What The 2012 US Election Taught Me

This should have been posted months ago but here it is anyway.

If this election taught me anything, it taught me to speak up and not be afraid to voice my opinion. To be true to what I BELIEVE in and not to waiver, even in the face of adversaries that maybe your own family. It also reminds me that having HOPE is powerful. Believing that everything works out as it should, according to spirits’ plan….this is POWERFUL.

If Romney had won I would have had to let it go and then HOPE some more that spirit would eventually give us what we had been looking for… a peoples leader….just as I’ve hoped for for my entire life.

I have always had hope that things will continue to get better. I am not the type to let conspiracy and fear-based ideas run my life. I believe in the power of looking at the bright side.  This kind of thinking has done me well and I would recommend it to anyone else because you DO NOT KNOW what is going to happen in the FUTURE. Why waste energy worrying about it when you could just BELIEVE in the POSSIBILITY that in the future everything will be better? It is not a pollyanna point of view.  It’s a survivalist way of thinking.

I feel like I have been under a political regime for nearly all of my life. Too many presidents have gone by since my childhood that was intolerant, money-hungry, war mongers…..literally. I used to get so frustrated at those presidents because it didn't seem like they understood us or even cared that all we want is to have our basic human rights.   We want the right to affordable healthcare….not to abuse the system and take it for free….but to be able to AFFORD IT!  We want the right to choose what you do with your own body and who we can marry and we want the right to speak our minds. All of which it seemed they wanted to deny us.  Why would anyone think that was okay to take away from us?

A time where big oil owns the USA, religion is practically legal in schools, the news is all fear-based and a group of older rich white men run the world… is finally becoming a thing of the past. 

Before, Democrats, including myself, seemed scared to speak out, for fear of harassment for our views or punishment from the government for protesting.

This is America! We are home of the FREE TO BE YOU AND ME!

I have prayed my whole life for a peoples’ leader. Someone that was more like me. And now that we have ONE, it feels like a huge weight has been lifted off of this country. And he is just one of many peoples leaders to come. 

And WE, the ones who stayed silent for too long, still always kept the hope alive that one day this would be a whole new world. So, just IMAGINE where we COULD BE in ten years and know that the POWER of that POSSIBILITY is what got us here today.

I believe that humanity has been experiencing a shift in consciousness and that now that we have learned many of the lessons needed to be ready for it, we are finally beginning to see truly progressive thinking become progressive action.  I could already feel this shift happening in my own everyday life but now I see it happening to our country and it is truly enlightening.

But in the meantime, while the change continues to occur, we should have patience… and above all we must NEVER FORGET, what it took to get here. It took the courage to speak up and speak out…..for decades.

And if there was only one thing you could judge Obama on (the thing that makes me love and believe in him) it is that it is clear in his actions that he CARES about us. He wants to see the BEST for all of us, the people not the corporations.  He is genuine and transparent, unafraid to speak out against lies and those that would try to shut him down. Of course, he is no saint, just like none of us are, but the man deserves some credit. These are noble characteristics that are rarely seen in a political leader.

And now is the era we have all been HOPING for, when the meak shall inherit the earth. And I know, that it is only a matter of time before we are completely through this shift and all of our hearts are fully open and awake.

 Intolerance will no longer be tolerated.