“𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝”

 

You’re no doubt aware of candidate Kamala Harris using the term “unburdened” in context with vote getting for her joyful vision of wonderful future possibilities.

Sounds pretty good. Of course it does. It's supposed to. At least in terms of how it sounds. 

But, let's unpack that. Shall we?

Who doesn't want to be unburdened? Everyone would vote for that. But, here's the tricky part. Just what does unburdened mean? Specifically, for Kamala? Beats me.

To my ear this platitude is just a slick way to tack her star to a generality everyone buys into. Like, everything I do is with "love". Shucks. And, hell yes!

Please tell us, Ms. Harris, just what are we gonna be unburdened from; and, what will that look like moving forward? It almost takes away any disagreement if she even ever states any specific(s). After all, her way forward will be unburdened, and we've already signed on for the unburdened part as nothing but good can come of that. Kapische? 

Kind of like that other wonderfulness, "JOY". Like, since we're joyful, we must be on the right track. Maybe. But, mostly I'm reading it as a slogan for vote getting. If she were truly joyful, I'm wondering if she would even be in politics. Politics is all about offering you reasons to be joyful. When, in fact, that's the underlying natural God-given reality, and pols are just stealing our souls with promises to give us what we already have — but mostly it seems we're unaware of that rare fact — in exchange for votes and compliance.

As for "unburdened", there is such a thing. Read Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now to understand that from a true perspective. To be truly unburdened you stand in a place of silent not-knowing; able to see what's so with a fresh view. That's the smart stance. Harris' "unburdened" is just a nice comforting word image covering up whatever she and her administration may already have in mind to do. Boils down to voting the personality. And, putting our trust in that they'll do the right thing. Which, by the way, brings up yet another subject: just what the fuck is the "right thing"? Let's leave that for another time. Seems to be a lot of differing opinions on that. But, from ones who are so full of ideas and agendas that it's highly doubtful that any of them are truly unburdened, or joyful.

Don't make me out that because I'm criticizing a Dem that I'm for Trump. "Make America Great Again" is a brilliant crafting in the same way. What do we mean by great? And, who's idea of great are we strapping ourselves onto? In fairness to The Donald, however, he does list some plans on what to do that underpin his slogan.

What do I recommend you do? You and me?

Let's get to being great! In our own right. Let's be unburdened! Within ourselves. It's your birthright after all. Do we need a politician to sell our birthright to us in exchange for a vote? To sell us on their vision of reality? Sell us on what you're going to do. How you see things. That's something to vote on.

That last bit. It would be good if the candidates did flesh out their world view. Not just keep going on about how the opponent is so bad. They're both doing that. Which means they're both rather bad for doing that; and we're to choose the one less so. 

Oy!

And, by "Oy" ... let's hear something concrete about the Middle East situation. As you know, it's dreadful there. For all concerned. They only seem to be on each side hard wired for the other's extinction. How are our condidates gonna play into that? Decry the unnecessary dying while sending guns and money and pledging undying support to continue to do so? Oy!