“Present me somebody with out an ego, and I’ll present you a loser.”
― Donald Trump
“Life’s most persistent and pressing query is, “What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The material of our world is falling aside.
And it’s needed.
Final evening, I took a job coming into early outcomes for elections. My project was in a small metropolis 30 miles away from me. I discovered the courthouse and the courtroom the place the election officers, legislation officers and others had gathered.
As I used to be ready, I listened and noticed.
I had the thought, as I had many occasions earlier than, that I want I had ended up in a small city the place life was easy. The 2 girls from the small city at my desk appeared content material, dressed properly and happy.
I felt a whiff of envy on me wishing my path in life had been extra clear and steady as their’s appeared.
After which the evening went on. The Regular Rockwell portray fell aside.
There was one other girl who got here a bit later: chubby, tattoos, torn denims and a hippy shirt. “Sure, I used to work for the newspaper. Obtained hooked on the elections, and now I do the reporting for nationals. I’m solely right here as a result of I must pay my water invoice.”
I hear her say to one of many authentic girls on the desk, “I do know divorce looks like the worst factor that ever occurred to you, however you’re going to get by means of it.”
Chubby hippy girl’s voice rang robust. I heard its fireplace.
Because the evening goes on, I discover out not solely are each of the ladies I assumed a part of the Norman Rockwell portray divorced and struggling financially, however their youngsters are struggling as properly.
One among them is homeschooling her son.
“Effectively, sure, I might put him again at school if they’d take him. However they won’t. And it could not work anyhow.”
The opposite has had severe incidents along with her daughter, “my daughter who’s a happy-go-lucky, smiling child impulsively was a special particular person.”
“When you find yourself wronged repeatedly,
the worst factor you are able to do is proceed taking it–combat again! ”
― Donald Trump
“Nonviolence means avoiding not solely exterior bodily violence
but additionally violence of the spirit.
You not solely refuse to shoot a person, however you refuse to hate him.”
-MLK
Voter turnout was at an all time low. There have been perhaps a dozen folks within the courtroom. A number of spoke about not believing that there have been no more folks ready on outcomes and simply how low the variety of folks voting was.
Having a look on the outcomes, it’s clear that the resounding situation they had been there for was to vote for Donald Trump.
There have been 64 absentee ballots forged. Within the Biden major, he acquired 366 votes. All in all, there have been 7388 ballots forged, and 6147 of them voted for Trump.
Why?
“I’ve a dream that my 4 little youngsters will someday dwell in a nation the place they won’t be judged by the colour of their pores and skin however by the content material of their character.”
-MLK
“, it actually doesn`t matter what (the media) write so long as you`ve acquired a younger and delightful piece of ass.”
― Donald Trump
I go away the occasion feeling depressed with the conclusion that there’s a very actual risk that Trump will win in November.
I get it. These folks suppose that Trump will soothe their very actual and large ache. The lads suppose he’ll allow them to be higher monetary suppliers so their wives won’t go away taking their youngsters. The ladies simply need a strategy to pay their water invoice.
I’ve contrasted Trump’s quotes with Martin Luther King’s. Just a few months again, I did a contract for the USDA the place I helped farmers fill out functions for the Discrimination Monetary Help Program. We did an Outreach occasion in Selma, Alabama the place I picked up MLK memorabilia on the museum. I’ve been meditating on his quotes for months.
I don’t see the world by means of Pollyanna glasses. A number of the folks I helped fill out the Discrimination software had been there to get no matter they may get in no matter means out there.
However not all.
The tales I heard of willpower and power of character, these had been those I cherished. These Black farmers confronted discrimination and hatred in an trade that’s not forgiving by its nature. I noticed how those who stored their character shone.
I bear in mind a pig farmer who went with out consuming so he might feed his pigs and preserve their weight up as a way to promote them on the finish of the yr for a couple of hundred.
He was divorced too however had lastly discovered somebody who he acquired alongside properly with. “If I want a couple of {dollars} to get me by means of, she doesn’t preserve rating.”
He had established a charity basis as a result of he realized in wanting again at his life that he acquired by means of the powerful occasions due to a couple of good individuals who put their hand out and helped him.
He was now ready to place his hand out to assist others and that was what he was doing.
After I learn these quotes from Trump and MLK, the distinction is kind of startling.
“MY STYLE of deal-making is kind of easy and simple. I intention very excessive, after which I simply preserve pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.”
― Donald Trump, Trump: The Artwork of the Deal
“I’ve the audacity to consider that peoples all over the place can have three meals a day for his or her our bodies, schooling and tradition for his or her minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for his or her spirits.”
-MLK
As I’m driving residence, I settle for that Trump will almost certainly win in November.
The good lots of persons are not prepared.
They nonetheless must be taught that cash won’t repair their issues and that life is just not a mad rush shoving and pushing everybody in your strategy to get to the highest of the dungheap.
It turns into abundantly clear to me that Trump is the epitome of patriarchy and the catalyst that may lastly destroy its egocentric cloth leaving the world in a state of vulnerability and the conclusion that we’d like one another.
We aren’t fairly there but. Grasp on. It’s going to get even bumpier.
However we’ll get there.
“We will overcome as a result of the arc of the ethical universe is lengthy, however it bends in the direction of justice.”
– MLK
Right here is to these of Us who’re following that Arc.
