We cannot defeat an enemy without fully learning his identity. The disappointment, sadness, fear, or hate some people may be currently experiencing are not enemies. Righteous anger may be the best tool we can have at our disposal to overcome those other feelings if we exert anger mindfully.
Our real enemy, I believe, has been our inability to accept our present-day existential reality —whether all of us can survive as a free nation— and, as a result of that knowledge, to fully trust ourselves in order to effect real, extraordinary change.
Mindful anger is one important way our bodies are directed to react when we feel threatened or endangered, both literally and hypothetically. However, trying to rid ourselves of anger is a losing game in our present times. Using anger to effect a change in ours and our nation’s future is the best way to funnel this energy.
When we pull back the covering of anger, we will be able to see our many other feelings just lying beneath it, such as guilt, shame, hurt, loss, longing, hunger, helplessness, anxiety, unworthiness, emptiness, fear, and sickness.
Are we angry because we're afraid? Or maybe because we feel devastated? Perhaps we feel angry because have been dishonored, or have become ashamed of what our country has gone through over the past few years.
If we are angry because we are worried about the well-being of others who are also being oppressed, or because of our concern for our own rights, It seems to me that there is only one best way to express our anger in a healthy manner.
That is, the only answer is to exercise our rights by creating an electoral landslide that sends a clear and strong message...
VOTE THEM ALL OUT IN NOVEMBER
