I will keep this short and simple. If you are a good Universalist, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or Native American, there is really only one way you can vote. If you are an atheist who honors humanity, there is really only one way you can vote. Normally, we do not like to mix religion and politics, but this is no longer about politics or political parties. This is about who we are as a people and as a nation.
Each of our greatest spiritual teachers always encouraged and taught about unity, connection, peace, compassion, tolerance, and love. Jesus. Moses. Muhammad. Buddha. Krishna. White Buffalo Calf Woman. And so many more. If you believe in and follow the teachings of these great teachers, there is only one way you can vote. Your vote must be from heart, love, and soul.
I am not pressuring you to become a Democrat or abandon your Independent or conservative Republican principles. However, this election has moved far beyond ideology and party loyalty. By voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, as well as a Democratic House and Senate, you are voting for people who want to and know how to govern. You are voting for people who live much closer to the spiritual principles our great teachers taught: respect for each other, compassion and mercy, love and joy, unity and inclusivity, and loving our neighbor and the stranger. You are voting for people who believe in equality and that we are all God’s children, whatever our sex, race, ethnicity, nationality, or color. You are voting for people who want to strengthen democracy and freedom for all. They are hardly perfect, but their message and hopes for “a more perfect union” are. By voting for these people and what they stand for, you are voting your heart. You are being a good American and patriot.
I really don’t want to get into the other side, the MAGA side, so for a more detailed examination, check out my previous blog, “Earth 1 and Earth 2—Fact Checks,” at www.AFreshCupSeries.com. Nevertheless, I will briefly mention why we must vote for Trump’s opponent.
Several hundred former Trump senior advisors, top generals, cabinet members, and staff (including his VP Mike Pence) have joined the hundreds of Bush, McCain, Romney, and Reagan staff and senior Republicans (like Liz Cheney and her dad, former VP Dick Cheney) in proclaiming Donald Trump to be a great danger to the country, unfit for office, and a wannabe dictator. Most have said they will vote for Kamala Harris. If the people who knew him best feel this way, shouldn’t we be listening?
Trump’s own words in the past few weeks have turned increasingly anti-immigrant, racist, autocratic, and vengeful. He promises to deport millions of people and prosecute and jail all his opponents (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, General Milley, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, news anchors, newspapers, and so on). He has stated that Latino and Haitian people have “bad genes,” which predispose them to rape or murder white people.
He proclaims to be a protector of women while proudly removing the fifty years of the reproductive freedom protections of Roe v Wade, and with the fact that 22 women have come forward claiming he raped, groped, or sexually harassed them. His ex-wife claimed he raped her. This year, a jury of his peers unanimously found him guilty of raping the writer E. Jean Carroll and defaming her, awarding her $83 million. Some protector!
So, the choice should be clear between the old man with cognitive decline; a traitor who violated his presidential oath of office and tried to overthrow our government; the master of fear, division, corruption, and chaos; the business fraudster, tax evader, cheating husband, chronic liar, rapist, and racist; and the woman who spent her entire adult life in public service serving the people as a prosecutor, attorney general, senator, and Vice-President. She is well-prepared for the job and leads with sound heart and mind.
Please vote. Please vote from your heart. Please help us restore the America that has been the role model for the world for 250 years for democracy and freedom.
Blessings,
Tom
Rev. Dr. Tom Norris
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