Thursday, April 12, 2018

BE AS WOLVES - RESIST


If you know anything about wolves, you’ll know that they are pack oriented animals. They have leaders in their pack and every member born into or accepted into the pack has a specific role to play for the pack to be successful, to thrive and to survive.

 
Like wolves we, The Resistance, must become a pack. We must select our leaders based on their ability to be calm, rational, strong, persistent, knowledgeable, com- mitted, fair, assertive and even a bit aggressive when the situation calls for it.  We must follow the rules of the wolf pack in that we mustn’t follow unstable leaders. Wolves will not follow an unstable leader; a leader who’s ‘energy’ is erratic, lacks in self-confidence, treats others unfairly or is aggressive when it’s not required and will typically choose a new/better leader of the pack and will expel or in extreme situations will kill an unstable pack leader.

Well, we wouldn’t go as far as to kill anyone but we’ve got to make sure that those we follow in The Resistance are stable leaders who will lead us with dedication, commitment, confidence and calm rationality.  As for us pack members who follow these stable leaders it behooves us to remain calm, to be rational and to accept our position in the pack so it can be healthy, we can thrive and meet our goals.  We can’t accept, like any wolf pack, unstable members who cause disharmony and who are more disruptive than helpful. 

We need to be all in or all out so we can successfully make the changes in our government, and therefore in our lives as Americans, that we seek to make. We need to be calm, rational and assertive to get what we want. Our anger is fierce and for some of us our hatred is strong but if we are to be successful we must use that anger and hatred to fuel our calm, rational and assertive words and behavior; otherwise we will fall apart. We must be organized, like a pack, to hunt down our prey, politicians who seek to use us to gain wealth and power, so we must use our anger and hatred as fuel but not as our tools.  Our tools are facts, common sense, commitment to one another and to the greater good, fairness, compassion, empathy and even love. Yes, love. If we aren’t fighting to end hatred and discrimination, the opposite of which is love and community, then we should just stop right now and accept our fate as a country.  Rather than fight over who’s ‘god’ is the true one we need to make love our god and seek to serve love at every turn in this endeavor and onward into the future for the sake of ourselves, our children, our children’s children and beyond.

The United States of America has been a beacon of hope for the world for so long but today our beacon is not as bright and is in danger of being snuffed out.  We are the guardians of that beacon, we are the hope for our nation, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for and it’s up to us to form a community of humans dedicated to not only returning to being a beacon of hope for the world but to cause our beacon to shine brighter; so brightly that it embraces and encircles the globe pushing out dictators, regimes and the hate of war, prejudice, suffering, poverty and hate everywhere.

We must hold each other up, support one another and work together as a healthy wolf pack does. We must call on all ethnicity's, all religions, all lifestyles to come join us leaving no one behind that wants to live in a country/world where everyone is equal in every way possible and everyone thrives. Let us be as wolves, let us be noble creatures dedicated to the pack and its success. Let us, The Resistance, march on together until we have overcome our prey and taken back our country from those who seek to be autocrats rather than, like in a wolf pack, stable, calm and rational leaders.

We can do this.

We will do this.