So... is it "Buddhist" to be apolitical? I found an interesting discussion of this troublesome question on another blog, No Zen in the West. The post included this quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu:
NO MANDATE!
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”Anyway, here is my own "political" thinking for the day:
NO MANDATE!
Enough! There is no mandate! Republican leaders must finally
admit that their “president-elect” is irremediably compromised and unfit to set
foot in the Oval Office. He has proved himself to be morally deficient and
ethically challenged, a congenital and compulsive liar, an arrogant bully, with
an ego so fragile it bursts out in childish fits of rage at the least
provocation. He has shown himself to be shallow and willfully, proudly, shamefully
ignorant. He was “elected” not with a mandate, but rather by a historical
minority of American voters, with the connivance of a hostile foreign power.
There is no mandate, and Republican leadership must stop
acting as though there were. No ramming through Senate hearings for cabinet
nominations of people no more fit and no better prepared for their posts than
the man who put their names forward. No gutting of a health bill that has saved
many American lives and spared millions more the agony and insecurity of living
without simple health insurance. No trashing of international climate
agreements to save the planet from the disastrous consequences of man-made
global warming. No shredding of sensible regulations that protect the
environment from exploitation and citizens from corporate rapacity.
Enough! We must call on Republicans to acknowledge the truth
that is evident to the vast majority of us: there is no mandate, and their
leader is flawed beyond help or remedy. He is not deserving of their support,
nor of ours. Before they act upon their agenda, they should listen carefully
and pay heed to the priorities and preferences of the people they are elected
to serve. Their arrogance and willful blindness to the irrefutable and
dangerous unfitness for office of their “president-elect” is in stark
contradiction to the patriotism they so piously profess. Their obstinate tone-deafness
to the wishes of the majority of Americans is reprehensible beyond words.
Enough, people! Enough!
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