It is hard to debate with ignorance. There is no logic or sense that can get through the fog of misinformation. It seems a heavy cloud of ignorance has been proliferating in rural America. We knew it was there but we haven’t done anything about it and now - what can be done?

They’re storming the Capital, they’re in the government, they’re in the police department, and most unfortunately they are the teachers in rural schools. Ignorance teaching ignorance equals ignorance.

What this means is that if we really want change, we hippy-woke people need to get into the trenches and start working harder. We have to get off our meditation cushions, put down our joint, and get into the schools. We need to turn on the children to the larger possibilities of life. Education should be mind-expanding, not close-mindedness.

We are all challenged to our very core and this is a good thing. It is a time of deep restructuring and in order to do real therapy, we need to address the beliefs that hold us back.

As a country, the civil war has not really been healed. The war was won but the trauma and racism were never really dealt with. Maybe we didn’t have the social tools to do that work but now we do. We understand more about human needs and how mental healing works. We can see now what unaddressed trauma can lead to - generations of entrenched false beliefs and projections.

Someone said to me that we should just kill all the Trumpites. Well, that would be a blood bath and would lead to more trauma. The harder road is to have them come to the realization that their beliefs are false and have led them down a rabbit hole of negativity. How is this done? They will take care of it themselves by creating misery and havoc and our job is to witness and refute.

To witness something with a mind that does not condone has tremendous power, especially if we stand with others, untied against the unsavory actions. We can see what the recent storming of the Capital building has done to change people’s perception. But that won’t be enough. There will be more and we must stand united against the facest ignorance to proclaim the hard-one rights of equality, justice, and democracy as the true American values.