Donald Drumpf- Incessant liar and manipulator

Tony DeLorger © 2016

If you want the proof to all the lies and claims of this would be president, the John Oliver Show just delivered all that and more in his latest hilarious offering. Trump the man is clearly a narcissist of the highest order, deluded on such grandiose levels that even he believes his twisted viewpoints to be reality. He is clearly not what he appears, in wealth, in character, in business, his intention and the lies are so complex, this man is a joke, especially when he is being considered for presidency. This is a horror story, as funny in its truth as it is dangerous in its possible ramifications.

Before you vote for the showbiz Trump, you owe it to yourself to watch John Oliver, when all the stats and truths are researched and the veil of lies removed.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a42541/john-oliver-donald-trump-video/

Ensuring a Future

Tony DeLorger © 2016

What two things, apart from a healthy economy, does a country need to maintain to ensure the future prosperity of its people? Education is the first, ensuring future generations can embrace technology and change as the world changes. Second is healthcare, ensuring the next generation is fit and able to cope with an uncertain world, and the elderly, who have already worked their entire lives, are taken care of in their twilight years. Yet in many countries, countries with the supposed highest living standards in the world, these two areas of responsibility are sadly neglected, as the struggle with economics and keeping balance sheets in the black force decisions to cut basic needs.

As the great divide increases between upper and lower classes, poverty is becoming a disease within many first world countries, who spend more on weaponry than education, and whose health systems are failing catastrophically. The failure of economic policies force leadership to strip these areas of necessity to bolster their own perceived successes and the people suffer as a consequence. Surely education and healthcare are together the most important means by which any government ensures a positive future for a country. But sadly politicians are more interested in their own careers rather than the future of the constituents they represent.

The so called middle classes are diminishing, either forging ahead in ascension or becoming poorer than they could have ever imagined. Yes they may have a nice car in the drive, and a huge mortgage on their house and pool, but how safe is their superficial lifestyle, if the economy goes belly up? In this day and age, the possibilities are far more a threat than they used to be. In a world where war is commonplace, and refugees by the millions strewn across the globe, the stresses of economic instability are taking a toll. War costs money, supporting refugees costs money, and when third world countries become the hub of manufacturing, traditional industries in first world countries are lost. Change dictates drastic measures and many governments in desperation are slowly picking away at essential services to try to maintain the coffers.

In Australia, we have slowly been losing our manufacturing industries for years, lost to cheap labor in our neighboring Asian region, and as the mining boom begins to fade, we are faced with huge problems, desperately seeking innovations to fill the holes than manufacturing leaves in our ability to trade in world markets. So where does the money come from, to maintain essential services like healthcare and education, if we are not selling more than we're buying? More taxes?

I don't want to be the voice of negativism, but to what do we invest our thinking: war and righteous quests or taking care of our people? Do we keep paying CEO's and politicians ridiculous amounts of money, while half the populations can't afford health insurance, and must wait up to four years to have a necessary operation like a knee replacement? Inequity in capitalist society is beginning to look a lot like communism; those at the top living is absolute luxury, the rest of us bordering on poverty. It's really not much of a stretch if you think about it.

The world is continually evolving, and the changes can bring about much upheaval, but common sense seems to have been lost on many levels. It's something to think about.

Polls- Never Definitive, but an Indicator

Tony DeLorger © 2016

Derived from questioning a cross-section of society, both geographically and socio-economically, polls can in no way predict political outcomes, but they certainly show trends and can indicate when all is not well. Malcolm Turnbull entered the leadership role not voted in by the Australian people but by deposing the then Prime Minister Tony Abbot. Although he had become unpopular through making some hard economic decisions and several faux pas which gave the media a field day, the masses seemed to embrace the new PM and the honeymoon period ensued.

But reality soon intervenes, and some months later Turnbull's miraculous polling results for preferred leader and Primed Minister have gone to virtually 100% down to 50%. Considering that Turnbull's opposition is Bill Shorten, the most inept leader in Australian political history, and who no-one in their right mind would vote for, a 50% share really says something. Although Turnbull still holds the reigns as our PM, the parties are both on an even keel. That must be a huge kick in the guts for the Liberals.

Malcolm Turnbull is an opportunist, joining the Liberal Party because he believed not in their policies but as the only way he could become the Prime Minister. He was right, but is he up for the job? I believe the Australian public are now seeing a man who can't make up his mind, is too afraid to make decisions and who can play the political games and talk his way out of anything. But is that what we want? What has the man done for our country? Virtually nothing.

I believe that this man is a pretender, and not a loyal one at that. I also believe that the public are figuring this out, which isn't good for the Liberal Party. Labour are of course scratching their heads, wondering what to do with Shorten, the most unpopular poli in history. Get rid of him, for God sake, he'll take Labour nowhere.

So what have we got, we, the people of Australia? It feels like we're all caught between a rock and a hard place. Replacing Abbot was a mistake, and although he had a rough patch, he would have risen above it, because he was doing the right thing for the country, which at the time, no-one recognised. Parties imploding and deposing one another does not create any kind of political stability, and that's what we're now seeing.

This coming election is going to be very interesting.

What Remains

Tony DeLorger © 2016

Elements of me can still be seen,
for most have faded in life's time waged,
worn down resolves, hope and dreams, 
lost to the evolving experiences of existence,
and reflections just attest the loss,
show what remains, 
an often unrecognizable remnant
of a gradually bleached memory.

In the wake of life, as cells regenerate, 
replaced within the parameters of cycles,
so do thoughts, dreams and intentions,
evolving into plights far from wants,
and in that we see the new in a strange,
unidentifiable form, a stranger
in the mirror, peering back pensively.

And when those eyes beg resolve,
that maudlin expression questions,
what can reality say but shrug,
the pathways inexplicably tangential,
lost to original will,
and seeking answers to all of it,
every deviation father from plans.

What recognition remains is profound,
as it has survived like no other aspect,
and perhaps those are the true wills, 
the true pathways of realization,
those that sit at the core of who we are, 
and so I hold them close, 
move on when all else is lost.

No dream is clear-cut, no intention secure,
regardless of righteousness,
for it's the deviations that bring us clarity,
to see the real path, 
who we are, our destined place in this,
our evolving soul, 
our fleeting human life.

Is Love So Difficult?

Tony DeLorger © 2016

Many times I've wondered, let mind and soul to freedom, in hope of love's warm embrace and a wordless understanding. And many times, love fell short in people's capacity to give, unconditionally. I ponder this abyss of irresolute love, those unwilling to surrender to its pure intent, and realize so few accept love's will, instead the self pushes forward, always at the top of the queue.

I wonder why a simple acknowledgement, a reasonable choice to partake in love's sweet elixir, is so difficult for so many, always receding to a shell within which the heart is shackled and wary of all who wander too close. Such apparent fear drives may people, and in accepting fear, they miss out on life's riches, life's greatest rewards of loving freely and being loved in return.

Living life so afraid, living within controllable parameters and within a shell of protection, surely must inhibit all aspects of life, down to simple pleasantries, day to day manners and acceptance of people wherever we go and with whom we deal with in daily living. Imagine how much more we could experience if we brought our A-game to every interaction, with every person we see, speak to, negotiate with and share with in all aspects of living. This secret joy awaits all who dare to live life with love, to share and experience life with a positive and warm intent, not hiding but interacting with humanity in an open and profound way. Wouldn't that be a different and better world?

When we are grateful for every breath, every connection with people, we shine like beacons of light, joy the only circumstance that can exist in our experience, and therefore shared with everyone we contact, whether it be a 'good morning', opening a door for someone or simply a smile of acceptance; the world responds in like.

Either we are driven by love or fear, the choice is ours, but wouldn't it be easier if love ruled our lives? Love isn't that difficult, surely?

One True Direction

Tony DeLorger © 2016

We are a tribute to the light within,
if only we would let it out,
to shine as is meant, 
to reveal what we offer
to a world in thirst of light.

Striving, accumulating, driving
a life to ends dreamed, 
is all worthwhile,
but if we are not who we truly are,
doing what we truly love,
we are fraudulent.

Compliance, necessity, responsibilities,
are all accepted reasons, 
but only if by them we are true to the self,
doing what we do through our talent,
our expression of love to the world.

Love or fear are our choices and path,
from these two we forge our lives,
and when love is chosen, light revealed,
there is nothing impossible,
a universe of ceaseless joy accommodates.

Despair is the crutch of disillusion,
and disillusion is simply the knowing 
of a light-less life,
and joy the realization of a true self,
uninhibited by other concerns, love pervading all.

Potential is boundless,
light eternal and inexhaustible,
it is we who must decide,
who we are, and what we wish to do in life,
there are no other truths that delivers us, 
but through love's light.

Hitler Incarnate

Tony DeLorger © 2016

WTF!!!! I simply do not understand how Donald Trump can have anyone following him, and worse think that he, in any way could be a president of the USA, with all its influence on world economy and politics. This man truly is a lunatic, so swept away by his own ego, it would be impossible to pick which way he'd go on any issue. If by some curse of circumstance this man becomes president, I honestly feel our planet has run out of any hope at all and the end is nigh.

His runaway rhetoric surely proves where the man is, mentally, psychologically. His uncontrolled outbursts and attacks on anyone that crosses his own beliefs, is chilling. Imagine a global crises and he making the decisions?

Am I crazy, not understanding how people can get caught up in his flamboyant and showbiz type performances? I guess people are fed up with all the promises and downward spiraling of America's fast waning dream. Perhaps he allows them to vent, make themselves feel better, and perhaps developing rage gives them some feeling of power, of control, when reality simply confirms their worst fears.

America is in a mess, on virtually every level. Corruption has become the norm, and class distinction now an oppression. The merry-go-round of racial hatred and bias has driven the law to ridiculous lengths and with the highest inmate stats per capita in the world, is it any wonder people see no hope for a future, just a continuation of death by constitutional weaponry.

In this circumstance, people honestly want Donald Trump for president? He being the savior, perhaps like Adolph Hitler looked unifying Germany, instilling a swell of patriotic fervor as he gains control to slowly exact his true ambitions   at the cost of all, except himself.

These are dangerous times, surely.

Perfection Reigns

Tony DeLorger © 2016

Perfection embraces imperfection

as an integral part of its being,

for our perspective of lesser states

is an ignorance in light of reality,

a misnomer of the pure functions of life,

ruled by the undulations of cause and effect.

What appears imperfect is perfection

in the eyes of evolving states,

the perpetual movement and progressions

of mind and body within the parameters

of a perspective that incorporates the whole,

not just one aspect of understanding.

Each component of life is perfect in state,

but not always in expression,

how we observe life's growth and movement,

which includes human reasoning, choices and circumstance,

evolving in learning and thus approaching a more perfect expression,

what we see and assume is perfection.

Yet perfection rules existence with a deft hand,

our perspective often governed by ill-conceived parameters,

and how we see ourselves, often a disservice,

an inhibiting expression of what is meant to be,

and how we choose to appreciate this reality,

dictates our very aspirations and accomplishments thereof.

We, each single one, are perfect as we are meant,

and how we choose to express ourselves,

either grows or diminishes our potential,

but regardless we are always perfect in state,

our expression always undergoing change and in struggle,

in order to maintain the law of balance.

No matter our observations, all remains in balance,

or in the process of restoring it,

life and indeed existence unable to be, without it,

thus perfection reigns as a state of reality,

imperfection a superficial relic of human assumption.