what are we to do?

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it is no secret that I believe we are in the same
type of times as the 1930’s were in Nazi Germany…
the question becomes, as a Kantian question,
“What am I to do?”

Ask the would-be Nazi’s in America, the MAGA party, what
do you believe in? And they will reply with nonsense conspiracy theories…
‘‘deep state’’ Stolen Elections" ‘‘Jews running the world’’
''Soros starting forest fires in California with space lasers""

Stuff that doesn’t matter in any way, shape or form…
that the MAGA party is, by its own definition, racists, sexists,
discriminatory, and hates anyone who isn’t a white middle age male…
can’t be denied… they proudly admit it as part of their agenda of
MAGA… Make America Great Again… and that means returning America
to the white people… as they say, as god intended…
beliefs that the bigots on ILP can get on board with… bigots/racists
like custard and of course, Sammy/Lori…along with Humanize
and whomever I am forgetting, and forgetting them is quite easy,
as they offer nothing to ILP in any case…

even my own responses has been along the lines of "what am I to do’’
when faced with this bigotry, prejudice and hated…
I tried the only path available to me…
I posted with reason and logic and empathy…
and of course it didn’t work, because these followers of the Nazi/MAGA party
don’t believe in reason or logic or empathy… they have their faith in hatred
and violence and despair and of course in the all might power of bigotry…
that is the gods they bow down to, hatred and bigotry and prejudice

and the question becomes this… if IQ45 becomes the next president,
then he has publicly stated he will be a dictator… and
reigned down retribution onto his enemies… he has very openly talked about this…
and why would the followers of the dumbest man on planet Earth gladly follow
him into this? to, as they willing and quite often say, to make Liberals cry…
but is destroying a country really worth making ''liberals cry"
exactly how far from reality does one need to be to think that
making the country a fascist state really worth ''making liberals cry?"

one of the problems with fascism, as seen with Nazi Germany and
Italy, is that they eat their young… the tools of dictatorship is
tossing anyone who disagrees with ANY part of the ideology or party,
into jail… that is the lesson learned from the various dictatorship politics
of the 20th century, both in the left, the Soviet Union, to Mao’s China,
to the dictatorships South America and in Asia…that the state will react
with violence and jail anyone deemed not pure enough…

those who are in love with these dictatorships don’t realize that they
will go to jail too…that is the problem with purity tests, eventually
everyone but the dictator will go to jail…no one is ever pure enough…

and once again, we reach the ''what am I to do?" portion of the show…
as I am an old man, I do what I can and write about the coming dangers to
America… with this rise of the new fascism called MAGA… today we stand
in about the same place as Nazi Germany did in 1933… do we elect a
self proclaimed Nazi to be president? or do we come to our senses and
tar and feather him?

Kropotkin

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and once again, we have idiots like Sammy/Lori running
headfirst into the MAGA/NAZI agenda of dictatorship in place
of trying heal themselves from their soul weaknesses…

it is quite clear that Sammy is soul sick… but he can’t envision
any solution to fix himself, so he depends on a dictatorship to
fix what is wrong with him… this is common path of weak and sick
people… at one point, very late in life, Heidegger once said that
''only a god can save us now"… and I say that is wrong…

we can fix our souls if, if we are honest about our soul sickness…
Sammy/Lori is soul sick as is Human and UR and all the other right
wing fanatics… and their answers are of the weak and sick…
maybe only a god can save them or some ism like nationalism or
racism/bigotry, or a cult like Trumpism… maybe I can find ‘‘salvation’’
in the form of some ism or another…and make no mistake racism and sexism
and hatred of others that is so prevalent in the right wing, is an attempt
to fix their souls… hatred, violence, bigotry is not a race to the best
of what it means to be human, those isms are the race to the bottom
of what it means to be human…of animal, for animal, by animal…
these soul sick people hate others because they are unable to like themselves,
they preach violence and bigotry because they are unable to overcome their
own violence and bigotry…and the best way to hide one’s own self hatred,
is by dragging everyone down to their low level of hate and bigotry and violence…

I offer a different path, a different version of being human…
I offer up a path that takes us up, forward, not down or backwards…

we begin with the idea that man/human beings are to be overcome…
if we begin with violence and hatred and bigotry, we end with love,
peace and hope… we overcome our animal side and embrace our human side
which means we engage with our peaceful and hopeful selves…

in listening to the sick soul ones, you don’t hear about love or
peace or hope or beauty or grace… but you do hear hate and anger
and violence and despair… anyone who says the human race is doomed,
is soul sick… anyone who says we are just animals, is soul sick…
anyone says that all we can act upon is hate and bigotry and violence,
is soul sick… and thus I name Sammy as being soul sick as is Human
and UR and even Mags… and for them, there is no escape from being soul
sick because that soul sickness gives them an identity, a purpose,
a reason to live… take away Sammy’s soul sickness and what else does
he have? nothing, nothing at all…take away the other soul sickness
and what do they have? nothing… nothing at all…
they find meaning and purpose in their soul sickness… and I do feel
sorry for them… these soul sick ones…
and I cannot help them…only they can help themselves, once they
realize or understand how soul sick they really are…

as for me, what am I to do? I will continue to fight for the right
of being happy and finding love and having an engagement with
peace and hope and non-violence… I will continue to seek out
beauty and love and hope in the world… something the soul sick ones
never admit into the world, beauty or love or hope or peace…

so what are you to do? will you seek out anger or hate or violence?
or are you seeking out love or peace or hope?

make that choice and decide who you are…

human or animal… seeking going upwards or lowering
oneself into the hate and violence of the soul sick ones…

declare yourself… are you an animal or are you human? and then
become that…

Kropotkin

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I for one, unlike the ones who hate, would rather light a candle
than curse the darkness… as the soul sick ones do…

and so what are we to do? as I have suggested, I would much rather
light a candle… and so I pursue love and hope and peace…
if you want a better world, then you have to work for it, you have
to dream it and you have to get in the mud and make it happen…
making the world a better place isn’t a spectator sport…
where you can sit on the sidelines and watch others making it happen…

if not you, then who, if not now, when?

if there is nothing else we learned from the 20th century, is that
life, politics, living, seeking out peace are not spectator sports…
if you want it to happen, you have to fight for it…
what are you going to do, today, right now to make the world
a better place? most of you, will have your excuses ready… I’m
too busy or I am to poor, or I am with wife/spouse and child,
what can I do? if nothing else, stand for peace when given the chance,
argue against those who advocate for anger, hate, violence, as does
the right wings do around here…you silent ones, the ones who sit in
the back and read this website… declare yourselves… do you stand
for peace and hope and love or do you stand with hate and anger
and violence…I am calling you out… declare yourself and
stand for either peace or violence…

where do you stand?

Kropotkin

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Peter, you are correct.

You need to understand and something though.

I have the accuser in my spirit as well.

That’s how trumps gets away.

You have to defend him because he’s married and you’re married.

You couldn’t stand trial in cosmic court Peter.

Let others deal with this problem.

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An important issue is Stockholm Syndrome, or how the abused turn into abusers, by identifying with their tormentors. There are clues throughout the posts and life histories of the Nazi sympathizers on this board that this is the case. It requires infinite patience on our part. One can only imagine the horrors Christians went through, dealing with people like this. They misdiagnosed it as the work of the devil, but we have a clearer perspective, thanks to modern psychology, that these people are victims themselves, trapped in a cycle of darkness from an early age. The only hope is that they are somehow able to peel back the defensive layers that have acculmulated and reconnect with their earlier, authentic selves. In many cases this maybe impossible, but getting them to realize this must be the first step. Age is an important factor. When faced with the blank hatred and cruelty of certain posters we should never lose sight of the underlying pathology which is responsible for this condition.

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Imagine thinking that Trump is Hitler and the MAGA-tards are Nazis. Just, wow.

Until the average intelligence among the vooting public increases by at least one standard deviation there’s simply nothing to do. The false dichotomy of left vs right has locked and over-written the minds of millions of people into stupefied delusional and easily programmed-controlled madness.

If you still think left vs right means something then you’re not paying attention.