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I am dismayed, discouraged, disappointed, disgusted, and things have to change. I have to also be hopeful have faith and know that things will work out and that we’re going to be OK. All I can do is believe in miracles and that perhaps this is our getting to the bottom . we will emerge as a phoenix and we will be OK. That’s my faith and with faith you don’t have any guarantee . It is surrender and trust. I believe the corporations run the world. Money runs the world. We have to get back up and keep fighting the good fight, but being willing to listen and find new answers that we’ve never discovered before . that’s the transformation we are in.

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So good!

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Suzanne, I so appreciate your words. While things fall apart, that need to fall apart, I want to be part of the what's next movement.

Yes, I would be part of that conversation. Count me in.

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A necessary swing of the pendulum back toward the middle, but likely to swing too far once again. We are entering necessary instability, birthing opportunity to forge a better order. Now is the time (always is) for vigilant, heart-centered, wise leadership and the participation of all peoples for self-, community- and global-healing.

I shared my thoughts before the election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X30l1AnVH7A

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I clicked into your thoughts before, but couldn't do you justice since time has marched on. What you focused on about what's bad getting us to what's good always is relevant, though. And that we've gone very bad will prompt very good would be logical but for how we might detonate ourselves before it all works out that way. Now, three days later, at least we are buzzing with participation, so let's hope that keeps getting stronger.

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I'm happy to Zoom. We have to move to world driven by love not greed and fear. The first step is to do more listening, especially to people who feel different. We can find common ground because we are all literally members of one family.

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I think we have listened now and get what's going on with Trumpers, but what we need to get universally wised up about is what's causal to their conclusions, and that's how the super rich are running the show. That has to be addressed if anything is to change, where the misery people are in is in direct relationships to the super rich get richer while they are going nowhere.

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Had an interesting conversation with a stranger in my neighborhood coffee shop…she commented on my Human Kindness sweatshirt and we shared a moment of commiseration regarding the outcome of the election…

Then, we simultaneously said, and “weʻve missed the conversation - the fears - of a good many (the majority, in fact) Americans. We must reach out and find a common ground to make it work for ALL of us…” We must do better, as Democrats, as a people…

One new friend, and a commitment for the next four years.

Breathe deep, friends. We have INTERNAL work to do - along with the external of keeping the democratic guardrails in place.

Thanks Suzanne❤️

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We all are victims of the economic imbalance that keeps everything from working for the masses of humanity. Only a few analyses get that right, so there's massive educating to do so we know what we need to deal with.

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Yes! As a Canadian, I see this as a great catalyst. Leadership with integrity will stand out, by sheer contrast . Now is the time to come forward and support people, in the deconstruction and teco struction of our individual and collective societies. Thank you for asking!

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It is an international disaster-- and just thinking how well humanity pulls together, as the best we can be, in disasters.

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I did not allow myself to feel hopeful so I was not surprised by his win. But I assumed, if he did win, it would be thanks to the EC, not to such a large percentage of the popular vote. This shocked me, and then I felt: Well, now I know. This is where we are right now and there is a whole lot of work to do. I have some ideas about that, and would love to participate in a Zoom.

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It was unthinkable to me. Every time the possibility crossed my mind I dismissed it. Even after all the intelligent analyses being made now, some of which I've passed back to everyone here, I still can't get my mind around anyone voting for such a disgusting human being. I hope that doesn't make me a non-credible person for the big work ahead.

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Zoom? Yes.

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Love it! If dialogue is the flag, and you are Marianne's lieutenant, I'll be a willing foot soldier. And let's have in mind that dialogue may mean putting aside preconceived solutions and being willing to listen to the needs of all of us stakeholders.

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You made me cry. Thanks for marching in step with me, however, wherever.

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Maybe it’s time to pay attention to the planet? Hands in the dirt, supporting the biotic pump that cools the planet, and making sure that all bare soil becomes green are real actions anyone can take that directly impacts climate change. Shift your focus to making LIFE happen and let the rest of them do what they do. Fighting only entrenches. Pick LIFE. We have a lot to do and very little time, do what has impact and don’t worry about the rest. Zoom? Sure.

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I have put out a lot of ideas for what we-the-people could be doing, and one of them is to substitute vegetable gardens for lawns. That's on the list of actions individuals can take. But also there's looking at what the force of our collective might bring about. Sit tight for further info on talking about that .

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Suzanne, that’s a nice start, but to impact your local area, and even the planet, we must think bigger and in wholes, not parts and pieces. The biotic pump provides a whole framework for understanding the system that creates and maintains climate. Understanding that wholeness helps focus.

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Reams more before we sleep. Have to check out the biotic pump.

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Trees in healthy soil make rain….

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I try to envision what would get us to a better place, and have blogged about that.

I think many of us have things in place already that could help us to get there. Are there people we trust and who trust us? Yes? Good! Do we help each other out, do things for each other and try to be a benefit to our communities? Other good starting places.

Something I think we need to do is get our facts straight if possible. There's so much misinformation out there. As Malcolm X once said (and if we replace 'newspapers' with 'online feeds'): "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

And I think we need to be aware of the ways in which we're being manipulated. For example, it looks like what 'woke' means to people is turning them off progressive ideas and onto right wing ideologies.

I'm willing to be on a Zoom call.

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Good to be engaging with each other, Diana. That Malcolm X quote is so good. I did cancel my subscription to the the LA. Times when they refused to endorse. Online feeds, here I come in spades.

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How ironic. I can no longer get into X, and my Facebook account was hacked years ago, so now Bluesky is my only social media outlet.

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Suzanne,

I created the conceptual Global Project Plan, designed to prove that we can generate sufficient clean energy to change the paradigm of social values and society, and further develop the Environmental Economy. I am currently detailing it.

My credentials for this are that I was involved in refinery and power generation project business, among others and was elected Entrepreneur of the Year in 1974 by the Finance Writers Club of South Africa and the following year, the company I founded was awarded the National Productivity Award by South African Productivity Institute, for devising fabrication process that dramatically reduced cost of labour and incorporated training and empowerment for the lowest paid workers.

Since then, many turbulent waters in South Africa have flown under the bridges.

This past weekend, I completed mind mapping the Renaissance 2.0 Project Plan. As you can imagine, it is an enormous job, and I struggle with time. I am working on identifying pertinent writers from Substack who write about various aspects of the economy, a political system that is in dire need of change, and, most importantly, stopping global warming because if we don't, we will reach a point of no return and then no other issues will matter.

Changing the world is not a part-time job, but that's life. However, I am working on finding ways of incorporating my marketing software systems development with Renaissance 2.0. Initiative.

Before making any meaningful changes, we must create a vision of the world we want to live in, and I hope that the writers and thinkers will contribute to this vision and help mobilise the grassroots movement of change. We have to know where we are going.

The grassroots movement is our only chance to transform society. Individually, we can do little.

The articles I am publishing under Renaissance 2.0 are preludes of insight into the Plan. They seem a little all over the place, and the reason for this is that I need to cover various aspects of the Plan that need to be addressed. The articles have a joint backbone.

I am working on the article, which I will publish on Substack in the next day or two, titled Revelations in Dreamland, which will conceptually put the articles that have been published so far conceptually together. I will send you the link when it is published.

I am also a beginner on Substack, seven weeks, and am still finding my way around.

I would love to join your Zoom, but the ten-hour difference between California and South Africa makes it challenging, but not impossible.

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How very interesting. You speak my language about the situation we are in. No Zoom yet. Am trying to collect people who haven’t signed on who I’d want there.

Responding to you, for us communicating about this, so we can go back and forth, use my email: suzanne@mightycompanions.org. Start by sending me this.

Then, do you know Geoffrey Deihl, here on Substack? Since I don't have the expertise to properly understand what you are doing and he is my go to expert, I’d sendi.him this.

I am away from my computer and making do on my iPad, which is cumbersome, so that’s all till a day or two when I’m back in full action.

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There is a lot of left leaning “victimhood” out there, and this smacks of it.

Many others see the vote as a positive chance to fight back …..

Its about..

Nation versus Global

Worker versus rent seekers

Climate alarmist versus energy independence and prosperity

Elites versus the little guy

Family versus queer theory

Meritocracy versus woke entitlement

Small town citizens versus sanctuary cities.

Education for productivity versus indoctrination for social compliance

etc.

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What is the "this" that smacks of "victimhood"? "...the question is whether we will collapse or we will progress. What’s primary for humanity to improve is to decide to try."

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I have always been an optimist…die-hard or whatever. I’ve experienced miracles of all kinds in my life, and I’m at a loss for meanful words at the moment…but I cannot give up on the dream we all feel in our hearts, minds and souls.

I’ll share as best I can. Mostly I’ll shut up and listen and feel for what’s right. Steinbeck wrote, “Sooner or later, the tyrants always fall.” With courage and determination, we can make it sooner.

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Soon enough not to go off the cliff first, please god.

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It’s best not to ever give up, I’ve heard it said. Give in as much as need be to remain functional, but to never give up. Others may go off the cliff, but may of us can steer clear by staying together. And strong.

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As I harp on, the good guys all are gadflies and organizing ourselves would be key -- like Marianne Williamson signing up millions for the Beloved Community to be a force for the good.

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I’d sign up for that.

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Trump can hasten the collapse of the US empire. Which is inevitable anyways. It's going to be a fucking nightmare but for the world to finally be free it must happen.

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Scary times ahead. Just how scary is the question. A free humanity could be a Stone Age humanity.

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