Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel lonely,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If you don't want a sopping wet tile bathroom floor
because I have thrown all my naked Barbie and Ken parts,
especially their water-filled hollow insides,
and the five saturated pools of stained white washcloths
I took out of that drawer just like you said not to,
and the sudsy soft bar of soap,
then you might want to reconsider leaving the bathroom
during my princess bath.
You might want to think of telling a smelly story
or listening to triggering behavioral lectures
I so mercilessly inflict
on the shattered heads of my daughter
dolls.
Perhaps oppositional cognitive dissonance
is what conservative bodies have against liberal minds,
and vice versa.
If you abled and empowered adults?
would be so kind as to return to cooperative civic and civil discussion,
about my intrinsic dignity, royalty perhaps,
sense of anthrosupreme entitlement,
immaculate integrity of your own Sacred Orthodox Experience,
utterly necessary to optimize sustainable and resilient health
for all mindful Americans,
regardless of mature, healthy abilities
(although perhaps not quite sufficient),
Including those who happen to have become embarrassed
by their unhealthy wealth and extravagant disregard
for undercommodified humane values,
like caring and nurturing, loving and therapeutic
co-mentoring relationships,
sacred integrity,
a moral economy rooted in co-invested compassion,
eco/bio/neuro-logical environ-mental cooperative networks
of bilaterally peaceful communication,
Like the graceful synergy of all natural systems,
most especially religiously reconnecting polycultural values
delivering a unitarian positive
co-redemptive humility,
co-owning
that we all created this rapacious
win/lose
0-sum mess together.
So, please stop leaving the bathroom of discourse,
regardless of how rhetorically insane and polemic,
every time we complain about your nasty attitudes
about resiliently wealthy resonant health
optimizing natural/spiritual economic growth.
Then you protest
by voting for the one you mistrust the least,
as we go right on doing
what we intended
while throwing water
on CommonSense slippery-floor economics
of radical,
reverse-hierarchical interdependence
and win/win co-investment.
Much too "EarthLand solidarity" for Republican taste
as nationalistic trusted Safe,
much less Just to those who prefer
economically entrenched competitive silos
monoculturally starving soils
anthrosupremacist souls.
And,
our democratic family value parents
hear oppositionally disordered Republicans
as if They were terrorizing aliens,
like predative bumbling bees and red ant hives,
devoid of deductive-inductive co-rational accessibility
of even one unfractured dimension of resonance,
and without capacity to empathize with our well-mentored habit
of continually forgetting we could not restore a higher priority
right now
than retelling our anthrosupremacist co-dependents
Dr. Seuss's The Lorax
Interpreting each voice as our own regret,
wondering why we continue competing
to reach a Win/Win EarthPeace Game,
and political
and economic
and ecological
and cultural
and biological healthy and caring finish line,
no longer alone in our polycultural
PolyLife
Yum-Yum
yang/yin co-arising Paradise.
When I think about cooperative feelings
I can see that my competitive political
and economic parental entitled assumption,
that MeWe co-investment will not have EarthChild's final say,
is not scientifically,
or even multiculturally
religiously sound,
rational,
integral,
designed to benefit future resilient regenerations,
much less monotheistically autocratic.
You can't win a P=NP,
4-fractal/spiral non(0)-sum
cooperative economic ecological plan
until everyone else has the freedom
and integrity
and ecotherapeutic orthopraxis comprehension,
intention,
to win/win together,
not win/lose apart.
With this perhaps un-Christian,
and vaguely irreligious perspective
that Democratic mutual-redeemer culture
is closer to non(0) sum Core PeaceValue Heaven
rationality, inductive+deductive,
than appears to be the case
for our benighted Republican
wealthy fat-cat anthropocentric extractive residents of Earth,
we have turned rather too far elitist
our polycultural revolution pendulum
away from owning the trauma of monocultural monotheism,
irreligious poverty and the overpowering commodification of organic lives,
and the predation of other species,
and the stratification of Earth's organic Power
from Sun's sacred Light
Under-producing Her capacity to regenerate fertile maturing seeds,
turning away from sin as sterile isolating insanity,
wild savaging disability,
absence of healthy wilderness love
to now prophesy the trauma of monopolistic drenching wealth,
and overly ballistic power;
to notice challenging, dissonant tipping points
within monocultural,
monochromatic,
monopolistic
bicamerally competing ecopolitical uncertainty
and ecological dysfunction for all neurosystems,
all ecosystemic land loyalty
is not necessarily egosystemic nation idolatry,
All sexsensory healthy families
connecting our more humane DNA-informed
bicameral information deep inhaling branch of EcoTribe,
RNA-inscribed,
transliterate,
multisystemic and polyculturally Climaxing Community
Interdependently Beloved
coincidentally straining and stressing to comprehend
Polynomial SpaceTime = Not-Not Polynomial Open Systemic Binomial Prime Relationship Temporal "Now"
as Yang-convex/positive = Yin-concave/negative
So, yes, democracy, not autocracy, may be somewhat closer
to healthy wealth now,
but closer doesn't count
when playing Win/Win economic ecotherapy;
Donkey clown shoes stretch to fit win/win elephants.
Speaking of elephants in too-narrow-minded oppositional spaces,
where was I?
Oh, yes, she’s in the bathtub again,
better watch that wild wet floor.
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