Author: Jorge D. H. Prosperi

“How do I love thee . . . let me count the ways . . . ”
Lettered with pen in hand by Elizabeth Browning

“How do I hate thee . . . let us count the ways . . . ”
Needless horror with gun in hand . . .

565 Mass Shootings as of October
26, 2023 and counting . . .

Gen Zers unapologetically answering the call

Would you ask your children to believe in lies? Or worse, would you teach your children to lie as a way of life? Or, to lie but don’t get caught lying.

How about as a citizen of a Democracy?

Why would you vote for a candidate and party that exists as pathological liars asking their constituencies to believe and promote falsehoods?

Have parents and teachers become the Fourth Estate teaching children not to lie but pursue the truth?

Does credibility, trust and the truth matter in any relationship?

How about between a candidate, political party and citizens?

Psychological Projection is a defense mechanism when an individual attributes their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, behavior or motives to another person.
In doing so, they defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses, characteristics, attitudes or qualities denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others.

Remember those bullies during our early school days causing needless pain projecting their own damaged selves.

Unfortunately, some school bullies become adults – even graduate from elite boarding, independent and Ivy League schools.

Some even become president, senators and members of Congress.
The titles, spaces and times shift, but the psychosis continues.

With each birth, HOPE is inherent within the human spirit.

But hope must be nurtured and mentored in the real world and with the truth. We are the teachers – the mentors – the nurturers.

Hope – it gives life during the darkest of times.

No child is born hating and loathing other children in a hospital’s nursery room.

The vileness and extremism of hate and nihilism is taught.

So is the essence of love and hope.

It happens often!
We see and hear an individual that provides us with an image of someone else.
The comparison reveals itself in living color, high definition and surround sound of the 21st Century.
We just can’t help ourselves by making the comparison.
The juxtaposition is inevitable . . . not by way of our own reality . . . but history reminding and warning us.

Each vote from here on will determine whether we live in an autocratic schizophrenic fantasy world with notions of narcissism, supremacy, denialism, grievances and extremism or . . .

Live in a Democracy with a focus and advocacy to enhance the quality of life of current and future generations.

A would-be autocrat requires absolute blind faith and loyalty.
This is the antithesis of what citizens expect from a Democracy and its leaders.
So why does a segment of America, said to be debatably 18%, believe in the insidious anti-democratic ideology known as Trumpism?
Is it a matter of absolute blind-faith or a matter of an inherited identity based on the legacy of learned predispositions and delusions of superiority, supremacy and extremism?