Is Piling Hate on Trump Really the Solution?

Ever since the people of this country slowly realized that Donald Trump was actually going to be our president, there has been a massive outpouring of hateful rhetoric aimed at the man. In actuality, most of us have never met the person and our reactions to his presence are based upon media representations that usually align with some form of bias or another, for better or worse.

I think the real issue with the way we talk about Trump has less to do with who he actually is as a person and more with our country's injudicious tradition of placing outsize expectations on a single man within a single organization to solve whatever gigantically complicated problem our fickle minds conjure and that we have no intention to solve ourselves.

It is a tradition based upon our identity as self-reliant go-getters: we expect the most powerful one among us to single-handedly solve whatever problem presents itself to our country of 330 million people. Meanwhile, the country itself has become increasingly complicated and beset by ever-larger problems, with the population of the U.S. having increased by nearly 50% (or over 100 million people) over the last 40 years.

How soon we forget that Barack Obama, and George Bush before him, were held to the same unrealistic standards and subject to the same sort of vitriol.

Problem

While we've been spewing hatred towards whichever president we didn't vote for over the past 20, 40, or more years, how many among us have actually instituted real changes that are best for the entire country?

While we've been repeating talking points broadcast by news corporations, how may of us have been building more resilient food systems, investing ourselves in enterprises that support the long-term health of the people of our country, or building political networks that will facilitate these sorts of changes?

Many of us have done nothing more than mentally masturbate with the temporary good feelings that come from verbally putting down men we will never meet and the pressing issues of our country have remained unsolved.

Our education and upbringing have done us no favors. We've not been trained to be effective individuals, rather ones that are easily influenced, manipulated, and molded by "authoritative" figures who themselves have been misguided. Rather than being able to make an actual difference, most of us have been destined to propagate the sins of our fathers, doing nothing about the problems of our society until we are compelled to impotently whimper acrimonious insults towards those we unfairly have charged with doing something for real.

Solution

Desteni is a group of people who have researched and exposed the actual state of the human being through asking why and how we have become powerless hate-spewers as opposed to responsible human beings.

Destonians have discovered that there are two main roots to the evil of our society: our minds and money.

Unfortunately, our participation within our minds supports the money system and the money system supports us to remain in our minds in powerlessness.

By learning the nature of thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and how we allow ourselves to be possessed by them within competition, jealousy, anger, and self-serving yet fleeting experiences of joy, happiness, and gratification, we can forgive ourselves for them, stop participating in them, and commit ourselves to change our participation in this world.

Similarly, by exposing the corruption and abuse within the money system, we can forgive ourselves for participating within these abusive systems, stop participating in them, and commit ourselves to build new systems such as a Living Income Guaranteed.

Reward

By stopping participating in abusive thoughts, feelings, and emotions, we can for the first time stop abusing ourselves. This, in turn, will allow us to take a moment to step back and stop participating in the abusive Money system which externalizes that self-abuse onto others.

What this will bring us is as yet still unknown: we've never reached a point where we stop reproducing the conditions of abuse which have characterized human society since the beginning of recorded history.

But, rather than inadequately yelling at our televisions while nothing changes and everything gets worse, it's not difficult to imagine the type of world we can build when we are purified of corrupt thoughts and external structures designed to suppress and deny us our full potential.

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What is Economic Nationalism?

The recent Brexit of the UK from the European Union and the election of Donald Trump in the US has given way to the rise of the term economic nationalism to describe the tendency of these countries to focus more on the economic success of domestic citizens and their businesses than, say, globalization or the overall health of the global economy. Basically, the currently elected leadership of the UK and the US have decided to prioritize their own countries above those involved in trade agreements or other international organizations.

This shift in focus appeals to nationalists and those who view globalization as a threat to their personal economic security. On the other hand, globalists believe protectionist economic measures are kneejerk reactions to the inevitable march towards global integration and a single, global society. The media, of course, portrays these two sides as fundamentally opposed and locked in a partisan battle for the future shape of the global economy. As with many things in this world, we shall see that, despite smart people and extensive propaganda supporting both sides, both the globalists and nationalists have proven quite short-sighted when it comes to the best way to reorganize economies.

In reality, a basic income guarantee would support the goals of both parties: to ensure economic stability for as many people as possible so we can truly unleash our potentials as human beings. If you believe your first priority is to your fellow countrymen, then a basic income guarantee would not only end poverty for all those with whom you share citizenship, but would amount to a huge economic stimulus with largely domestic effects. The only thing better than a basic income guarantee within a single country would be if it were extended to all the world's citizens. Actually, this would not even be against an economic nationalist's goals as the result of ensuring a decent income for all the world's people is essentially giving 7 billion people spendable income with which to buy your country's products (providing they are the best available). So, let's get together and make a move that will help all economies, global and domestic, let's support a basic income guarantee.