mean it, she tells the real deal about money, not what you "want to hear" rather what you need to know to be informed, and rightly so.                                       

 

 

PPS:

"I voted today!"                    

I threw a burning piece of paper into the garbage when I was about 5 years old.  You can guess my "biggest trouble", eh!?  I burned enough of the house to have the family move into a local motel till repairs were done.  There was a pool at this place but it was too cold during the months we lived there, DRATs!

I remember the pool opened within a week after our house was fixed.  We all lamented about that, too.  I think my mom more than anyone, too - having all those kids in a motel room for months was no picnic for her!

I was so afraid of my dad's response that they couldn't get me to go into the room he was in.  I made such a fuss that it gave him great pause that I feared my own dad that much.  He responded by sternly telling me that it was clear to him that  I understood how wrong my actions were by my hysteria. 

He said, "I don't think anyone can punish you as much as you are already punishing yourself."  He was right about that. I was so grateful not to get a spanking.   I knew I made a HUGE mistake.  Thank God no one was injured.

I have had to live with the family being fond of telling people "how Sharon  burnt the house down."  It was a legacy of my own childhood "undoing."

Ah, you know what "THEY" say, "You live and learn!"

All to Love,
Sharon

Describing wholisms, when most are perceiving only 1 or a few angles of all the angles there are to see, can be a difficult process, all the more so if one is closed in their mind or vested in "being right."

Is it not so that words. being linear, require many many words to describe non-linear understandings and perceptions?

I like to refer to this as "pictures within pictures" and getting from the little pics to the BIG Pic, or 100-degrees-of-angle tells the whole story. 

If we were to place an object in the middle of the room and have everyone take a seat all around this object, and had each person in turn describe what they perceived,  we would see that from some angles the view could almost seem as though others were not looking or taking in the same object!

Yet, as one would lift from their chair, they would be able to widen the angle of their perception and take in several views at once.  However, until one could rise enough to be above and all around the object, they would be dealing with gaps in their perception of the wholeness of the object.   This can present a communication obstacle depending on the awarenesses of the people sharing what they were perceiving.

Quite fascinating, really, and a good metaphor for relating what it must be like to share transcendental experiences or the very BIG picture or understanding a God-view would impart.  Vibrational impressions fit this, too.

All to Love, Sharon