Thank you Open for sharing this perspective. The call to stand for your own personal freedom and sovereignty is certainly something I feel strongly and especially after what we witnessed during Covid. I am having some fear and apprehension and so sharing here.

I find the polarization, anger, and hatred that is felt no matter what political side people stand with disheartening - the absolutism and idea that one side has the truth while the other is surely leading to the country's demise. It all feels like BS to stir up the emotionally reactive little selves and I have tended to see it as one big puppetshow in which it doesn't really matter who gets elected. (This is likely ignorant of me or perhaps where I collapse into the sense that there is no integrity in any of that level of the game).

I realize of course that this is not at all about what is apparent on the surface...and that it is about the energy and movement of the shift and how the energy can flow most freely and productively toward alignment.

The underbelly that has been exposed through Trump's unfiltered commentary (not at all commenting here on the rightness of that) seems to have empowered what feels like a scary energy to me. I do get that the exposure of what has always been under the surface is beneficial and invites ownership of how it is alive within me or how it causes me to be in reaction to it. There is what I will call an angry, self-important, and what I experience as hateful and discriminating energy from some supporters...it's loud and feels like it will run you over (and in Florida it will do so with a monster truck with three huge flags waving behind it with an amplified muffler as it barrels down the road making sure everyone can see it). This part brings up fear in me - not feeling safe - fear of being violated, of being overpowered...it's difficult to square that with freedom and sovereignty (of course freedom and sovereignty have little to do with safety). Still some of the wave of energy as it shows up on the surface, that is calling for sovereignty, does not seem to honor it for ALL - just for some - same old story. On a bigger picture, I get it; in the microcosm, it still feels like power over others.

I would love to work this out, and if there are reflections on it, I am totally open to it.

Thank you! Jen