Lynn E. OConnor
Clinical psychologist, researcher, consultant & writer --Is there something you've always wanted to ask a psychologist? Go ahead, try me.
2y ago
Loving-kindness and compassion are failing. Instead, why don't we chant: "Lock him up and gag him."
Lynn E. O'Connor, PhD

To write every day while avoiding what's hitting us squarely across the face -- waking me up every morning, and keeping me awake each night-- it's time for a change in tactics.

A demagogue --while inciting the crazies in the US population-- is breaking one law after another. So why doesn't the DOJ --or, to be more precise, the hardworking FBI some elected officials have been calling "wolves" --Why don't they just arrest him? And stop insulting wolves.

"LOCK HIM UP" Isn't it time we started chanting? Isn't it time we end our chant with: "AND GAG HIM."

"LOCK HIM UP and GAG HIM." That's the refrain, let's go,

When a law-breaking demagogue is captured, when no one is really above the law and those who break the law are arrested, let's just see what happens.

Is the DOJ afraid there'll be violence? But violence is already happening-- and the threats of violence deafening.

LOCK HIM UP & GAG HIM. He won't shut up while you baby him, he won't shut up while you're whispering in his ear: "Don't worry sweetheart, we don't mean you any harm."

Come on, where is our courage? LOCK HIM UP & GAG HIM. And all those dishonest sycophants crawling around him, please take them all out as well.

So I can wake up with a smile and fall asleep singing softly. This may not be "The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva," but loving-kindness and compassion are getting us nowhere.

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