This is worth the read.
I will add my two cents.
Each of us, in every moment, has a choice to try and improve the world, or to allow sloth and apathy to dominate us, to simply drift.
Often, improving the world involves improving ourselves. We can be more contemplative. Alternatively, we can be more active. Always, what we do, though, flows from who we are and what we value.
When we improve the world, we put something into it. It might be the energy to help a little old lady across the street. It might be having done the inner work to be able to relate honestly to others, to understand them, to support them where they live, and to thereby help build happiness and trust where it was not present. This is important work.
With regard to Trump the question is this: do I vote for someone who I dislike simply because he is less bad than the alternative, or do I privilege my VANITY over that choice, and pretend that I become better, or the world becomes better, when I refuse to make a decision in an important issue, simply because my vanity rejects the necessity of that choice?
Obviously, if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice (thanks Neal Peart).
Do you help Killary get one step closer, or push her one step farther from the White House? This should be a simple decision, and frankly I am disgusted at the intellectual incoherence, moral imbecility, and tacit admission of Leftist sympathies–or at least vulnerability to Leftist propaganda–which is exhibited by any person claiming to be conservative for whom this requires a more than 5 second deliberation.
You people believe nothing, if your vanity is more important than exercising what power you have for what good you can do.
Do what you can, with what you have, and do it now, as Teddy R. put it. And if you refuse, you are a whiny little bitch. That is how I see it. And I don’t like whiny little bitches. It saddens me to see that you are the people who claim to be on my team. I don’t want you.
And perhaps this whole conservative thing has just been a phase, like cross dressing. If you want to get back to the roots of your core indoctrination, have at it. With tepid friends, who the fuck needs enemies?