It is still hard to fathom how so many people in our country have so embraced their right to be openly hateful to those who are defined as different or unwelcome by our president.
This is nothing new, but a recent event has made it so clear that those who support our president of hate will immediately hate whoever he targets and send hate to them as well.
Case in point, our president recently attacked Greta Thunberg. Many people may or may not have had any specific love/hate for this young girl prior to this presidential attack, but I just saw a facebook ad that attacks this young woman by implying her endorsement as Person of the Year by Time Magazine directly implicates her as condoning the destruction of trees for the magazine to be published.
Getting past the fact that our president would have loved to have received this award himself, this attack against Greta to indicate she does not really care about the environment is an attempt to provide justification to be openly hateful against her, just because our president did this first. This ad so clearly demonstrates what the leader of the greatest nation in the world fosters in those that follow him … the justification, spreading and embracing of hate and division.
In contrast, let’s take a look at those who openly love this girl. Due to copyright reasons, I can’t include this image here, but simply click here to view this image in a new window. This picture includes other world leaders and the Pope. Unlike our president, these individuals are not fearful of the world and do not embrace or spread hate, instead, these individuals embrace and spread their love of the people of the world.
Our president attacked this girl and now his followers are attacking her as well. If you are a follower of our president and endorse the attacking of this 16 year old girl, have you really thought about why you believe you have the right to be openly hateful against her? Is this really who you are or are you blindly following this president without really thinking things through on your own?
For those who are blindly following our president, I simply suggest you take a moment and think about this by yourself. Sit quietly for a moment and set aside everything ever handed to you by our president and see if this is truly at the heart of who you are. Would you openly express your hateful feelings against Greta if our president had not planted the seed in the first place?
Ask yourself why you hate our immigrants (see this article). Ask yourself why you hate Greta. Ask yourself why it’s now normal to call people names because you don’t like them. Ask yourself if it is fine that our president be a bully, or doesn’t the First Ladies ‘Be Best’ initiative apply to him?
By promoting values such as healthy living, encouragement, kindness, and respect, parents, teachers, and other adults can help prepare children for their futures. With those values as a solid foundation, children will be able to better deal with the evils of the opioid crisis and avoid negative social media interaction.
The first pillar of the Be Best initiative
Ask yourself why you blindly accept the twisted truths and outright lies our president distributes on a daily basis. There are fact checkers that are neither Democrat nor Republican that you can use to see what is based upon the truth vs a lie. Are you open to see things from a clearer perception or is your presidentially given right to be openly hateful more important to you?
The core of hate is fear. The only reason anyone hates anyone or anything is because of an inner fear a person is not willing to look at and resolve. It appears easier to deflect this fear onto others as hate because this distracts a person from the need to look within to find the core issue for this or any problem.
It is not my place to say that those who hate should stop being hateful, but I would like to offer this … hate has never lead to anything that is truly helpful. Hate only breeds more hate, division and war. Alternatively, love always leads to something that is helpful. Love breeds more love, understanding, union , acceptance and true healing of a persons spirit and soul.
All I am saying … is give love a chance. It’s all you need. You can make a choice to extend joy to the world this Christmas season, and throughout the whole year … or not. It all depends upon who you truly feel you are, or who you would like to be.
Namaste
