Sustainability and Politics: November 9 Reactions on Facebook

Thursday, November 10, 2016

November 9 Reactions on Facebook

Still feel kicked in the nuts. Feel sick, blind-sided. How did virtually every poll mislead us / get this so wrong. It's super surreal.

MT The silent majority is real. I always had a suspicion this could happen. We are very much in a righteous bubble. That's why we're surprised.

CA Nate Silver's 70-75% chance Hillary would win kept a real Trump possibility in mind. 25% was way too much chance. But the quiet red storm, Brexit-like and not reflected in polls, definitely pushed it over. Plus, we didn't want to fully believe the 25% chance. Yes, that was our bubble.

DA This was the year Democrats viewed progressives as their enemy and treated us as such.

TV I fricken hate the Dems !! We gave them the winning candidate and they rubbed it in our faces. Everybody associated with Hillary and her campaign needs to be toxic to the Democratic Party if it is to continue. If not, then we continue to burn it down !!!!! People, not profits !!!

Michael Bruins Executive Director of the Sierra Club remarks here

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.