Naomi Wolf just wrote what may be the most honest, humble, courageous, and gentle political statement in US history - and her statement may in itself help shift the country out of the most profoundly divisive time in American history.
It was a political statement, for sure, but it was something much more and much deeper. It was Gandhian in its truth and ahimsa.
Truth and ahimsa were the two things Gandhi used in his fight to free India from the tyrannical rule by the British.
Ahimsa
ahimsa - (Sanskrit: "noninjury") in the Indian religions of Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, the ethical principle of not causing harm to other living things, can be distilled into a practice of non-violence in all aspects of life, from the physical to the mental and emotional. Non-violence is defined by honest compassion and true love.
Ahimsa is non-violence in thought, word and deed.
Gandhi brought down the British empire (the globalists) without firing a shot. He did it by uniting all religions and classes for Indians, even the most down-trodden, and guiding them using truth and love (ahimsa). He instilled in them a willingness to suffer without returning any violence, and even to die in the face of great abuse from those in power. Their AHIMSA even when confronted with the horrific brutality of the British Empire - its TRUTH - exposed the British and the empire collapsed out of public sympathy for the Indians and stunned horror at the British.
The media of the day covered the Indians' Salt March to the sea to gather free salt (essential for life but "owned" by the British), their being physically attacked by the British military, and though beaten and unarmed and some dying, the Indians kept coming, and kept being struck down, and kept coming still.
MLK, inspired by Gandhi, did a similar thing in teaching black people to hold their ground peacefully in the face of police dogs and fire-hoses, and with non-violence ennobling themselves and garnering the respect and support of the public.
When Obama got into office, he was almost immediately awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and a global stage for his Peace Prize speech. The award was given though Obama had not done anything in terms of peace [he would go on to start 7 wars]) Here is his speech in full.
It is of enormous significance that in his Peace Prize speech to the world, Obama immediately criticized both Gandhi and King.
We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth that we will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations - acting individually or in concert - will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.
I make this statement mindful of what Martin Luther King said in this same ceremony years ago - "Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones." As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King's life's work, I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there is nothing weak -nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
[Side bar: what Ahimsa (love) and Truth might have done to stop the Nazis was never tested, though the Truth might have helped since the Nazis were funded by British and US banks https://www.globalresearch.ca/
But for those who noticed, Obama's criticism was a telling moment. Why did Obama straight away attack, and on a global stage, the two greatest leaders of peaceful movements for human freedom in the world? His speech seemed almost a statement on behalf of empire and those currently running the world (including the British) that fear and violence and hatred were back and that despite Gandhi and King's non-violent examples and huge successes for humanity, Obama was announcing there would be no holds barred militarily.
It's crucial to notice that Obama's take on Gandhi and Kingwas at the level of "tactics" (non-violent protests being a means to an end) whereas Gandhi and King were driven by, and succeeded in uniting giant movements across every class and religion and race, not by using a tactic but out of their profound and deeply-held moral (or religious) beliefs.
Obama spoke as though Gandhi and King's both believing deeply in God was not central to their ability to unite people, to inspire, and to overcome immense obstacles to achieve human freedom.
MLK and We Shall Overcome
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Once Obama was in office, the moral guidance of Gandhian love and truth was dropped and what went into effect were "tactics" to undermine what had been Gandhi and King's successful peaceful protests and their uniting of people across classes and races. The Ferguson protest began like Dr. King's protests had, peacefully. But now people had been hired and inserted as violent provocateurs. Now, peaceful expression of public suffering or disagreement with government actions - was destroyed by paid violent actors. And Media coverage - which had once filmed Gandhi's Salt March and the attack on peaceful black protestors in Alabama - ceased to be an honest voice for the people and had became an orchestrated show scripted by those in power to control the minds of those watching. The public's natural compassion about abuse was prevented by Media focusing on chaos and "paid violence," which instead engendered public fear of legitimate protesters, though they were not responsible for the havoc.
"Buying violence" became the political trickery used by globalists in power - the same ones Gandhi had defeated. And MLK who had begun to shift his protests for civil rights at home into questions of economic justice and war internationally, in effect taking on the same global powers as Gandhi had, was murdered as Gandhi had been.
Non-violence was replaced by bought-violence and the essential work of Gandhi and King in bringing people together to express themselves to right wrongs safely and with love for others, was utterly subverted.
J6 comes to mind.
How does this relate to Naomi Wolf's article? She talked about J6.
It was theatre by paid agitators, including FBI, specifically designed to defeat the potentially moving non-violence of the marchers, a non-violence that connects people through compassion, and which could move the country as other marches on DC (such as MLK Jr's., or the March against the Vietnamese War) have done. Gandhi and King inspired such huge non-violent gatherings as a means for the people to speak to their country and the world
Naomi Wolf's article was Gandhian in its truth, and full of Ahimsa in its gentleness (non-violent in thought and word).
Both Gandhi and MLK spoke of love and of God. Obama's first big international speech spoke of their inadequacy in a time of terrorism, immediately negating divine-inspired truth and love for the sake of military license to do anything (and Obama went on to use drones to routinely kill huge numbers of innocent civilian people in the Middle East and elsewhere).
But this open abandonment of Gandhi's Truth (he said "God is Truth") and ahimsa (love/compassion expressed as non-violence in thought, word and deed) which had inspired and united millions of human beings, got darker.
HRC in running for office, spoke of those who didn't vote for her as "deplorables," teaching the left it was fine to viciously verbally attack those who didn't think as they did.
And verbal attacks then became screamingly and even insanely ugly against Trump. Needless to say, they were far from Ahimsa and extremely far from the truth as Naomi Wolf's article helps people see.
Racist? A man who pees on women? Misogynist? Hitler?
Naomi W0lf is bringing Truth.
Here is Judge Brown on whether Trump is racist.
The video goes on that most people don't know that Trump funded Jesse Jackson's run for president.
The promotion of such unhinged and horrifically hate-filled assaults didn't just fill the political world with the lowest level of interaction but also affected liberal universities such that not going along with scathing hatred of Trump could threaten a promotion or the job itself and that morphed in rejection of professors for not following various political agendas (all of them globalist).
Gandhi and King used their standing to unite people of different races, social caste and religions, but once HRC opened the door to calling millions of other people, "deplorables," vitriol (not-AHIMSA) became a standard of behavior as did lies (not-TRUTH) and the very opposite of Gandhi and King became normalized. All moral limits were removed on how Trump could be treated. And this spread out and severely separated and degraded the whole country (and affected people internationally as well.).
Gandhi and King brought belief in the power of non-violence. That was explicitly dismissed by Obama and along with it went love itself - as in "love your neighbor as yourself" and "love your enemy" - which undergirded non-violence, about non-violence in our thoughts, words and deeds.
A great cultural insanity took hold when HRC ran against Trump. Putting aside spying on him and all the illegal political things done to prevent him from winning or to get him out of office, but focusing only on the once-friendly connections between Americans even if they disagreed with each other politically, something intense and immensely harmful to everyone happened.
The pink hat protest comes to mind. It literally made "fashionable," even culturally de rigueur - for liberals to detest Trump. Pink Hats and Hillary's Mass Murders
The hats made it fun to hate together, to humiliate and mock someone (Trump) together .... about as far as one could get from Gandhi and King speaking of love and non-violence and God. What happened to the personal morality or character of decent liberals, suddenly happily participating in this culturally sanctioned mob of haters?
And that mob wasn't by accident. This was the Salt March turned on its head.
The Globalists had learned how to do that - to organize protests not to unite through ahimsa and truth, but to undo a country's connection through hatred and lies. Sometimes they paid violent agitators, and sometimes - as with the pink hat protest - they used social media to round up sincere liberals who didn't realize they were being used for globalist purposes. The protests divided the country, and liberals traded in normally high personal standards of relating for unprincipled, degraded personal attacks on Trump and his supporters.
What globalist (anti-Gandhi) supported it? George Soros.
Is this true anymore? George Soros, There "Ain't No Valley Low Enough" To Keep Americans Apart
Once Obama rejected Gandhi and King (who deeply believed in God), and HRC attacked her opponents and the left began attacking not just Trump but all those who thought differently, we seem to have fallen into the Globalist trap we were all warrned against - divide and conquer. How can we see what is happening or fight for what our country needs if we are fighting each other?
if someone supported - or was even thought to support Trump - they were called racist, and things have devolvied so seriously that across the country families have separated, with grandparents who've done nothing wrong to anyone, not allowed to see grandchildren.
The pink hat protest at Trump's inauguration seemed almost a celebration of the left's (at least leftist women's) conversion into a culturally acceptable, culturally-unifying community of hatred.
But lost in the pink hat protest against Trump was the most horrific reality about HRC. The Clinton Foundation was running and profiting off of mass murders of black men, women and children on HAITI.
If the video links in the article above describing this horror are broken, that censorship is how things have worked
"If we weren't dividing ourselves up into identity politics, this incredible lionizing of a woman responsible for the murders of other women and of children, and this hatred of a big loudmouth [was he? or was he trying to be heard past the incessant vicious lies?''] but still a man profoundly innocent by comparison, could never have happened."
If the beyond-imaginable hatred unleashed toward Trump was not about some horrible evil he had done, then was it because of who or what he threatened? What great thing was at stake for them?
Naomi Wolf's article is not just a humble apology to conservatives, full of truth liberals may find it hard hear from a fellow liberal. She may understand that, and that other liberals and progressives have not come forward as she has, yet. But does she realize she just provided the long-needed counter to Obama's having stripped Gandhi's Truth and Ahimsa and MLK's belief in the power of God and love from this country?
She, with gentle truth (Gandhi)'s ahimsa and truth) and with love and fine character (MLK), reinjected their loving morality back into this country.
Perhaps we need to have another big march, a new sort of march, to unite us and convert us back to being the loving people we really are? Shall we have a march to celebrate each other for surviving during such hard timse for everyone. And will we at that march, at that moment look around and really see others as people, again?. And will we recognize ourselves in them and feel what we have all been through? And will we start to talk together again, and say "fiddlesticks to division" and with those 3 words, leap over tall agendas and perilous pronouns and bullying beliefs in a single bound? And then, and then, will we hit an shocking and wonderful truth, that love is all there is? Will we start to understand we can either love other people like we love ourselves or lose happiness for ourselves, our children and us all? Will we see each other and see our country embodied in each of us, and want to help each other again, and from here on out?
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