Really pretty funny to see so many US Buddhists fail so thoroughly at emulating Gandhi (in leveraging their religious ethics for political purposes).
If you want to do politics, you need to learn how to first.
Whatever their other faults, Hindu gurus tend to multiclass.
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Not to say this would be easy. The US state is a propaganda machine orders of magnitude more potent than the late British Empire.
But that just drives home how inadequate it is to bolt some metta onto light reading of political theory.
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I don't hate people for getting engaged when they see something wrong, but what I see is a lot like some political theorist reading Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha and then setting out to fix Buddhism based on their "understanding"!
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Even if it took you until Trump to understand how the US has *always* been, even if that understanding is still tainted by "Trump's America" fantasies, it's a good thing.
Eyes half-open are better than shut.
But don't think this is constitutes an adequate education.
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Some really (really) basic questions to ponder:
- What does war plan red tell you about the purpose of the Marshall plan?
- What does it say about the US of today that Boorstin's "The Image" could be published in *1962*?
- What does COINTELPRO imply about today's DNC?
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It's all well and good to fault the alt-right for being moral idiots, but I can tell you a lot of them did more reading on this than y'all.
Hold yourselves to a higher standard!