There is a list of wise advice for dealing with Trump and his administration being passed around and attributed to Bernice King, one of the daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
It seems like useful advice, if you interpret it to all sides of the current political differences.
Here is my interpretation:
(1) Quit talking about people. Talk about principles.
(2) Remember that conspiracies happen. Then they self-destruct. They are not on your side, whatever your side is.
(3) Arguing does not convince people to join your side. All it does is give the conspiracies power. Seek understanding instead.
(4) Focus on principles first. Personality is a decoy. Policy is for people who can implement policy, and if individual people don't implement policy it doesn't get implemented. Implement your policies and don't wait for the government.
(5) Keep your messages positive. Anger, fear, and darkness give the conspiracies power.
(6) You are not helpless. If you are hopeless, find something worth hoping for.
(7) The arts, artisanry, micro-industry, philosophy, education, and even religion are among the essential small-scale activities that ideologues and conspirators want to throw under the bus. Support those who do the small-scale essentials. Participate, because that's the best support. Shun ideologies that erase the individual search for meaning.
(8) News is news, and is often not news. Check your sources, and don't panic.
(9) Take care of yourself. Listen to your own deepest heart, your own deepest conscience. If you believe in a real God, that's where only the real God can talk to you.
(10) Resist evil, wherever it comes from. Peaceful resistance almost always works better than violent resistance, and violence always puts you at a disadvantage. Start as peaceful as you can, and keep it as peaceful as you can.
[Facebook turned the bullet for number (8) into a shocked smiley, and I wanted to leave it like that because we should always be
ready to be shocked at how brazenly fake our news sources can be. But it registers as a graphic and would become the lead graphic for this post, so I took it out. (8-|) ]
Checking the provenance, here's a URL to her post update, back in early 2017, on FB: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBerniceKing/posts/10158320528270571
The account looks legitimate and I found it via an old Twitter (now X) post that appears to be hers, so I'm pretty sure it is legitimately hers. Her mode of expression indicates she may not want it to be considered original with her, but I would express my gratitude to her for posting it.
Thank you, Ms. King.
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