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Columbian Uncivil Allegiances

It was a nasty war. To call it an UnCivil War is to avoid an obvious oxymoron as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence through lack of Anger and Fear Management, violently over-industrious absence of mutual civility. We were too optimistic about democracy's therapeutic capacity to heal still bleeding racist and sexist and anthro-supremacist wounds. Meanwhile, First Nation truth-tellers predicted we newer natives must harvest xenophobic fascism as we supplanted lock-step European royalists to merely replant their WinLose colonizing intent without creolization's more slow-grown WinWin grace to begin and end each day with resilient gratitude for polycultured unity. To avoid mid-way one right-way rallies for ever more uniform allegiance to a patriotism defining who is healthy favored inside and who best remains pathologically inferior outside, bought and therefore sold through God's most obvious neglect, bred and bled at ego monoculturing will by those more sacredly sustaining inside this most perfect Union's not truly mutually enfranchising multicultural folds. Donald Trump is U.S. President, the hopefully last exhaust of UnCivil Wars, because he is not alone in unresolved conflicts about economic and political lines drawn between north and south, now blue against red, like diastatic and diastolic competitions, where cooperative co-delineations are hands-down essential to healthy organic circulation, Tranquility of Preambling Promise. Blue would restore uniting ecojustice as both sacred personal and secular public ecological vocation. Overly commodifying utilitarian Reds would return retributional revenge against those threatening sacred restorative lines of matriarchal equal with patriarchal rights of eco-stewardship To give up competing against hosts of alien nations to invest more nutritionally in cooperating with and as SkyWoman's Original Native EarthTribes, long before Eastern sightings of Nina, Pinta, and SantaMaria. This larger unresolved Civil War began renewed with ballistic forces when Columbus Day colonizers assumed European superiority. Yet was, at best, midway unfolded as North America's Great UnCivil War, then after-shocks of contested cooperative enfranchisements, advocacy and advertisements for mutually marching markets toward consummating eisegetical pledges of new-found allegiance to FatherLand while laying waste to anciently permacultural nutritions, kneaded and rewoven through Thanksgiving Resilience MotherEarth Exegesis. Together, we close each warring violent chapter with renewed opportunities to now, again, become of one united natural-spiritual mind; not mere monoculturally competing allegiances toward uniformity, but preferring instead both Blue with Red polyculturing cooperative unity, civilly NonViolent, more perfect, Unities.

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