Well, maybe I've given you good reason to pigeon hole me. I don't really talk about what I really believe, here, on a forum. But, when I'm operating on all cylinders, this is what I believe, and , when all is said and done, I can't separate my politics from what I believe. If someone wants to find a label for this, OK.
My politics starts with understanding we are spiritual beings on a human journey. I can't prove it. I can only live as if it were the case. The old existential leap. The existence of good and evil in the heart of man complicates the issue. Any issue that requires being filtered through the heart, that's what I do. Listen to the heart and make a decision based on its imput. That's the best I can do. Do what the heart says I should do, based on my core belief, based on what it says in the final analysis. I'm just passing through, but I recognize I'm here for a reason, and that's my growth as a human being in circumstances that requires making moral choices. We are all actors, and the world is a stage. Whatever role one plays, live and die with honor.
I see that many people do not understand what I do, or believe what I do. I can't help that. That does not absolve me from making decisions based on what I believe aligns with good, with the light in the heart of man. It's my responsibility to understand that and live it to the best of my ability. Since I'm light years from perfect, I will fall short, and the record of my life will make note of that. Every day I fall short. But that's how I see this world, this realm, that's my mythology. There may be a label that fits that. If I look at the mystical tradition of any of the world's major faiths, my mythology won't misfit. But I have not practiced an organized faith since childhood.
But, the point is, I can't really separate my politics from any of the above. So any label has to encompass this. So, I wonder how Trumpism appears to my heart? What does it say? Can you guess? I don't see light. I don't see enlightenment. I see darkness. I see ignorance. I don't see good in tribalism of the national variety. I don't see good in the anti-global movement. I see that cannot end well.
But these are my latter years, and it's actually very easy for the heart to recognize good,most of the time, and that's something to be very grateful for, and it's really only a dream anyway. But you have to try to align with good while you're dreaming. That's the rule, whether you know it or not. So, lucky is the man who knows it.
