As the announcements come out about the new tax bill the
politicians are seething with wild claims on one side and trying to build hope
and optimism on the other. Neither has clear knowledge of what will happen with
a new tax code; all is hypothetical. But when one party comes up with a partisan
bill, the other party vilifies it.
This new plan has some good, beneficial rules in it. No one
knows exactly what it will do. As with any bill, it will benefit some and some
may inadvertently be disadvantaged by it. There is not any legislation that
does not have this result. Any big new laws are complicated and impossible to
predict the final outcome. The authors are doing their best to solve a problem.
Whether a bill is presented from the right or the left, the
other side begins immediate fear mongering, as if the writers are purposely
trying to hurt the population.
The truth is this new tax plan isn't a big change. Many people
won't notice much difference. It doesn't solely benefit 'rich' people, (the
fear of this is an underlying belief that all rich people are evil). No, most
of them just worked like crazy with a strong passion for what they do. Some are
very spiritual, highly ethical, not all.
On this particular bill, the democrats are continuing to
enforce the belief that corporations are selfish, greedy, unfeeling, monstrous
beasts. They are just groups of people, most well-meaning, offering a service
or product with a desire to make it successful. Our tax laws are so punitive to
corporations, with corporate tax being much higher than in other industrialized
countries, that they have moved their headquarters out of the United States.
This tax would hopefully bring them back, adding a whopping increase to the government's
bottom line.
We create our reality. When the right continued to blast
Obamacare, eventually a great number of people had bad experiences with it. The
left wasn't trying to hurt people, but offer affordable health care. Yet the
right convinced many that it was going to be too complicated, unsuccessful, too
expensive, etc. etc. Some good and some inadvertent harm did come of it, and we
can correct the parts that didn't work so well. But the right continues to
forward the belief that it is a tragic and failed piece of legislation.
The anger and hatred from each side to the other just
creates more anger and hatred; there is no benefit to anyone from it. The anger
and hatred toward the president does the same thing.
On Trump, he suffers from a mental condition of which he has
no control. We act like he can change, or shape up, or somehow wake up. It's
doubtful that will happen. He has malignant narcissism, serious version of narcissistic
personality disorder. He is ruled by impulses, driven to continuously act
according to what he thinks will enhance his persona. It can be saying one
thing one minute and the complete opposite in the next few minutes. He is
oblivious. He isn't a party line guy or conducting himself from any particular
dogma; he is just trying to enhance his self-image. He is in a constant state
of anxiety, feeling like he has to boldly convince everyone how great he is, (yet
he's really trying to convince himself.)
Anger toward him, hatred, seeing him as a villain, spreading
bitter sentiment all over social media, lampooning him constantly, doesn't help
the situation. It just causes us to become much more stressed and anxious
ourselves.
Understanding the real situation does help. The more we seek
to understand, the more we rise.
We are called to evolve and mature, raising our own consciousness
to be able to calmly and intelligently seek solutions to this situation. Only a
calm mind is able to resolve this dilemma in our country right now.
People to follow that are offering intelligent voices:
Ken Wilber, psychologist, philosopher. He has a free PDF
online called Trump
and a Post Truth World
Michael Smerconish, journalist, balanced thoughtful reporting
on SiriusXM and CNN
