Voter Polls in the Six Realms

Hearing three national election debates and skimming countless headlines about countless poll results made me wonder how "nangwa", the Tibetan Buddhist word for the warped way we individually perceive the straight forward facts our senses feed us, was playing out in this particularly frantic election season. We are down to the decision wire. The choice for how we see the future is between the past (Romney and Tea Party Republicans angry about the present) and whatever (Obama and clueless Democrats paralyzed by the present and relying on government funded contraception to allow no birth of real change). So I went polling through the six realms.

Those in the cold hells are voting 10% for the candidate who says the climate is warming up and 90% for the candidate who denies it is warming up so that it actually keeps doing just that.

Those in the hot hells are 70% for the candidate who refuses to admit things could get hotter and 30% for the candidate who realizes climate change and really wants to cool things off. Among the 70% are hotheads burning up billions that could have produced food, roads and schools in fiery Republican super-Pacs dedicated to producing an even hotter hell: billions as in bills since they definitely do not want change.

The Hungry Ghosts polled 99% for the Drill, Baby, Drill and no slacking on fracking candidate, and 99% against the candidate who wants to let the EPA raise MPG standards and pollution controls (1% margin of error). They polled 100% for the candidate backing bank bailouts and repeal of both the Dodd-Frank act and the Consumer Protection Agency that would diminish their take. The Neo con men are 100% for increased defense spending even if the Defense Department doesn't want to because this group can never get its hands on enough countries and is already hungrily grasping at other planets. They agree 100% that the word share is a noun, as in my share, and are voting Republican 100% (no margin for error).

The animals by a margin of 65%-35% get climate change: the birds just migrated to the sunbelt, the seals and lobsters swam out to deeper water, the squirrel outside my window just fattened himself silly on the new crop of mushrooms sprouted in all the rain. He's also running around collecting acorns, knowing beyond doubt weather change is inevitable. This segment lives in the very real world. In contrast, I am in the 35% who live in the man-made virtual one and am a human animal in denial. I thought it would be warm enough for me to stay in a summerhouse without a deep water supply through November but the plumber just woke me up to realization of imminent freezing temperatures whether I wanted them or not.  

Still the animal realm operates on instinct and lives in fear. Some of this segment likes to butt heads to be alpha. No surprise this subset is 75% for the Tea Party and 100% for the Republicans' performance in Congress.The  hiber nation bloc is 53% for Obama; 47% were too lazy to participate and be counted but did want the results.

The human realm is faintly divided between hope (Democrats) and fear (Republicans), those who can't wait for impermanence to kick in (Progressives, moving on) and those totally terrified it will (Conservatives holding on). The motivating word for these voters is instead: yes or no. 

Since corporations have now become people, they are in that clinging group. The only impermanence they now countenance is fast change from their once championed planned obsolescence to we are the be all and end all: no way anybody gets to invent something new that replaces what we make or do--or everybody gets hurt. Got that?

Humans are the voting bloc where realization of incorruptible truth is possible. 70% believes abortion, as well as love between two people whoever they are. is a private nonpolitical matter, private life being the root of liberty in the Declaration of Independence.  90% insist America is indeed exceptional: its citizens die in droves for lack of medical help which is now controlled by lawyers, the guys too scared of really drawing blood to be doctors. 99% are aware millions of people are out of work and food even though something could've be done to prevent that. A slight majority sees the word share as a verb. There is  a small subset in this bloc avowing support for a Bodhisattva agenda, best described as the common good. 50% are Democratic, 30% Green and 20% for a write-in candidate, Dalai Lama whose address is Nirmanakaya, wherever that is.

The Asuras, or jealous gods, battle for blood. 80% are recycled Republicans who now believe in the word "instead": they are so jealous that Democrats are in the White House they will fight to the finish of the whole country just to get themselves in there. This bloc does not see the word share as a verb. It is so jealous of oil supplies in other countries, it is 100% for more invasions--as long as these individuals themselves don't have to actually do the dirty and dangerous work of invading. 1% does not believe in the word "instead" and is in favor of fighting the 99% at all costs to prevent them from invading their penthouse realm.

Among the gods where pride goeth before a fall it's 50-50. The insular White House leads the way for Democrats and the insulated 1% for Republicans. 100% vote for never apologizing because love means never having to say you're sorry and this bloc really does love itself. 100% look down on the other blocs because they can do so from their private planes. This group is 100% for the government because the government is 100% for, about and by them. 100% say, as they see it, they don't have to vote because all the odds are in their favor no matter who wins.









~Sandy Garson "Wordsmithing to attest how the Dharma saved me from myself!"
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