Do unto others before they do it to you, for whatever you do will return. Good, bad, or indifferent things will happen when turning the other cheek, depending on how you play out the scenarios. The biblical equivalent of forcing others to do something they don’t want to do. Working ain't working. Freedom ain’t free. The American Dream is over. It’s the hoo-doo in the voodoo. Karma originated from the Sanskrit of Buddhist and Hindu traditions. A reckoning of promise based on the cause and effect of pious actions and dastardly deeds. For better or worse, predicting outcomes in daily life’s travails is useless.
The basis of all human existence depends upon the ability to survive while making decisions based on what and how karma will bring about its reward, judgment, and punishments. It may not always be obvious to everyone, but it’s in there. Some guy died on a cross. So it was written. God created man in his own image. Some fearful old white dude with a gun. Hold your Bible high and say, I’m a billionaire. I’m right and rich with the Lord. It may depend on your personal beliefs, but it’s one way to look at the world around us. Them that got is those that get. To see the consequences of questionable past behavioral patterns in history, look around.
Just how and why the causes and effects play out over and over like a skipping song on a record stuck in a loopy groove. Leave it open to interpretation. An imperfect union searching for perfection that doesn’t exist in the detestable lies of what should never be. The experience of this country isn’t just about being perfect, moral, or righteous but also about how we live a decent life in this rapidly disappearing modern society. Right and wrong blur into maybes and likely probabilities. Educated guessers and experts have no problem telling you what to think and do every waking moment. The Know-Nothings and media puppet heads babble on.
The great dream deferred in utter defeat. Tyranny rules. The people are slaves to a mad music of jackboots stomping. Cruel overlords with golden accoutrements. That comfortable daydream of success, happiness, and freedom for and by the people. A new standard of barely living for everyone except for that handful of elites who own us. Those few miserable excuses for men who have never suffered the indignity of having nothing at all. The big bummer of being without bare-bones necessities is surviving in the unsustainable system called American capitalist fascism.
Just another ism in the schisms. How patriotic. A polite way of saying it's for greedy pigs high within the corporate culture of forever wars against anything that ain’t white. They say if you work hard and save your money, you too can grab the golden ring of the good life and be big winners. Lifestyles of the rich and infamous. It’s built into the system. Screw the little guy. Might as well bend over and take it. Wouldn’t shed half a tear over any of that unholy mess. Living in this country today is like being kept in a dark cage without the light of day. Even when the sun shines, the world burns. The tears of strangers are just salty water.
That’s equivalent to a life sentence for crimes against humanity committed by the least qualified among us. It started long ago when the first pilgrims settled on this land that wasn’t theirs to take. But they took it anyway and continued on to manifest destiny. The idea that America is destined by God in some providence to take what was never meant to be theirs. By sheer force and mass genocide, this nation committed and continues to commit atrocities against its citizens and the world at large, who will not bow down to their will. The ancient Roman Empire gave its citizens bread, wine, colosseums, and circuses. The British Empire offered beer, tobacco, tea, weapons, opium, the slave trade and no sense of humor. Every degrading vice known to mankind spread around the globe.
Handed down throughout history and beyond to the present-day daily dilemmas of late. The Jim Crow southerners, the John Birch Society, and the Ku Klux Klan. The neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and QAnon conspiracy theorists are all thrown in the stewpot of raw sewage mixing violence, abuse, and hatred against women, children, and people of color. To anyone who refuses to bow down to their golden God king. The insecure, impotent white mentality of old, affluent white men starting wars in the name of their gods.
Hiding behind Christian propaganda and the flag of lies as they peer unblinking through eyehole slits in white hooded sheets. Barely thinking. It’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that they hate everyone that doesn’t conform to their White Christian Nationalist agenda. Instant karma will come to get them and their ilk. Fear mongers who bottom-feed in the swamp beware. You exist fat and happy now, but you’ll have a comeuppance soon.