You know what the truth is? It doesn't matter
where I want to see it. We are all in
this damn thing together this blessed
thing together and maybe that's a big
shift that we could practice cultivating
it's not about where I want to see it
it's about where we want to see it
ultimately 'we' which means the person I
disagree with the most and wish wasn't
my neighbor and I hate talking to and
they like vibe me when I take out the trash that's
'we' too so it's not about what I want
versus what they want it's about like
okay how can we figure out what we want
because that's the premise of our
society right and somehow it's gotten
all skewed into this like 51% to 49%
and that's that's not the vibe that's
not the vibe that I want to live in
I think the U.S. right now is suffering
because we put all our money in
imperialism, we put all our money in
subjugating other people, we put all our
money in military and we don't put our
money in science we don't put our money
in advancing culture we don't put our
money in education and our students are
falling behind on the world stage our
quality of life is falling behind on a
world stage. This country has always been
run by a sort of judeo-christian
imperialistic idea of what the world
should be according to rich white men
and they will see the same symptoms that
I just pointed out to you but they'll
blame it on people of color they'll blame it
on the welfare system they'll blame it on Democrats.
I mean I would ideally love to
live in a world where there was you know
where I didn't have to wake up and read
these things about innocent people being
killed and shootings happening at
shopping malls and just terrible
tragedies that happen
what feels like on a daily basis. I feel
like I do think that like I said big
change usually comes after tragedy or
after you know - it's like the calm at
the end of the storm and I would just
really hope and I'm not a religious
person but pray, that these things that
we continue to move forward and that as
an American people we start to look at
each other and not see color and not see
gender and just start to respect
each other that's really what it boils down to
it's just respect - you don't have to
support what somebody
else does you don't but that doesn't
mean that you have to shoot them for it
or beat them up for it or do any of
these insane things that people do
Where I would like to see it go is that
you know we we find somebody that like
we were talking about represents us
better as a community and as people you
know and brings brings us closer to each
other so that we can become a better
country together not just a few groups
here and there you know when
we're traveling especially in the
middle of the country like you know you
go downstairs for breakfast in the hotel
and it's like nothing but older
white folks and they're all watching
CNN or Fox News
and it's like and it's crazy because
you're just like man this is where the
majority of the country's getting their
information from and it's just like so
skewed towards one direction you know
and like you said it
we were talking about earlier about
exploiting people's fears and stuff like
that and that's what a lot of that stuff
does so it's scary to see where we
can potentially go as a country right
now I'm just because it's like it's
legitimate to be racist again it's like
legitimate to just be violent again so
it's cool to just be people up for no
reason and then call them all these
crazy slurs and stuff and so where we would
like the country to goe is like you know
what Alex was saying is like hopefully
we can find someone that that represents
what the people are really about and what the
people really want
When the election is behind us and a new
administration is in place on January
20th the reasons we voted for one
candidate or another are still relevant.
Now we can come together as a nation and
people can still make a difference in
local elections and they can campaign
for officials in their states to affect
the changes they want to see in the
future so don't stop now