I am always amazed at the hubris of politicians when they reference a military term when they talk about the staff of a political candidate as “camp”, i.e. ‘some one from Romney’s camp said thus and so.’ Recently Mike Steele, RNC Chairman stirred the fudge when he said that Mormonism and abortion issues sank Romney’s chance to get the Republican nomination for President in 2008.
Mitt Romney’s spokesperson Eric Ferhnstrom fired back saying, “When you shoot from the hip you miss the target.” What I want to ask Eric is “What happens when you shoot from the lip?” Ah, therein lies the rub, as Shakespeare wrote.
When people ask me what is going to happen around the scary 2012 timeline; they are always looking for some seer or latter-day Nostradamus to splash doom and gloom all over the books they write or their Blogs. I like to really make them wait for revelation by answering, “Nothing. Absolutely nothing is going to happen. Now go back to your golf game.” (or knitting, is my favorite). When the truth of the matter is that what is going to happen has already begun to happen.
I picked on the word” camp” today because we usually think of “camp” as a military term. “Camp” sounds like these people are at war but actually what they are all about is nonsense. So, one of the critical elements of the End of the Mayan Calendar (2012) is that politics as we know it will be diminished and/or disabled and crippled. The constituency (aka voters) will decide to opt out of the stupidity and rancor known as politics. We are going to have to restructure and retool what all the hot air blowers are trying to hoodwink us with: we must expose and refuse to believe half-truth or outright lies. Within ten years we will see a major shift and change in how we elect our public officials including the President of the United States.
The next time you hear someone refer to another’s “camp” tune out; turn off your ears and shut your eyes and stop processing the nonsense. It is just another bully using his pulpit to drive you and me either crazy or deeper into foxholes of fear.
Albert Clayton Gaulden is the founding director of the Sedona Intensive and author of You’re Not Who You Think You Are: A Breakthrough Guide to Discovering the Authentic You. For more information about Albert and Sedona Intensive visit http://www.sedonaintensive.com/.
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