The Obama Project@WindonWater.net

I started this blog feeling a need to speak into some of the issues raised by the Obama and Clinton campaigns, feeling compelled to speak out against false assumptions, and to provide insights where I could.  But all the time I felt myself perhaps in the wrong – Baha’is, while obliged to vote, are also obliged to avoid partisan politics like the plague.  I find myself kneedeep in partisan politics – if not actively so, certainly emotionally so.  And I find myself, and all the country poorer off because of it.

I’m mourning my dad right now (he died today  – call came at 3 a.m., perhaps fittingly), so I don’t have the strength or focus to post about this fully, but when I get a chance, I will post about the Baha’i election process, and how much better than our partisan system it actually is.  For now, I will simply say – I’m so sorry to see people, otherwise rational and decent, on account of partisanship, be so easily manipulated into believing lies, falsehoods, spouting absurdities.  There is an evilness to it – an evil that delights in eviscerating the other side in the most vile of terms, that has a predisposition to see others in the worst possible light.

My support for Barack Obama is unwavering – I have a hope that he will create the necessary space in this country to do American politics better – and I have an abiding hope that the nation’s first black president aquits himself in such a manner that the prejudices that plague this nation will abate, the hidden fears will be laid to rest, and new doors of opportunity will be open to all.

BUT – I have come full circle, to a deep, abiding sense that politics as practiced in this country and others are inherently bad – and that the world needs to take a second look at the Baha’i revelation as a cure for what ails the world.

QT

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