A DIFFERENCE IN REALITY

This election cycle has been filled with live examples of subject matter to be used in the psychology textbooks for eons to come.

Watching the recent interview of the current FLOTUS by Oprah it crossed my mind that we all perceive life through our own specific lens.  The question of “what color is the sky on your planet” somehow took on new relevance for me.  While watching the first lady pack-up her ideological baggage in front of the cameras it was clearly evident her reality and view of past events were different than what I had seen on my planet.  The interpretation of reality is clearly translated and viewed through the language of life influences.

“We are feeling what not having hope feels like”

What a telling response to Oprah's question regarding the Obama administration's success in accomplishing the “Hope and Change” of Mr. Obama's campaign rhetoric.  Her answer was a slam at the PEOTUS and referred to the mental anguish of the anti-Trumpers.  She was also describing why she felt her husband's tenure had offered the country hope for change.  She mistakenly assumed that a majority of our society felt the same things about our country as she had been taught to believe.  Sadly enough her husband our President for the last eight years saw our country through similar life lenses.

When Mrs. Obama looks at our country, through her own life lessons, she sees the country that has been involved in many atrocities and a country that needs to atone for its sins against minority groups.  She sees the country that the Rev. Wright condemned from his pulpit for the twenty some years she and Barrack attended.  She, in fact, sees a country that needs to correct its direction, a country that is racist in nature, and she sees most whites as being bigoted.  In her husband's slogan of hope and change, she knew the change he was thinking of, and the hope was the possibility that through the power of the presidency the would take place.  Her disdain for the current state of the nation has been very evident in many of her comments and actions.

I can well imagine how she views her hopes as being dashed and that all possibilities of the change are on the verge of being dismantled.  What I think she misses is the fact that another large portion of our population felt our hope for change was completely different than the change she and her husband envisioned.

The difference in what those changes were is a large part of the vote that moved away from Mr. Obama’s camp and the Democratic candidate.  A lot of saw our hope going out the window with a continuation of the change in direction that the Obama administration tried to force upon us.  Our country is so divided that a loss of hope will be experienced by close to half of our population regardless of which party is in control of our government.

My hope and my prayer is that our country will become more cohesive, and tolerant, and ready to unite behind goals that help each and every member of our country’s society.  For me Mr. Trumps “Make America Great Again” rings a bell of optimism and hope.

God Bless the USA