When people find it difficult living within a certain situation, they could either ignore it, deny it, leave it altogether, or live with it, no matter the negativity of the situation.
In all those situations, self-denial is involved. The individuals do not confront the issue but rather sidetrack it.
Inevitably, people have to confront issues that make them uncomfortable. And when the national soul is involved, the stronger the case for them to confront the issue.
Last Dec. 11, 2016, a NYT item appeared in a report thus:
"Last week, Central Intelligence Agency officials presented lawmakers with a stunning new judgment that upended the debate: Russia, they said, had intervened with the primary aim of helping make Donald J. Trump president.
The
C.I.A.’s conclusion does not appear to be the product of specific new
intelligence obtained since the election, several American officials,
including some who had read the agency’s briefing, said on Sunday.
Rather, it was an analysis of what many believe is overwhelming
circumstantial evidence — evidence that others feel does not support
firm judgments — that the Russians put a thumb on the scale for Mr.
Trump, and got their desired outcome."
In other words, the US exercise of suffrage had been tainted by the acts of Russia making the election results highly questionable.
Yet, majority of the news coming out is that the presidential aspirant, the recipient of the hacking is dominating the scene and his acts of appointing this and that person, here and there, appear to make his election valid.
Is it not a case of national suicide to accept what is going on without much soul-searching?
It is quite surprising that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Is it possible that by living with a lie, of sustaining the current electoral situation whereby Russia had penetrated their communication facilities and had drawn the country to allow the presidential aspirant to arise, though lacking in support of the people's votes, the whole nation is slowly being pulled to committing suicide?
Now is the time for transcending partisanships and partyism where the national soul is involved.
In 1987, I went to Moscow to attend the World Congress of Women, Gorbachev was still the head of the USSR then, as he was pushing for perestroika, a move to make peace a reality in the world. As soon as I arrived there with the members of the Forward Looking Women or FLOW, a cooperative assembly of women's groups composed of women from the rural sector, urban poor sector, radical groups, and middle class conservative women, my passport was kept by the Russian organizer. It was only when I was about to board the plane to depart and go home was it given back to me.
The schedule was so tight and organized that I could hardly breathe from the flurry of activities going on. I decided to board a bus to see for myself alone, without the guarding of the organizer, how Moscow was. Then I wandered into the Patrick Lumumba University, and a bliss-type condominium. No, they looked as run-down as the old university we have and the tenement housing built by Imelda for the poor of Tondo. The people I saw did not look happy. A Filipino scholar I had met told me the conditions were worse inside the dormitory of the university. Even in Kiev, where I met the village people who suffered from the disaster caused by the Chernobyl accident, lacked that joie de vivre which I had expected to see, since under a Communist system, I thought people's needs would be well-taken care of.
Yes, maybe they could live, their physical lives were cared for, but how about their emotions, their souls?
By the way, I thought I was moving about freely but when I got off the bus, and looked back, I saw a man in green trenchcoat uniform, the last person to get off. After all, he had been there all along....
It is difficult to accept what is happening now in the world. Putin the head of Russia is considered the most powerful man by Forbes Magazine. Yet he is behind the bombings in Syria together with Assad, and now the infiltration of the elections of the United States. Under what criteria should power be held -- may I ask the Magazine people. Are they not perpetuating a truncated view of political power?
Political power must nurture caring and humane individual and national souls. It must nurture life itself so that people will care for other people. That is not only being Christian, that is being human.
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