Bedlam Farm Blog Journal by Jon Katz

Maria never goes into the pasture empty-handed, whether with vegetables, leftover meals, or the many apples that fall to the ground. Asher had learned that being charming pays off. He goes and gets an apple.

Something new: Maria takes a photo here on the farm every morning as she goes out to check on the sheep, clean out the barn, tend to Kim, an old and sometimes sick sheep, and check on everyone. She and I take turns feeding Zip in the barn. She plans to do this almost every morning; she loves these chores.

The photo will be something that touched her or caught her eye.

Zip paid no attention to politics; he is busy enough running our farm and keeping mice and rats away.

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A few thoughts about the election: I don’t want to delve much into the hysteria and hatred we know as electioneering. I think the country is waking up, and some good things will come of it.

I’ve been following candidates I find fascinating (as I feel about New York’s much-loved mayor), and panicked opponents, worried about their money, are savagely attacking them since they seem to have nothing relevant to offer.

I have no crystal ball, but just as I sensed Mayor Mandhami would win while being savagely and sadly attacked, mostly by my fellow Jews, I see that story repeating itself, thanks to the young, in other places.

The future is theirs, and if they don’t take it themselves, no one else will.

Mandhami signaled a coming revolution. He had an amazing energy, mostly from young people weary of greed and viciousness.

In politics, no one ever wins everything, but I can feel the change in the air.

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The same assaults are being made on Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and JamesTalarico in Texas, accused by Republican leaders (and the President of being traitors and terrorists or being gay (is that really a disqualifying crime?) and mentally ill.

There are a lot of amazing women shaking up the haters and the calcified old white men all over the country, especially the Midwest and Florida.

(Dr. Amy Acton of Ohio, running for governor) and Angie Nixon (Florida), running for the U.S. Senate, are both about to shake up the future, if not now, then soon.

Angie, an amazing person,   was arrested for sitting in on the governor’s office, and Amy Acton was the target of perhaps the most vicious attack on a campaigning politician in American History this weekend.

I have no idea who will win the upcoming elections, but my intuition says Talalrico and El-Sayed will squeeze through or win safely. It seems fated to me.

Sadly, our President has led the cruelty himself, and people are noticing this time, because their food is getting too expensive, and the so-called war is a catastrophe now indefensible.

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I am even more certain that these elections are the first wave of a dramatic shift in the awful political crises tearing the country apart. People are awakening everywhere; new movements are being born. Help is on the way. If these people win, the great revolution II is underway.

I think it’s coming: the beginning of the great shift back to humanity, not just greed.

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