“When you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice”
The late great motivational speaker and author Dr. Wayne Dyer said that. I reflect on Wayne’s statement often these days, particularly in regards to the MAGA members of our Congress.
I know that we are living in some crazy and insane times. It’s obvious. It appears to me that part of this equation is that whatever darkness, hatred and vitriol has been lying perhaps somewhat dormant and somewhat invisible in a large number of these MAGA politicians is bubbling up, big time. The stress is building. They are being “squeezed” by the pressure. Their beloved Emperor is widely being revealed to be wearing no clothes (sorry. I apologize for the visual). Everyone in America can see it.
To illustrate this point of view that I present to you, allow me to offer up this quote found on Twitter from Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana.
Once again I apologize for exposing you the disgusting slime here, but when it comes to cleaning up a horrid mess, we have to be able to see the mess in front of us for what it actually is.
The disgusting Mr. Higgins offers us this:
Mind you, he is referring to hard working Haitians who are in our country totally legally. But wait, there’s more!
This was posted from an official government account.
Reprehensible words and thoughts from this reprehensible “creator of the ‘ghost buses’” low IQ, low EQ, racist bigot representative, supposedly elected into office by his constituents to represent them. Can you say “voter suppression”?
This is the same man who during the MAGA-orchestrated grilling of FBI director Christopher Wray about the events of January 6th, made this ridiculous claim, “These ‘ghost buses’ are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed onto our Capitol on Jan. 6," he said.
Honestly, in the most desperate attempts to deny the actual truth, these traitors to our country can be wildly imaginative.
I would like to offer some perspective that we can apply to our lives personally. If you had hired a person to represent you in some way, you would naturally desire that person to be able to reflect and convey your opinions and actual views of some subject matter truthfully and accurately, isn’t that true?
Consider if that person went out there into the world to be your spokesperson on some important topic. Rather than convey your actual point of view, you observe them going out onto the stage and declaring that the views you hold are actually absolutely heinous and despicable ones that you do not hold at ALL. Not even a little! You hear things spoken and see written by this person supposed to be representing you, that you find absolutely appalling. Not only that, but views that stand for the polar opposite of where you are.
THIS is what we are up against, my fellow American brothers and sisters. Racism, ignorance and bigotry have been bubbling up to the surface more and more blatantly for us all to see much, much more. It has been more glaringly obvious since Trump arrived on the political scene 9 years ago. Have we seen it all before? Yes. In previous decades, however, it was not quite as visible. Social media and the internet, and “MAGA-feeling-the-squeeze” has brought it up to level that it cannot be denied. And there is more to see where that came from. Just listen to them. They are getting louder.
I think often about how the rest of the world, historically and largely having had a favorable view of these United States of America is seeing us this these days. As America is being “squeezed” by the pressures of a system gone corrupt and now infested with a vicious, cancerous imbalance; with a mental disease rife with evil, devoid of any semblance of humanism, what will we-the-people do with all of this? The world is waiting.
MAGA is flailing. MAGA is failing. MAGA is freaking out and fighting with the weapon most readily available to them; rotten hatred boiling over. They use their words to cowardly get it out of their systems. Furthermore, their leader is losing his you-know-what.
We shudder to think of how far they could go. But we don’t have to wonder too much since they have told us their plans. They can be read in an over 900-page document known as Project 2025. Yes, they decided to leave us no doubt about who they are. They put it into a book.
Project 2025 has been part of their own personal constitutions for many years now. Read it. At least the bullet points. It reads like something scarier than the scariest Stephen King novel. As a side note here, I even recall that Mr. King had posted on social media in the past that even he didn’t feel capable of creating a character as frightening as Donald Trump.
Now, THAT is terrifying.
Donald Trump and his minions are losing, big time. They do not represent us. As you travel around America you can see that we are a melting pot of beautiful humans who only want the best for this country. Are we from “everywhere?” Absolutely. THAT is what this country IS. We are a nation of immigrants.
Do we have the potential to really learn from one another how much we actually are all the same and that we all want to live happy, joyful peaceful lives? Yes. Do we have the potential to love one another? Of course.
“When you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice.”
What do we get when WE are feeling the pressure? How about unity? How about we satiate that desire to come together as loving and cooperative communities. Is this what we can get when we are squeezed?
I believe it. I fervently believe and hold to it. THAT is who we truly ARE.
I look forward to seeing you all tonight at our Grassroots Of Democracy Thursday night discussion group. We are a little more than one month away from election day. We need to win our democracy back in OCTOBER, not November. Please come to the meeting ! We need to talk!
Email grassrootsofdemocracy@gmail.com to express your interest and to receive the Zoom information.