So imagine my surprise when I overheard Obama's victory speech while exiting the YMCA around 9:30pm. While swimming and doing yoga stretches, I contemplated the election...the ramifications of an Obama loss or win. My own life and what's going on. It almost seemed surreal as I stepped into my car and heard cheers and honks in the distance. As I got home I realized that I was a little sad that I couldn't be with any of my loved ones for such a momentous event.
I don't drop a Divine Cosmos link too often on the cup. It feels like I'm proselatizing when I do so. But I just wanted to share that my (and Steve's) guy, David Wilcock, has been adiment that Obama would win. He's also been adament about an economic recession for the last few years =)
Anyways, a few days ago he posted a little blurb on his own break down on the current political climate..yeah, he throws in dreams, crop circles, the law of one, reincarnation, and all sorts of stuff that I LOVE. But I did feel it was worth sharing his break down of what the events leading to today have to say about peoples mindset.
From Divine Cosmos:
Sexism and Equal Rights for Women: Hillary Clinton’s candidacy broke the male-dominated political world on the Democratic side, and now even the Neocons — the ultimate symbol of the patriarchy — have followed suit by bringing in Sarah Palin.
Knocking either Hillary or Palin for being a woman has become totally inappropriate. The focus has been on their experience and qualifications for public office.
Racial Intolerance: Barack Hussein Obama is half-Caucasian and half-African, with a Muslim-sounding name that reminds people of the two biggest bogeymen of the Neocons stage-managed War On Terror: Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.
It is nothing short of astonishing that so many traditionally intolerant members of our society are letting go of their prejudices and voting for the candidate who is better for the country, rather than out of instinctive, xenophobic fear of a race or a purported religion.
The scars of the Civil War still remain in the division between the "red" and "blue" states, which in the 2000 and 2004 elections was practically an identical map to how the Civil War went down with the states that were a part of the US at the time.
The South, of course, was the side that was fighting (in part) for the right to keep the slave trade alive. Now we have an election where a half-African man is actually winning the election in these very same states. This is of unspeakably vast importance in the opening of the hearts within the Heartland.
Colin Powell’s recent statements about anti-Muslim prejudice are just the beginning of a healing process that will very likely continue — and expand — if Obama takes the presidency.
Plots to assassinate Obama, and / or racially-motivated acts of hate, have had the very strong effect of exposing the ugliness and discomfort of racism, so that more and more people can choose NOT to think and act this way.
Religious Extremism: Sarah Palin’s nomination was so blatant in its attempt to pander to the extreme religious right that even the Evangelical Christians themselves are awakening to the shortcomings of "clinging to guns or religion." Surprising numbers of them are changing their minds and actually waking up to how their extremist views have been manipulated to win elections.
Similarly, the people are now seeing the similarities between all different forms of religious extremism, whether Christian or Islamic. No one wants war — we are all wishing for greater peace and stability as a society.
The more we look at the relationship between government corruption, racism, us-versus-them thinking and religion, the more we realize that these great spiritual teachers would never have wanted us to turn against one another.
Generational Prejudice: Is it right to be prejudiced against people because of their age? With McCain being 72 years old, all these issues have been stirred up as well.
It has clearly been established that we should not be biased against McCain because of his age. Those attacks are simply not appropriate. It’s not about his age — it’s about whether he has the competence and vision to lead his country.
This is a valuable step, considering how many of us forget about elderly relatives once they are moved into ‘assisted living’ as if they are no longer thinking, feeling people who need our guidance and support.
Classism and Economic Segregation: The wealthiest members of our society have been able to turn us against each other, manipulating all the above prejudices as well as the basic concepts of "Republican" versus "Democrat," but now the game has changed.
More than ever, the spotlight is being turned on the entrenched power structures. The scope of the public uprising over the 700-billion-dollar bailout is unprecedented in any modern history. The fatcats have already received the "kill shot," and are now on the run, spilling blood as they go.
We shouldn’t gloat over their defeat, but rather be grateful that the public ignorance they have taken advantage of for so long is finally eliminating — and along with it comes freedom and a much greater prosperity in the long run.
Congratulations Barack Obama.
SF Chronicle: Obama's historic victory.
LA Times: Obama wins presidency, makes history.
4 comments:
I was too paranoid to watch all of the vote count stuff on the news, so I was alerted to the fact that things were going well by copious amounts of hooting and hollering from somewhere to the west (probably when they confirmed Obama won one of the swing states) while I was fishing in warcraft. Then around 8, I hearthstoned back to shattrath, and amongst the usually asshattery, someone wrote "Obama wins, discuss" in the trade channel right around the time our hooting and hollering neighbors started screaming "Obama." I turned on the tv to check things out, but fox had one of its usual assholes babbling and cw was playing 90210, so I turned it back off after confirming that warcraft wasn't giving me false hopes. Then a bit later, the neighbors started screaming again, and I turned the news back on and Obama was doing his speech. The moral of the story appears to be that screaming neighbors are a reliable news source.
I wish I had gone to check out the crazy party downtown, but horseback riding had kicked my ass and I was freezing, so I stayed home in my blanket pile.
LMAO! COMBO BREAKER!!!!
I got a whole post worth of crap to say. But I was definitely with you Lorenzo about it all being surreal.
How was working the polls? I love asking that =)
And good luck with the midterms Crow!
I guess Cyruss experience also hints that Trade chat is a reliable news source...
And in the words of one Facebook status:
"Suck it Palin!" ~ this was a girl by the way...unfortunately I know she'll be back...in like a huge Mech...with Moose antlers everywhere...disgusting.
nice divine cosmos post. I just barely read it, as it appeared very long at the time that it was posted. very interesting way to view the current politics. I like it.
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