Over a life time I have come to understand the famous or influential people I have both admired and encountered as regular human beings, full of vanities, foibles, contradictions, heroic actions, kindness, cruelty, betrayal and often capable of great empathy and equilibrium under duress.  In short they turned out to be people on the human scale whatever their level of fame and fortune were, are or might be. Having followed the energy of this election cycle for 12 years (yes my ‘arc of the future’ has been troubled a long time) I am amazed at how we as a nation have within us the capacity to treat some candidates as if they have exceeded the human scale and are unique giants and potential kings with or without clothes.

I do not believe there is anyone more dangerous than a human being who has forgotten their own humanity on the human scale of things.  On the individual level, we are not so much flawed, but rather we are incomplete. To be complete we are absolutely dependent on community participation to grow and thrive. When any one of us claim self-standing God like attributes or  a unique and direct line to any God we can only brace ourselves for something very bad to happen when that delusion is blended with power.  These postings have focused on the attributes of good in relationship to the contest before us in the United States and the world.  The one thing I believe we all need to do is find humility and whole world intelligence in the person we vote for.  The tradition of the United States was to carve out a system of governance that harvested the authority of the people who do the work, raise the children and create the art and engineer the structure of this nation and to end forever the gratuitous, often cruel and self-serving power of the “God-Anointed King”.  

So I encourage us to elect someone comfortable in their own skin, aware of their interdependence with community, both nationally and internationally, but most importantly, fully aware they are only human.  At least that is my Sense of Good in this matter of sustaining the democracy.