Listening to a morbidly obese, petulant, racist — a convicted felon and sexual predator who is as incapable of empathy, intellectual curiosity and rational thought as he is preventing himself from shitting his foul diaper — ranting at the global community, gathered at the United Nations assembly yesterday was sickening.
Donald J. Trump — the most unfit, unscrupulous and dangerous domestic terrorist to ever hold the office of President of the United States — demonstrated for the entire world why it is that the White Christian Nationalists (Neo-Nazi) faction and the GOP more broadly seems to hate so many of us.
To unpack this, I want to first share something Carl Jung wrote, many years ago:
The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived lives. They become bitter, critical or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities.
The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself.
And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down, they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.
You see, bound-up in their pathological worship of the Demiurge and enslaved by their ignorant, superstitious and sophomoric literal interpretation of one of the most dangerous books ever written (the codex known as the Bible), these right-wing extremists don’t actually hate us: Queer people, Black and Brown people, women, environmentalists, peacemakers, social justice advocates and artists. They hate themselves for their failing to live more authentic lives.
Because they don’t understand the concept of Essential Unity, they live their entire existences focused on the “other”. But the “other” doesn’t exist. Their beloved Orange Leader exemplifies how a life of wasted opportunities, lies, betrayals and inauthenticity leaves little more than petty grievances about a past that never existed; and they follow suit.
Many of them are afraid that if they don’t stay in line… if they don’t conform… the dark secrets about their own pasts will become exposed by their puppet masters. And that pisses them off.
So like the petulant and emotionally immature people they are, they lash out and misdirect the expression of their self-loathing, vilifying us.
The truth is that we scare them and remind them of what sad, pathetic and loathsome failures they have become.
Their fundamentalism and superstition frustrates them, because the imaginary external deities that they were taught to serve seem to have abandoned them. They don’t realise the only place to encounter that divine spark has always been within themselves and within others. And it makes them angry to see progressives living happy, fulfilled and purpose-driven lives, without self-deprecation, deceit and intolerance.
Our assertion that “violence is not the answer” highlights that violence is an ineffective and destructive approach to resolving problems, as it often leads to more violence, deepens wounds, and creates lasting scars.
Instead of violence, we advocate for peaceful and nonviolent methods such as dialogue, understanding, and compassion to build stronger, safer communities and break cycles of hate.
But that doesn’t mean we cannot fight back. It doesn’t mean that we can’t crush the oppressors and dismantle the patriarchy. It doesn’t mean we cannot or should not bring Trump to justice — at any cost, and by any means necessary.
It simply means that we recognise the interdependent and impermanent nature of all phenomena, and choose to act in ways that align with our core values… Not because some poorly written, mostly plagiarized codex of “scripture” tell us to… but because that is what is right and just.
Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth points out that nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns.
And because we know, as they do, that the life they mock is the one they’ve failed to live themselves. They’ve consumed the poison, hoping it would be us who die from it.
They are wrong.