WEDNESDAY THOUGHTS: SURROGATES

Another debate tonight. 

Sure. I'll be watching...and then like many of my fellow Americans, I'll want to run away...lol. 

No. We're not going anywhere. We have seen the peaceful exchange of power in our democracy forever...no matter how bizarre, disappointing or questionable it has been...and remained hopeful...and sober.

*sigh*

This election cycle is interesting to say the least. 

Not all, but certain individuals in one group that stand out even more than the candidates, and offer a new level of humor, incredulity, and lunacy, are called surrogates.

Listening to supposedly intelligent people argue on behalf of ignorance,  has stopped being funny. The stammering and blank stares used to be amusing. Now, it's just pathetic and sad. 

One's integrity cannot be for sale. 

You KNOW when someone is in over their heads, and is being controlled and manipulated. 

You can see it, in their body language, how desperately they want to embrace the truth, but there's a payoff in preaching lies. 

You want to ask: 

"Is that what you truly believe, or is your mind being governed by the effects of a past trauma or disappointment? 

Who, or what hurt you so much that it has rendered you stubborn and unable to discern truth and light from error and darkness? 

Is your stance because you are desperately trying to distance yourself from something or someone who hurt you? 

Is it because you now look in the mirror, and loathe what you see? 

Is it because someone has convinced you that what, and who you are, is somehow deficient? 

Is it a lack of love and attention that is fueling this love affair with unreasonable behavior and irrational thought? 

What is it that compels you to brand yourself a laughingstock; to expose your own judgment to ridicule, as you stand in defense of the indefensible? What is behind the praise of a fool; a liar; an opportunist; a con, that has only served to make you appear foolish? 

What possesses a person to represent evil; to defend evil as good; to speak proudly in support of stupidity, dysfunction, ignorance, and incompetence? 

What is there to gain? Is there a payoff or some anticipated reward? 

How hard can one's heart be; how ill one's mind, to see and hear all manner of hate, selfishness, greed, and disrespect for humanity and say, "I support that"? 

There is no greater way to ostracize oneself, than to become an agent of hate. 

There is a difference between being unique, and independent, and being a puppet.