“Politics or Cruelty?”
by Kelvin Chin
Life After Life Expert
I have my own political leanings and choices. I keep them to myself. I have found that reasonable, intelligent people can disagree on political issues.
However, I draw a clear line between disagreements on political issues and how a politician expresses their views and themselves to the public.
I have no tolerance for political leaders who publicly bully or otherwise act cruelly towards others.
It doesn’t matter if I even agree with the politician’s views on the issues in discussion. If that politician, regardless of their political party, consistently acts like a bully, they have lost my respect and perhaps my vote.
I expect my leaders to lead. That includes behaving like a leader.
“Leaders” are self assured, inwardly secure human beings. “Posers” are often brash, pushy and insecure. Leaders are good listeners and welcome others’ ideas. Posers might make you believe they are listening, only to act on their own selfish thoughts.
I suggest that our society and our world 🌎 might benefit from voting based on that distinction. Electing more of the former.
Why is this important?
Because when a crisis happens, which one do you want at the helm?
Of course, ideally you would want someone who both agrees with your political views and your leadership ideals. But what if that’s not what happened in the election? What if your candidate lost?
Wouldn’t it benefit us all — regardless of our political views — to educate our entire electorate, starting with our children who will eventually mature to be voters, to elect politicians (on both sides of the aisle) who are “leaders”? Not narcissistic bullies. Not “posers.”
In a crisis requiring complex decision making, I would argue that even the politician who disagrees with my political views yet has a strong inner presence based on self-confidence and self-knowledge would be better able to make socially conscious decisions than the politician who is inherently caught up in himself and who defaults to bullying others as his practice.
The latter — because of his personality type — is unable to get out of his own way. This can be fatal in a crisis. Maybe not to him, but to those around him. Even the world 🌎 at large.
To me, insecurity — and its frequent partner, cruelty — is a losing behavioral choice. Politicians who embody those fundamental flaws will not get my vote.
And they will not bring about freedom in the world, no matter how much they may profess and promise this to us, because the shackles of their insecurity within — inherently and subconsciously — will dictate inevitably that their external behavior be to shackle others.
Kelvin H. Chin is a Meditation Teacher, Life After Life Expert, and Author of “Overcoming the Fear of Death,” “Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations On Living Life” and “After the Afterlife: Memories of My Past Lives.” He learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching Turning Within Meditation and coaching others in their self-growth for 50 years. He helps people understand their life challenges through their individual belief systems, and helps them find their own solutions. His past life memories reach back many centuries, and he accesses those memories in his teaching and his coaching in the same way all coaches draw on their own available experiences for perspective and effective analogies. He can be reached at www.TurningWithin.org.