As promised, I’m making a suggestion.
Get your t-caps on for getting rid of Trump, the megalomaniac who sees the world as his business, where his objective is to make money and to have the power that comes with that. He is deteriorating now, so not only is a miscreant destroying our country, but we have someone who is losing the everyday faculties that keep him tethered to at least some reality. (See An Unfamiliar America, put out yesterday by Mark McInerney, my pick for Substack’s poet laureate, whose writing is so good that I read his versions to be able to stand the news of the day.)
Our demented president easily could end our civilization, and I am motivated by the urgency to remove him, bearing mind that normal means would not be fast even if possible, and succession going to Vance would not be satisfactory.
Taking care of this country as its president never has been Trump’s interest, so how about his resigning – after he fires the cabinet he hired? Why would he do that? In his deteriorating condition he has trouble even staying awake, and shame and pain are looming bigtime for when his term is up. Sooooooooooooooooo, what we do is we give him a free pass for crimes committed and he gets the contract for Gaza to be rebuilt. What a deal! Just what he wanted. He wins! He could become the richest person in the world. And we swallow our justification to punish him, as per the sort of example we get for outside the box reasoning from how Norway rehabilitates its criminals. They become productive members of society when they get out of prison, instead of the harsh punishment we mete out that gets more than 70% of released prisoners incarcerated again for committing more crimes. For us, here, now, there’s no higher priority than to just having Trump gone. Talk to me. Why not?
For the thinking outside the box that I’m urging, I fished around online for a presentation of what’s widely used as the classic example of it. If you ever wondered where drawing four consecutive straight lines that connect dots in a nine-dot square came from, this is a full report.
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I'm loving these many perspectives and the rich conversation they are provoking. I think we can all agree that we see the need need for a revolutionary/evolutionary turnabout on so many fronts.
I take some solace in one of Sue's quotes above: "A coalition already exists in spirit. It is coming together now in the social context by the attraction of its unconventional intelligence and compassionate form of high-mindedness. This natural coalition is drawn together by the recognition that the elevation of consciousness is our fundamental life work. This is a genuinely democratic, self-organizing force, flowing through persons of all descriptions. This force does not flourish as any highly structured form. It is not an institution or a foundation or a non-profit company or anything conventionally named. This coalition is a living organism — natural, wild, free. It is made up of individuals devoted to serving the world and developing themselves as finely tuned instruments of service. They learn to gather in the energy of will-to-good, from which authentic goodwill flows out subtly to the entire world."
I take this to mean that if we each identify, develop and share our own unique gifts, and dedicate these efforts (silently or vocally) towards restoring the sanity of our species, we are doing the work that ultimately will lead to that restoration. Recognizing the slugfest aspects of that restoration seem to be an unavoidable hurdle backed up by a lot of historical evidence that we humans typically wake up over long spans of time, and as Sue points out, the risk factor of not quickly removing this mad king from his throne is its own code red circiumstance to be dealt with alongside all the other avenues needing course correction.
I fully agree with her that the possibility of meeting our own Dr. Strangelove moment is percolating just under the surface.
(Sue, have you thought of contacting the No Kings organizers about employing a theme for their next event around the idea that it's simply too dangerous to allow this man to serve out his term?)
You've been talking about the Norway prison system for a long time and it's so genius. You're ahead of your time, as you were with robots taking our jobs. You have your finger on the the pulse. Now we just needed people to listen