Well, it seems to me, that mr. Trump has defied all expectations and is actually making a success of trying to find a balanced team to tackle the problems we face.
Yes, there is mr. Bannon, but at the same time there is a mr. Romney. That is trying to reach balance. Well done mr. Trump.
The demonstrations against mr. Trump is also on the waning. That is good as well. We need to understand, that even though we did not like the fact that mr. Trump won, this is still the way democracy works.
At the good side, we now have defused a situation where a lot of Americans felt that they were not heard. Now they are heard, and we can go on with being a democracy.
If mr. Trump succeeds in finding a balanced way of governing. Things may still be good.
So, instead of fighting mr. Trump, let us make sure, that he is given the opportunity to tackle those problems the nation has.
Do it with tough but humane approach, and democracy will have shown its resilience.
G-d bless the democratic state.
Well, we are a bit over a week into the transition period of mr. Trump. The signs are good, mr. Trump seems to have grown politically in the election process, and we might just get something positive out of this, after all.
Let me clear about one thing; I think we should think about ourselves first and foremost. We need to build a better party. Secondly however, the nation is in such a crisis, that we need to examine the need of the nation and not on our own needs only. We need to cooperate, and find a way out of this mess.
One thing that is discussed right now, is the repatriation of all the illegal migrants in the south.
Well, this is really dangerous water to swim in political terms, so I won’t take any sides in this. Just remind people, that this is an issue we need to solve had it been a democratic or a republican president. It is getting out of hand. The crime rate is already too high, and unemployment is getting out of hand.
What can we do? Well first of all, let us just be clear about one thing. Having a border is a natural thing. Not having a border is the unnatural thing. A nation needs a border to control its territory. A border can be many different things. It can be an ideological border, a cultural border, and even in some case a raceborder.
I am not arguing for anything of the above, just pointing out the obvious.
What is the United States of America? It is a Republic. That is, it is a democratic, humanistic, civil construction with certain values and ideological principles to guide it. It is what is, simply written, in the National Anthem, constitution, the words of the founding fathers and so on. “Give me liberty or give me death”, as they said.
What defines a citizen in a Republic? According to Aristotle, one of the main philosophers behind a democratic construct, it is defined by two things. 1. The adherence to the law. 2. The adherence to the democratic process.
In other words, if you hate democracy, and wishes to follow another law than the republican, you are no longer a citizen.
Aristotle continues. If a polis (at the time of Aristotle they had city states not nations) needs new citizens, it should do so with the interest of the polis in mind. Usually it is because the city lacks new citizens.
These are the basic rules of citizen control.
Now there is such a thing as identity, as was the point of the British Brexit discussion. Identity is much broader than the discussion on citizenship, and this can open up for some additional demands for a citizenship. What you put into this box, is very different.
But these are the basic rules you can use in your discussion.
I do, however recommend, that we handle this crisis in a humane way. We are talking about people, and they are not allowed in the country if they break the law (rule number one of Aristotle) but we still need to treat them with dignity.
G-d bless the willingness to do the right thing, in a difficult situation.
Well, now that the election is done, and the soul searching begins. Please let us do one thing, as Alinsky says; we live in a democracy. Violence is not the solution to our frustration. We need to start discussing what went wrong, and how do we make a comeback on a sound basis.
We have made a lot of progress, and we still have mr. Sanders and his movement.
Democracy is good in the way, that it will change the system if there is great resentment, but without violence.
Let us keep it that way.
We lost, because I made a lot of theory some years back, that now comes back and beats me!
That is ironic, imagine being beaten by a former self!
Since I was the one plotting a lot of the theoretical basis that Trump is running on now. Remember I started out as a right wing extremist, I can say, that there is absolutely nothing racist or antisemitic about the basis I made. There are some bad broken eggs in the right wing. There are some nazis, that I despise, but mostly the right wing are comprised of patriotic, justice seeking individuals. They, or that of me that is in that camp, basically tries to find serious solutions that are challenging the countries. This time mainly Islamic State. But it is not a racist basis.
So, if we please calm down and use the energy to look inwards, and be critical to ourselves instead of mr. Trump, that would be good.
It is not the case that I think that we should not be critical to Trump, we should, but not with violence. That is a mark of uncivilized behaviour, and we are still expected to be the epitome of civilization. How are we to strive for democracy, if we do not accept it ourselves?
So please, take it easy. We lost, that is how politics works, we will get on our feet again.
G-d bless the will to accept defeat.
Ok, I believe people, especially people in the mainstream media are scratching their heads right now, asking themselves what the h… is happening.
It is a shift of paradigm as Kuhn defines it. The anomaly of the old paradigm has been prevalent for some time, and it was just a matter of time before it would happen.
Somehow, like an old time Martin Luther, I have a special role as both the one who started all this, and now a kind of friend of the old guard. That is special.
Anyway, old guard or new guard, one thing is important. We need to get our democracy out of this in a way that it will function afterwards. We are fighting for our freedom. If we end up being less free, it is pretty stupid.
The fight against the islamists are pretty well discussed and documented. That will lead Europe, at least, into a new era of enlightenment and peace. But what is happening in the States is different. The problem you guys have are different because the migrants are not muslim, but Mexican.
Anyway, I know this is a fierce fight, but alas, let us not forget that this is for freedom, the shining light at the top of the statue of liberty.
G-d bless the will to be free.
Listen, I know, that there are many people in the liberal camp that is devastated and sorry about the election. Me as well, I put a lot of effort into the election.
But that is how democracy works, and instead of feeling sorry for ourselves. I believe we should start discussing what went wrong. In other words learn from our mistakes.
One thing I believe we got wrong, was the putting up of a candidate that pointed to the past and not the future. I do like ms. Clinton, but hey the 68´hippies are gone. Now it is time for a new generation to take over.
How do we do that? First of all, we listen to the theories of old, and then we make new theories.
The foremost theorist of the liberal constituency, is Alinsky. He told us two things. Most importantly; we are a democracy, so we need to turn that democratic flame on. Secondly, we are a workers party. Now, he was also for minorities, but that is not our problem. We do that. What we do not do are the two first things, mainly democracy and union work. I mean, mr. Trump won all the union workers hands down.
What do we do to correct the situation?
We open our minds to the world. Instead of trying to make the world fit into our frame, we forget about our frame for second and try to understand the world without prejudice.
Allow me to give an example.
When I finished university, (I went to a university very much like Berkely) I travelled the world. I went to Brazil, the States, France, Germany, Italy, Bangladesh. I was a dancer, so I went a lot to Brazil to dance there.
In other words, I lived the normal liberal life, I even lived in a place called Vesterbro in Copenhagen, home to artists and other kinds of bearded hipsters.
Then, when I matured as a philosopher, I started thinking about my own country. At a certain time, I realised, that I did not even know it. I knew the city, but the countryside was unknown territory to me. That kind of struck me as a flaw in my own upbringing. So I decided to get to know it. As Walden I went off the beaten track, and made, friends with some of the most incarnated right wing hillbillies.
You know my friends in the city just did not understand me. They asked me; why on earth do you want to go there in the countryside, they are narrow minded and racist all of them.
Well, on the contrary, I found out, that was not true. In fact, it was the city folks that were narrow-minded and had a lot of prejudice. The country folks live close to the earth, and their perspective was often simple, but much more true.
My friend Anders, the right wing extremist, was an organic farmer, and he had a son with a palestinian woman. He loved his son, but hated islamic ideology. (We worked on Islam critic things together).
He knew a lot about Islam, and he was not prejudiced, but really knew things.
Now, what I am saying is this; it is time we get off the beaten track (Brazil, France, MOMA and cafe latte) and try to truly understand our own country. Or rather you need to get out of your comfort zone of Manhatten, and go out into the mountains and meet people, understand them, get their perspective.
They say that their way of life is dying. Well, that is a cry for help. That is why mr. Trump won, and that is what we need to deal with on a constructive basis.
In Denmark, we have the beautiful tradition of Folkenlightenment. The city folks go out to the countryside, and together we make theories. Like the andelsbevægelse, and the Højskole.
You need to make the same, work together, instead of against each other. Find out theories together, meet, share, be friends.
G-d bless the willingness to learn from our mistakes.
Right now it appears to me to, that what it is all about is shelving power to here and there. Listen, this is a mistake. What it should be about, is meeting the needs of the electorate. They do not care about the inner workings of the machinery. They abhor the inner workings of the machinery.
So you need to start your presidency with actually showing the electorate, that you care about them.
So, perhaps you can begin by travelling to one of those poor areas that voted for you. Listen to what they are saying, and start acting on the business thing.
Wealth is about production. At least, that is the idea of Adam Smith, combined with Ayn Rand. Businessmen are often not appreciated by the society, so they are unhappy with the situation and chose somewhere else to use their money.
You know how these people think. To make an economy run, you need to talk to the business society, and appreciate them. Make them feel, that you are their president. That you will look after their needs. Show people, that you are not that interested in the bureaucracy, but interested in them.
You need to be realistic about the bureaucracy. They are not important. You are important, because a president is much more than an administrator. He is the leader of not only the servants of the state, but all Americans.
Just a tip. Some of my ideas about Adam Smith have taken root in the UK, and ms. Theresa May is doing a lot of work with them. Mr. David Cameron used them as well, to a significant effect. So when you speak to ms. May, you could discuss these things together.
And then, you could discuss wall building with mr. Netanyahu.
You are the leader, but they are good friends and family. Help them, and they will help you.
G-d bless this difficult, difficult transition.
Barrack it is getting late, and the lamps are shutting down. The last days of your presidency are coming to an end. First of all. I just want to thank you for your interest in me. Only you could have done that. You took me in, when no one wanted me anymore. When I was lying on the floor, crying out for help. You listened. You did that, because we were both in serious trouble, and I suppose we needed each other. Thank you friend, and may all the work we have done help just every American and everybody else on this planet.
The bottom line is this; we did our job brilliantly. Nobody questions that. We stood up for all Americans. Hell, sometimes I even feel more American than Danish.
But, we did it. In this time of actually losing the election for ms. Clinton. It may seem a bit difficult to appreciate. Especially with all the chaos around us. But we did not lose the election, ms. Clinton did. People are not putting their backs to what we did, they liked what we did, but they simply did not have the faith in Clinton to truly do the same as what we did. This is not to scorn ms. Clinton, but just point to the fact, that we as a presidency and a philosopher succeeded.
There is just one problem. The situation is getting out of control. The political animosity is rife, and we need to help Donald Trump in his first decisive days. We agree on this. If we can get him up and running, he can pull this through, I hope.
Then there is legacy. Serious Barrack, the best thing you can do for your own legacy, is to provide me with some better means to continue. Right now, I am not in trouble anymore. The secret police have left me alone, finally, and my economic situation is not that bad anymore. Nevertheless, there is one thing that really hampers my reach; I cannot travel.
To help mr. Trump the best way possible. I need to go to Washington from time to time. One thing is to able to call me in case of an emergency, but another thing is to get to know me, and talk to me. People usually need a personal friendship.
If you want to maintain your legacy, you may want to provide me with some kind of way to travel to the US. Setup an account that makes me able to get to and from the US.
Well, let me say it this way. If you want the country to stop from being destroyed from within, make the best possible situation for me. I am your only hope. I do not say this to be selfappreciating, but simply because that is how it is. I am your guardian, and that is a bit of a responsibility. I will however attempt to meet that responsibility. Due to the seriousness of the situation. I just need to be able to give it my very best shot. This is serious. We need to do whatever it takes.
But thank you friend. It has been a tremendous honour to work with you. I know that I have been difficult, but I hope you understand the difficulty of my situation.
G-d bless you and your beautiful family, may you all succeed.
Well, we are really in trouble. Mr. Trump appears to be working on a serious basis of his presidency. One thing, I just really like Mike Pence, he is the one card that truly may swing things around. He is honest, serious and just a good man. He is your best card Donald.
Secondly, the Republic itself is in deep, deep, deep trouble. The reasons are pretty clear; the lack of respect for authority. Here I think mostly about the lack of respect for the law is deeply troubling. Mr. Trump won, hands down. I fought for ms. Clinton. But I have never truly disliked the message of mr. Trump, and Trump himself seems to come around and are willing to work with me, so, in the interest of the Republic, I will be a good partner of his. There is more at stake than just liberal policies. It is the future of our Republic that is at stake.
This is not mr. Trumps fault, he is doing his best, but it is the frustration and conflict within the American constituency that is the problem.
I will give you my best tip. This comes from the best source on Democracy there is. When Athens, the birthplace of Democracy was in trouble, it had this amazing and brilliant thinker. A guy called Isocrates. A democracy in its crisis, as we stand in now was something the Athenians discussed quite a lot. Plato had his views, Aristotle his, and then there was Isocrates. The thing about Isocrates was, that he truly succeeded. His ideas were what led to Alexander the great, and vision of a panhellenic unity was his. He saved Hellas.
Now what did he say about the crisis of Democracy. He said, it is about the law. People do not comply with the law anymore. Plato said that everybody got to free, and was annoying to everybody. Even the animals seemed to get annoying.
This is the one that tool you have to fix things internally. Strengthen the law.
Here you have one good man; mr. Rudy Guiliano. He saved New York, with the proper care, he can dampen feelings in the whole country. Putting up a no nonsense policy towards all who break the law.
This he can do, and only him.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may she prevail in these challenging times.
When you think about the slogan “Make America great again”, you will, after a minute, have to think a little deeper on the slogan that somehow won the election.
Because what does that really mean? It means, that the rural area is not that keen on the current degradation of the Nation. Simple as that. It is hip these days to deconstruct and ridicule our national identity. Not only in the media, but especially in the liberal artistic elite.
For instance, I have a feud going with the local art museum here in Aalborg, because they use our flag as a burka. Not only that, they also put it up as a “white/misogynistic/pigsty sign, using pink (the colour of the skin of the pig) as the color of the flag. That is not cool. At the same time, they adore all that is muslim, to the extent that they have given us the opportunity to see an exhibition by a muslim from Pakistan with a lot of blood, and something about terror. Imagine that.
If that is the vibe of the cultural elite, no wonder people are getting a bit tired of them, who wouldn’t?
Making America great again, or, as in Denmark, making Danes be proud of their country again, is going against this kind of behaviour.
Why on earth are the liberal elites behaving like that? What is it, that really makes them disgrace what is theirs?
There is a long psychological analysis that could be given, but let us just refrain from that, and simply conclude, that the Liberal party that is so obviously unrespectful of our Nations basically deserve the criticism they get.
That does not mean, that all liberals are like that, I am not. Nevertheless, we must acknowledge, that many are.
Making America great again is about reversing this trend, and start taking pride in what it is that we are ourselves. Just because, seriously, it does not make any sense. We have so many things to be proud of. It is truly not the content of our nations that is the problem. The problem is truly all the artist that like defaming our flags.
G-d bless the will to be honest in the face of criticism.
Well, it seems to me, that what has happened in the US is a widespread movement, that not only has its roots in the US, but also here in Europe. It is a reawakening of European/American/Russian conservatism.
Coming from Denmark, being conservative is a bit like being an ugly duckling. At least, that is how I am treated in Denmark, you probably know the story of H.C. Andersen. Reviled, but people is in awe because, in reality I am not a duckling, I am a swan.
However, this is not about me, it is about our future, and the future of our children. How will they fare? How will they even have a future?
This question is only answered. If we truly shed all our prejudice, and try to look at things from anew.
What is happening?
What is happening, is change, true change. In fact, I will start with a capital letter Change.
What did Barack really do to us? Well, I have reflected a bit on that the last few days, after mr. Trump was elected. I mean, look at myself. I am a conservative, a liberal conservative, but a conservative. I believe, in my nation, in fact in all nations. I believe in family. I am a devout religious man, and I am loyal to my friends. I have fought for my country, and risked my life for it.
Yet, I have been best friends with Barack Obama.
Think about that for a second. I mean, Pim Fortyun, the Dutch politician who was one of the first to oppose Islam in the Netherlands together with the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in cold blood for his political stance. That was where i started. I have kept a low profile in all the years that I have been in politics, because I feared for my life. Some of friends were murdered, in the terror attack on the Vilks committee.
Yet, still, I believe that I have been a good friend to mr. Barrack Obama.
If you think about that, it is truly mind boggling. Why would a president of the greatest country on earth be a friend of a radical philosopher from Denmark?
Because mr. Barrack Obama wanted to build bridges. He wanted to be there for black Americans, but he also wanted to be there for white Americans. He was trying to build a bridge.
And I believe we have a shot on success on that bridge building. A lot of the political ideas that I have, that are truly radical conservative are already in place. Like the fight against IS and the rooting for a patriotic American business life. Barrack even went as far as trying to support families in a reach out to local communities.
So, in practise, there is a lot to do for mr. Trump, but there is also a lot he can build on. Everybody agrees on fighting IS everybody agrees on bringing back a patriotic American business life. Everything else in American business is for suckers right? You support your country as a businessman, otherwise you end up a sucker. At least, that is what i have learned here in Denmark. Mærsk still supports Denmark, even though it is highly out of fashion.
In a sense, I believe, that when we get things a bit away, and a bit more in perspective, I believe that we can see, that the Change that Barrack brought us, is what set the stage for a reconciliation.
G-d bless us all, and especially mr. Trump. Dont worry, we will get there, but it will be tough.

Ok, we need to come together and solve these urgent problems on a common ideological basis. Otherwise the partisanship will start, and then the gridlock, and then nothing can work.
First of all, what is really the most pressing problem; migration. In Europe, the same problems as in the US are prevalent. Except for the fact that the migrants are muslims, so there are some extra ideological differences between the Mexican migrates that make trouble in the US, and the muslim that make trouble in Europe. But the basic problem of both US and Europe is the same ones; we do not trumpet our own values, and we are much too lenient when it comes to admission to our countries. The problems especially in Europe, where terror is the direct effect of the happy hippie ideology is obvious to anybody, and everybody basically agree that we have to do something about it.
Mr. Trump won, ok? Because he had the balls to address the problems. We need to acknowledge that, and act, also us from the liberal camp to try to find solutions.
He wishes to build his wall, ok he can do that, if he does it in a civilised way, and with an eye to the values that we ALL stand for. That is the Republican values. Democracy, freedom of speech, humanism, the rule of law and freedom.
Making America great again is about identity politics. That is, enforcing the values of the Republic, and make shure everybody speaks English.
There are a few, who wish the US would be hispanic. That is a fault. The US is a Republic, and I believe, that you just have to accept that, or go back to Mexico.
We are required to push a Republican ideology not only in schools, but everywhere; in public offices, in law enforcement, in culture, in sports the valiant troops of democracy should walk again. This time not to bring Democracy to foreign countries, but the citizens of the United States of America. The revolution must start one time again. If you do not accept this revolution, well, then you are not American, and you are not a citizen.
My point is; we need to gather around a common ideology to tackle the migration problem in the US. Something we share, that will make us work together.
We have to realistic about this, we need to be, as mr. Netanyahu; tough. There are a lot of places in the south where Republicans and Mexicans are not in agreement. We should enforce the Republican point of view.
If we find that common ground, then I believe we should allow mr. Trump build that wall. He needs to deliver on his promises, and that is his first and foremost.
G-d bless the United States of American boldness.
Well, I have just seen the victory speech of mr. Trump. Let me clear about this, we need healing. I absolutely agree. We need to come together, work together, and get things done.
I admit, that I have supported ms. Clinton most of the time, and I am really sorry, that you did not succeed. We all fought a lot to get you elected, but we live in a democracy, that is how it works.
Together with Obama, I have laid a great many of the strategic lines of the last six years, so mr. Trump inherits some fights, and some good things as well. Like an economy that is thriving, despite a fierce and unfair competition from China. A fight against Islamic State that is moving into Europe, and a relationship to mr. Putin.
I have been quite clear about my belief in the relationship to mr. Putin, I like him, and I believe he is a good guy. I truly hope you two will get along. Maybe it will really lead to peace, and there is no doubt, with the rising problems with China. That would be good.
Anyway, let us all give mr. Trump the benefit of the doubt, and help him as much as we can. It is more than our own feelings of defeat that is at stake, it is truly the will of the people, and the demise of Western power.
In fact, I agree with mr. Trump on most issues, I just hope we can get along, and find solutions that will keep the system working as a true Republic, because that is my responsibility, as a guardian of Democracy, to see it through, and keep it working.
G-d bless you all, and I am sorry Hillary, you fought good, but things were just not flowing your way.
Well no one saw that coming. Everybody from the elite was backing Hillary Clinton, and yet she was defeated.
First of all, congratulations mr. Trump. I hope everything will shape up all right, but I do fear what is about to happen.
From Denmark, most of my friends actually supported you, but I did not, because I believe it will weaken the system itself.
However, after all, a vote is a vote, and I hope that it will end up positively.
What happened really? It was a vote for independence of viking voters. We are sick and tired of all the “tolerance” speaks, and wish to empower dominance.
The vikings have been used to rule the world for thousands of years, and are not willing to concede just because the elite think it is a good idea.
That is the bottom line. This also, effectively, means, that multiculturalism is over. The viking part, who still is most populous in many areas of the world has voted no.
How will this have an impact? Well if you see it as a “white” push back to African Americans, Muslims in general and so on. New fronts will open up. That is war.
Mr. Trump may not be the one to wield the instruments of war, but the voters want it done, so if not Trump will do it, they will find someone else. The drums of war are sounding.
This is, in a sense, good news for Europe, because we are facing the same threats, just a little more prescient. The migration into Europe, is now out of control, and the vikings are at a warpath.
War is terrible, but it is also just how human nature works.
Odin, war father is at play.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may we win some kind of peace at the end of this major war we are entering.
There is just one day to the election, and that is close. We are finishing an election that is extremely dangerous not only the US, but for the entire world. If US falls as a beacon for Democracy and human rights, the lid has fallen off, and a lot of very nasty ideologies will pop up. Not only in the US, but everywhere in the world. Leading by example has one good thing in it; it is free. Leading by force is costly in all areas imaginable.
Therefor, we need to realise one thing. Whoever wins the election needs to address the charges the rebellic electorate is posing. Not only what they are saying, but also the deeper structures of the problems, which is really where the problems start in the beginning.
What is the problem? The problem is a distance between the needs of the people and the leaders. We, often end up in our own little ivory tower, and the theories we make are not really connected to the challenges people feel.
An example; we carry on discussing the gender inequality, while people can’t make a living. I mean, what is really important, that you can eat, or you have equality between the genders?
The first is important. It is a bit like Marie Antionette saying; why don’t they eat cakes when they can’t eat bread?
Therefor what we need to do, after the election, is start listening. Not just a little, but truly listen to what the electorate, and then find solutions that meet their demands. We need to meet them with a clean slate. Shed all the discussions we know, and try and understand what they are saying. We should stop putting their claims into prejudiced casts, and just find a solution to their trouble, based on a sound democratic/humanistic base.
Otherwise we end up in a revolution, and after the revolution they will say; they asked us to eat cakes when we had no bread.
G-d bless the Democratic Constitution of the United States of America.
Now my good friend mr. Barrack Obama is right on one point. This election is truly a test of American Democracy. Will it fall? It might just fall, if mr. Trump is elected and he really does all the things he threatens to do. Here I am not talking about the wall and so on, but on all the things he will do with the system itself.
It is, I am sorry Donald, I know you do not see it that way, but you are a reflection of the problems American democracy is in. But it is a problem, that the electorate is so desperate it will elect a man that threatens to tear the whole thing down.
This is why I think it is of vital importance that we in the Democratic camp really understand what the rebel voices are saying, and meet them halfway, get over the crisis that the American democracy is in.
We can only do it, if we solve some of the problems they are facing. Like unemployment, national self-assurance, migration and so on.
We should be quite clear about the challenges we meet. If we do not meet the desperate Republican voters halfway, they will tear the entire union apart. It is like that.
So, this is really one of those desperate times, but fortunately, we know what is at stake, and we can do a turn around. Be proud of what American Democracy is, and be humane.
We can do it, it is one of those trying times, but if we are able to get over this crisis, the foundation will be that much stronger.
We need to hear what they are saying, and meet them halfway, after the election.
G-d bless the American Democratic Constitution.
Now, Hillary, you need to get out of your comfort zone and fight for something you believe in. That is really what is missing in this election; you!
We need to see you shedding those teacher glasses and start fighting for something you really believe in, NOW!
I understand, that this is a audacious demand, but we need you to step up, shed all your thinking, and just fight.
Fight for what you believe in, what you see as important.
One thing that I would recommend, is the fight against IS.
We got a hit by FBI, they may have done intentionally, maybe not. But they did it. What they did, was sowing doubt on our ability to fight the islamist. By pointing to Huma Abedin.
We need to turn that around, and tell everybody, that this is a fight between an evil empire, against our democratic ways.
This is a fight between good and evil, and we will prevail.
You need to step that message up, to counter the hit we got from the FBI.
Please Hillary, there is so little time left, and we need to make an impression. It is yours to make.
G-d bless you, and may you find the will to fight for what you believe in.
What is it really to be honest? I have a lot of flaws, but I truly believe, that dishonesty is not one of them. After the Mohammad Cartoon crisis, where freedom of speech was discussed, we did really in Denmark discuss honesty a lot. Because honesty is the basis for freedom of speech.
It works like this; to hide something, you use lies. But if you have nothing to hide, you do not need lies.
So people judge you by your candour. If you are honest, you have less to hide.
Nobody likes anybody who lies, but they will almost always forgive a truthsayer. Off cause, there are somethings that are too bad to be forgiven for. But mostly the dishonesty you have, is human nature.
But it is a very good thing to always try to be honest, because it pushes you to be at better person.
When you do something, that other people find dishonest, you, most of the time, have a good reason. So if someone criticises you, be honest about your reasons to do as you did.
Then you can actually discuss the moral content of your actions. Some find it right, others dislike it.
Nobody is perfect however, we are all sinners to some degree. But most of us try to make something better out of what have of life.
So, to be really honest, you have to be strong and face the criticism of other people. But the funny thing is often, that if you are honest, people usually forgive you for your mistakes, because they know that you have faced what you have done wrong, and will try to be better at another time.
Not being honest, is much worse, because then people start digging in the problems you have, and seek for mistakes.
G-d bless the will and ability to be honest.
Ok, there is one week to go. This is devastating in some areas, and pretty cool in other. I do believe, that both candidates have had their share of scandal, and nobody can say that it is rigged. Mr. Trump got his fair share, and ms. Clinton got hers.
So, we are even.
What I do believe is important, is that what we need to do, is to come clean. We have to be honest in this election, and in general.
I know that the easiest thing to be done is to cheat, but, you know, in politics cheating is like peeing in your pants. It warms at the moment, but after some time it gets colder.
Nevertheless, still, things are not as bad as they seem.
On a political level, actually both candidates are pretty much in agreement on what is important; beating IS, working with the economy.
But there are of cause things that are different, mainly in what parts of the constituency are important, of cause.
I believe, we have had a dirty campaign, but I do not believe it is as dirty as some think. I still believe both candidates have brought a lot to the table, and we will see what will be the outcome after the election.
One thing is sure however, we need to reach out after the election, whoever wins, we need a Netanyahu like capacity for someone who understand both right and left. I think that is really where the good course lies.
G-d bless the United States of America.
The case that the FBI is throwing against ms. Hillary Clinton involves ms. Huma Abedin. Who is she? She is, obviously a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, since she is family with some of the top dogs of that organisation, and she is an agent.
How do I conclude this? Because I have been living, as many other people who are influential, with agents close to my life for many, many years, so I have a lot of experience with this.
It works like this; a person, that reflects your own interests and person shows up, and is willing to do almost anything to please you. He or she will become your friend, and help you beyond what is natural. You are not required to care much about your own actions towards this person. They are always there.
The problem is, it is fake. She or he does not exist because they like you, but to influence you in some way. One of my other friends had an agent in his life. This agent kept taking him to pubs to make him drink more and more. Basically he was not my friends friend, but used his friendship to wear my friend down.
Abedin seems to be the same, she goes to lengths normally not attributed to a muslim woman, like marrying Anthony Weiner, even though he is not a paragon of virtue.
The deeper story of this, is, of course, that she represents the Muslim Brotherhood. On this issue Barack and I have disagreed to some degree. Originally he supported Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, and, I supported Al-Sisi. I supported Al-Sisi, because the Muslim Brotherhood is a problematic organization spreading islamism around the globe.
After the Egyptian revolution, the Sunnis have worked themselves closer to Israel, and agree on not liking IS. Especially Egypt. So we have made more unity amongst our allies in the Middle East. Even Turkey now agrees on this.
As time has gone by, the Muslim Brotherhood has lost its sway, and is mostly now confined to London, where is lives a poor life. That is, it is no longer a major player.
This is reflected in the tragedy of ms. Abedin, that was divorced to Weiner. (Who wouldn’t)
So the value of Abedin as an ally, is naught. She is not a friend, she is, most probably, just an agent of a small organisation.
The problem is. She is a symbol of corruption. FBI are scared about this, and so they act. They do not act with an all embracing fanfare, but they are putting up a flag.
So, instead of attacking FBI, they are basically just doing their job, we should acknowledge their flagging, and just put up some barriers between Abedin and the inner circle of the friends of Clinton.
Good luck, but you need to act fast, we are losing steam on this issue, at at critical point of our contest drive.
G-d bless the will to get honest about our problems.
Ok let us be cool about the FBI accusations. Let us have a sound and serious look upon the problem. First of all; no ACTUAL accusation has been forwarded, just some airy negative comments. That is all.
The true problem is not the accusations, it is the target of the accusations; Huma Abedin and her former husband Weiner. Bad apples both of them. Weiner because he is VERY negative in his ways with women; Trump like actually. Abedin because everybody knows that she is a meme of the Muslim Brotherhood.
These two persons are not sufficiently ethically based to be a part of the Democratic presidential run.
Why? Because we have run on an ethical basis against Trump. We fight for womens rights, and against the Islamic State.
This leaves no room for a child adulterer as Weiner, and a Muslim Brotherhood agent as Abedin.
So, if we defend ourselves, we, at the same time, defend some undefendable individuals.
We need to let them go, and the fuss will all be over. And it needs to be done fast, because we are very close to the election day.
We are also required to learn from it. There is no room for failure in our government. We have to do as we say. We simply cannot attack Trump for a sexually denigrating perspective and then, at the same time, defend people who do the same in our own camp.
I am sorry, but as the election has developed, it has, for good and worse, been more and more ethical.
We need to realise this and evolve ourselves.
G-d bless the willingness to understand our own mistakes, and be sorry when we do them.
Ok, I must write about something else than the American election. It is off cause of a vital importance, but there are other things as well.
Like the discussion on G-d. I am reading about the great physician Niels Bohr, another Dane. He was one of those few people who were pushing human knowledge on.
I have been discussing the relationship between spirit and physics, arguing, that G-d is as Anaxagoras says; a natural power that is in between matter, in the ether, so to say. Birth is the gateway between this dimension of the ether, and the material world.
This discussion is, in its essence spiritual and physical, that is metaphysical. “Besides the physical” as it is what “meta” means.
I believe that the teological community has done a great disservice in not following the physical discussion. Because the physicians actually disagree in these matters. Some believe, that there is a G-d, like Planck, who realised that energy has a smallest unit, thereby naming the “Planck”s constant.
Instead of trying to fight the physical community, we should just be a part of the discussion. I had an angle on the world famous Niels Bohr institute some years ago, where I met a leading physician there, but due to all the chaos in my life, all the persecution and so on, I could not follow up on this lead. I hope to continue this line of my thought. Because if I can contribute with a scientifically respected line of thought that actually uses the idea of G-d as a proven and well understood idea, we could, potentially be back in the metaphysical community.
That is why, I ask you, all of you who are interested in these ideas, to show support, and help me in my quest. Give me some help, and maybe, I can do this.
G-d bless the will to fight for G-d.
It seems to me, that ms. Clinton is in the lead. Still, we are not here yet, but the signs are good. Anyway, if we win, I think we should discuss, already now, what we should do to foreign policy matters.
First of all, I believe, that the American people are not ready for another full scale war, and if they are, it will not be with the Russians, it will be with the Islamists.
Why? Because the Islamists with their continous terror attacks, not only on American soil, but everywhere in the world, is what is felt as the greatest threat. Some geopolitical analysts will point to the fact that China has a much larger potential for agression, but they have not done anything on American soil yet. The Islamists have, and that is a lot.
There is also a special bonding and history between Europe and the US. Most of American culture comes from Europe, and there is still a very close relationship between the US and Europe, especially Northern Europe. You are our friends and family. That is how we see it.
So when islamists attack France, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, it is felt as an attack on a family member. It IS an attack on a family member.
As the Syrian war is settled, and IS looses its territory, they are going to swarm Europe. At least, that is what they are threatening, and they usually do as they say. We have som calm right now, because they are tied up in Mosul. But after they lose that piece of land, they are free to spread their terror everywhere, especially in Europe. They are not dumb, and they carry the torch of a religious war. So they are hard to turn around.
Anyway, as the confrontation picks up speed in Europe, there will be an increased voice for American intervention in Europe. This is not the first time Americans have been on the shores of Europe, fighting for liberty, and it will, probably, not be the last.
This however, will be a fight with the full consent of the people.
The bad thing is, off cause, that all wars are terrible. Wars should be avoided at all costs, but should be fought vigoursly, if there is nothing else to do.
The good thing about it, is the strategic implications. We are not stirring up another cold war, or getting enemies all around the world. Everybody agrees on taking on the islamists, even sunni muslims, the closest possible allies IS has. So, it will harden the international community around a strategy lead by the US.
G-d bless the US in its wise decisions towards war and peace.
I believe, that, at the end of the day, it is about one thing; passion. What is passion really? Passion is about believing in an idea so much, that you fight for it with a lot of energy.
Thing is, to be passionate about an idea, the idea you fight for, should be a good idea. Otherwise it is a little difficult to believe in it.
There are many good ideas, and then there are many bad ideas. But one thing is for certain. If you want people to fight for a good idea, you need to present them with an idea that is well proven and you know will work. That is why we like the classics, because in the classics we find proven ideas.
In the French revolution we fought a lot for some classical ideas; freedom of speech, justice of the law, enlightenment, human rights, democracy. The thing about these ideas are, that they work. They are time proven, quality ideas worth fighting for, worth the basis of a revolution.
Now I have come up with some ideas, some of them new, some of the classical, but all in a new clothing.
I promise you, that these ideas are, most of them well proven. And those ideas that are not well proven, are already working. Like the idea of focusing on production to boost the economy. It works.
At the end of the day, it is about faith. Faith in those basic ideas of our society that we treasure and love. Faith in the building blocks of society. Faith in the ideas.
Please hold this into your heart; it works. That shining city at the top of hill, is real. Those humanistic, enligthenment ideas, they are real, and they work. The American dream is still a dream attainable. The ideas are sound, all you need, is faith.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It is getting tighter, the television appearances are over, and it is down to the groundwork to work their magic.
This is why, we have to; organise, organise, organise. Work, from day to night, from night to day, work, work, work.
There should be no respite, no taking it easy, we need to do the job!
One thing I believe is pretty positive about this election is the fact that we have seemed to come together. The different arms of the party, and I believe, we should try and keep it that way. Let us build on what we have, and make it even stronger.
Mr. Sanders and the young, ms. Obama and the women, mr. Kerry and the hippies, mr. Biden and the workers, ms. Clinton and the just … well, normal people, right?
Let us come together in a vision of a more equal and free America, and vision where the lame will walk, the poor will not be abandoned and the rich will be satisfied but not handed all the power.
We can do that, and we will, so FORWARD! Let us do that revolution, lead all of us!
G-d bless the United States of America.
We are nearing the end of the election cycles. It seems to be an easy win. But until the end of the election cycle, it is still just a PROBABLE win. We have not won until election day.
When we fought with Barack Obama the last election, it seemed much closer, and yet we won. But in a sense that was good, because then we were fighting to the very end.
Let us learn from that, birds on the roof are not birds in the hand.
LET US FIGHT!
All OF US!
G-d bless the will to fight to the very end.
So, there are only three weeks before election day, and it seems a pretty easy win.
Let us have a look on why. First of all, because we did have a good support from the Liberal wing, this includes all the traditional supporters, a great part of the academia, a great part of the civil rights organizations, a great part of grassroots supporters.
Secondly, it was because mr. Trump had no idea about campaigning. He is good on television, but all the intricacies of voter segmentation, going across the aisle, being strategic, was not really a part of his strategy. As the skeletons started emerging out of the cupboard, he did not have the nerve or the cool to meet it with ease, but started ranting.
I am sorry, I never really disliked Trump all the way, but that is just not a thing to do if you want to be the leader of the free world. You need coolness and strength in your manners.
On the other side, ms. Clinton has really developed herself under the election, and seems to be moving with the tides. She has a new stance on the free market deals, I do believe that free markets are ok, but this was really not the idea of Bernie, so I understand the move, even though I hope it will not ruin our economy too much. And then she started getting back to her roots, I think that is really the most beautiful part of her development. She started thinking about that rural America, where people struggle to get going. That rapport is really what will win her the election. Because this is where the swing voters are. The ancient blue collar Democrats, who are scared by globalization, but still hold on to a worker identity. These voters are the key voters in this election.
Now these people are, at least a lot of them, REALLY angry on how things are progressing, and instead of alienating them. We should try and understand them, and help them. As in Detroit.
Globalization seems to be over, and people are hunkering down in the states they understand and makes sense to them, and we cannot change that. What we can do, is to try and ease that development, so that it does not end in a huge crash. Because they are truly angry, and we need to meet them in order to alleviate some of that pain, be it a right pain or a wrong pain.
We need to stop vilifying them, and start understanding their difficult situation.
G-d bless United States of America
When we get older, we start to forget about the initiation of our lives, we seem to forget what it was all about. I have grown up a poor boy, the first many years of my existence were, honestly, terrible. It gave me a lot of scars and a lot of experience about the bottom of society. But I have, singlehandedly fought my way out of the misery, and as of now, I do actually feel pretty ok. I have a little family, I have a beautiful wife, a place to stay, a job that is not too terrible, and an ongoing artistic career that a care a lot about. But I still worry about the secret police, will they try another blow, what will they do now, and so on.
Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, had this way of theorizing. He looked at his own life, and used his own experiences as a guiding light. This is much better than sitting somewhere in an ivory tower and theorizing about things that you know nothing about. It makes me a strange bird in the world of academics, but hey, even the academic life needs outsiders to give them new roads to travel down at. And to me, the greatest philosophers lived their own ideas out.
But what if you get too far away from that dark place you started out from, that river of misery, that train of broken dreams, because you actually get out of the trailer park. What then, how can you do something for those still in it. How can you actually contribute all Americans, Danes, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans and so on. You can do it with the Bruce Springsteen method.
I like Bruce Springsteen, and actually, I have thought about where he might have gone in this election cycle, he used to be out there on the trail together with the Democratic contender. Where is he.
Anyway, I will tell you about his method, that I once read about. Now, when he is worldfamous, and miles away from the dump he started out from, he has, sometimes, problems with what to write songs about. But then he goes into himself, and he starts remembering that dark place why he came from, and songs starts coming again. That river of misery.
Now, I know that mr. Trump has made an idiot out of himself, you cannot blame the media for pulling out stories of mistreating women. You should not mistreat women, period. But he had some of that Springsteen blues in him. He did go out and understood the misery of not getting a job, loosing your dreams and seeing everything fall apart around you. He has that blues, and that we can learn from him. Because, yes, he is a bad messenger, but his message is true.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may it rise to shine again.
Ok, it really, really shocks me to hear about all the accusations of rapist behaviour of mr. Trump. They truly seem to be true, and that is the end of that presidential campaign. You simply cannot beat that. Whatever ms. Clinton could have done or not, nothing beats that.
To go into a presidential campaign with that as a possible newsbreak is truly suicidal. The worst scandal in the story of the United States of America.
There is not much to say, other than he did say somethings that were right; like the problems at the border, the problems at the bottom of the industrial rungs.
But that does not excuse this behaviour. As ms. Obama, I am speechless. I thought it was just a hoax, stupid me.
G-d bless the dignity of the United States of America.
There are a lot of signs, that points to the imminent arrival of the Messiah, peace is slowly descending on the Middle East, Israel is thriving, and it seems to me, that there actually is a viable chance that the house of David will indeed be reinstated in the state of Israel.
If we look at the last constitution, that is the constitution of David and Solomon, compared to the constitution we have now, that is a Socialdemocratic, non religious constitution, how would they compare.I mean apart from the fulfilling of the prophesy, there is also a practical organization that has to be done in order for the new king to be a part of the political process.
In practice, how will the Knesset react to having a king all of a sudden.
If we look at other examples, we can see, there are a few to compare to, Denmark, the US, the U.K.
In the US, the president holds the position of the king in a normal monarchy. In Europe, the kings are still hereditary. That is, a single family has been on the throne for a long time, the role of King, or Queen, given from father to son or daughter.
What really is noticeable, is the dignity of the role. A king or queen, is an extremely dignified person, and has a role of loftiness.
The Queen in Denmark rarely talks about much, but when she does, it is with an extreme dignity. She is straight backed, honest, but she still respects the parliament and its decisions.
The current organization of the country, that being a de facto substate under the EU commission, is not her cup of tee, but she refrains from commenting on it, focusing on the wellbeing of the realm.
This role is truly what a new king should fulfill. That of giving dignity to Israel. I believe that mr. Shimon Peres really had a element of this in his ways. He was so dignified, so his example is something we should look onto, to look for a true king.
It should be one that understands the balance between parliament and the signification of the royal institution.
If it actually is realized, it would be an extremely powerful position, giving peace all around the world. It would make the world a better place, and ensure, that we would live in an era of progress.
G-d bless Israel.
Well, it seems to me, that the election is, more or less decided in the favour of ms. Clinton. Ok, there is still some time, and it seems to me, that mr. Trump has invigorated his fanbase. That in itself is really impressive. It would have been difficult to even have a campaign if that had not been the case.
But, listen. This is a very strange election, usually the debates are the high points, but with all the media coverage of the character assassination attempts, the debates seem to matter less and less.
Anyway, as a Dane, to me, I would be happy to work with both persons. You know, I support Hillary, as a true supporter of mr. Barack Obama. But the differences between the two contestants in terms of content, is actually not that wide. Both support a non-racist stance, both are for civil rights, both are against Isis, but not against all Muslims. Mr. Trump even apologised to the muslim hero he had antagonised.
There are differences in the small things. Especially in the stance on second amendment, migration and the relationship to Russia. But all in all, the differences are truly not that wide.
When it comes to leading the country, I do support Hillary, I think, honestly, that she would do the best job. But, I do not worry that mr. Trump would ruin everything. I think he has grown through the election.
So, all in all, i think, for America, things are shaping up. For Hillary and Donald, we will see. But my bet is on Hillary.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It is one day from the most devastating, potentially, turn of events in the world. The second debate in the American election.
As a rare treat in the world of philosophical development, I have had, and has the honor, to participate in that debate.
While as I have been a part of the renewal of politics in the sense of finding the roots of politics. Trying to find the core of what politics really is. This contest is carried by all of what it not is, mud slinging, accusations, debate on moral character rather than political content.
I do believe, that what we need is not a mud fest, but a new direction.
But it seems to me, that that hope is in vain. We have the parties and contestants we have, and they are both flawed to some degree.
But that should not keep us from looking at the world from a sound perspective, and discuss what is not good for us, but how civil service, will be just that, to serve the public.
One true advise I can give ms. Clinton, is a thing she may have overlooked, but then again with the level of preparedness maybe not.
Trump is going to hammer on the alleged infidelity of mr. Clinton. This is just …, but that is an angle. Don’t worry too much about that, he is not exactly the model of good behavior himself, as we have recently come to know.
But there is another flaw or weakness of ms. Clinton, that talks to his strengths in the political discussion, open borders.
That is the opposite of what he is proposing, that is closed borders, and he has the electorate behind him in this area.
So some kind of modern approach to that issue is extremely important. Open borders is true poison for the Clinton campaign. I would recommend a sound and normal understanding of borders. That is, that it encroaches a given territory with a given political system. So that those in the system are, in our case, democratic, and outside, they have other systems.
I know that this goes against the dreams of many people, but this is exactly what scores and scores of voters are against, both in Europe and in the US. If we do not leave that political stance, we end up with a lot of neo nazism, KKK and whatever they are called, and that is simply not a price worth paying.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Well, it was an ok debate yesterday, it was not the prettiest, but it will work.
When we look at the connection to budding Democrats, that tries to learn us about what it is to be young, there is one point we have not truly realized yet, but we need; the fight with Islamic state.
We have ourselves moved quite a bit these late years. Let me give you my own explanation and historical brief.
It happened in the last intifada. Here mr. Netanyahu made a pivotal decision in the middle of the fight. It was all about going in and start truly unleashing the might of the IDF against the budding Palestinian state. In the final ours of that quest, I asked mr. Netanyahu to hold his horses and wait for the world to realize what was happening in Iraq under the guise of the other war. The IS was on the move, taking area after area, finally building the Caliphate.
The world watched in horror and expectation on the unleashing, but it did not come. As a result, Israel is today still in one piece, and the economic and worldwide backlash a pummeling of Hamas would have given Israel was held back. On the contrary the fight was seen as kind of “even” in the eyes of the international audience. Actually a tremendous victory for Israel in itself. Israel reaped the fruits of that victory by the alliance with the Arab world. Quite a feat.
Anyway, let us have a look at “Islamic State” and what it has given us. It has given us a world of pain to all who do not agree to their view. They go after the gays, the minorities, the weak. They rape and pillage. Lately there has been a string of attacks on American soil. Things that are anti Liberal in its very essence.
What they are aiming at is a vast, G-d driven state, where the imams are ruling everything from how to pick your nose to how you take a s… (Sorry) to how to patronize women.
This is what we are truly fighting, a regime that puts Fox network and Breibart as a willy nilly, pink sambadancers.
They are the true tyrants we are facing. Yes there is Wall Street, but these guys beat them by far. Because they defy all that is humane, democratic and just.
G-d bless the will to win.
Things are starting to shape up for us. Mr. Trump seems to have lost his connection to the real world, and we are working on the positive and true image of our campaign. Well done campaigners. And especially well done ms. Clinton, you passed the test with flying colours.
What has really happened?
Well, we are in the middle of another revolution. Mr. Sanders keep telling us this, and maybe he is right?
What is this revolution he keeps talking about, and our young are so idealistic about?
I have thought about it, and there is one thing, that made me realise what it really is; the fact that we have not talked about communism for a long, we have, however talked a lot about another thing that is, or was, also revolutionary in its time; Democracy.
Mr. Sanders, and mr. Obama er truly not communist revolutionaries, they are democratic revolutionaries, and that is a huge difference.
We are not fighting for communism, no we are fighting for the values of the First French revolution. Human rights, enlightenment, the freedom of speech and law.
This is what is the true core of what we are witnessing. And that is bearing the torch to at new generation.
While communism did not stand the test of real life, democracy did. We are in the middle of another of those revolutions. In France they are talking about the sixth republic, we should be talking about democracy 2.0.
Another round of the good, rationalistic, freedom loving men and women, fighting tyranny.
There are a lot of people who despise politics. It is because we have forgotten the virtues of a democratic republic. Forgotten the honesty and enlightenment it craves. We should be thankful that our young daughters and sons reminds us of these values yet again. Because otherwise the system just stops working.
This is why we are winning, we are truly fueled by the revolutionary spirit of the Napoleonic Cisalpine republic.
The right and privilege to be free and the willingness to sacrifice ourselves for that.
G-d bless the United States of America.
When we live up to the expectations of what we are as Jews. There are no closed doors anywhere. When we do not, we are vilified and hated.
That is the way it is. The choosing of us as a people, is not just a blessing, it is, as much, a curse.
We have to be perfect, in almost any possible way, and then they put us on a pedestal.
I think this is why the life and work of mr. Peres is such a telling tale. Everybody hated him for the Oslo accords. But I mean, at least he tried, right. I would not have done it, because there were too many unknowns, and too many players, that did not want the peace. But, he tried, and he won the respect of the world, but the despect of Jews.
I think we have looked on it in a wrong way. What he tried to do, was not make peace, it was the SYMBOLIC act that mattered to him.
He must have known that it could not be done, because the cards were as they were. But he still tried, and doing such a symbolic act, he actually carved out a name for himself, and showed the world, that there is a will for peace.
He was the false Messiah, and for that he was hated and still loved.
When will the true Messiah come, that is the question we all put to ourselves. The king that will truly give meaning to Israel, and realise the existence of Israel. Because, at the end of the day, Israel can only be built by the Messiah.
I know that perhaps I am the Messiah, perhaps it is Barack. To me, that will only be proven, if there is peace.
Until that, we will have to see. But I believe, we should see mr. Peres life as an example on someone who could have been the Messiah, but never really made the last step.
But he showed us a way. That is his true legacy. He showed us, that there are Jews, of a high ranking, that will try peace.
With that, he won the praise of the world, and paved the way for peace. Because he made an example.
In this light, I believe we should see his sacrifice. Because he knew he would have to pay, and he did it anyway. For Israel.
G-d bless mr. Shimon Peres, may he rest in peace.
Ok, there is a bit of momentum right now. Let us use that, put in a few jabs and blows, put him on the defensive.
First of all, we need to understand what truly gave is a lead in the debate. It was not due to good looks or extravagant use of ideas. It was because we gave as we got.
That is the key, and that is truly the difficult thing in this contest. We put mr. Trump on the defensive, and he could not get out of that corner.
That is how we win, be we should be realistic, we caught him on the wrong foot. He was unprepared, he did not see it coming, and he had lulled himself into a belief, that a milder tone would win him the election. In short, he underestimated ms. Clinton.
That will not happen again. We need to put up our defences, and start that gruelling fight with mr. Trump. We should not be overconfident, because one victory will not win us the battle.
So we need to shed the calculator, and start the grim fight. Ok, not too much, not absolutely, but with honour and initiative.
Take the jab mr. Trump does with the discussion on the infidelity of mr. Bill Clinton. This is absolutely grim.
We should be the same. Ask him why he did not deliver his tax papers, is he hiding something.
And then be honest with our defence.
That part of the marriage of the Clintons is totally problematic, but it is a long time ago, and we have found a solution.
Let us go on talking about the things that matter, should we?
Something that matters NOW, like why mr. Trump does not show his tax papers.
It is dirty, but we need to realise, that, to some level, we need to meet mr. Trump in the dirty gutter, otherwise he will just bully himself to the presidency.
G-d bless mr. Trump and ms. Clinton, may it be a relatively fair fight.
It is a bit difficult to be a rebel in ones own country, and then a middle leaning intellectual in international politics.
It gets a little schizophrenic from time to time.
In Denmark I am waiting for a book by the late spy chief Scharff, who did persecute me, and tortured my little daughter. Perhaps his new book will shed some light on the controversies we have had, but I really doubt it.
Internationally I helping ms. Hillary Clinton, and I am working for peace in the Middle East. That is not exactly a rebel standpoint.
But in a sense, I believe that some of the purity of rebelliousness gets to be a part of the mainstream. That is actually good, because all leaders used to be rebels at a given point. That is, we did start out ,to try and change the world to a better place.
But in practise this arrangement is very difficult.
Ok, stop the whining. I am just trying to explain why I have not been more focused on the American election. It just so happened, that my good friend Uwe got attacked by a museum employee, making a work of art.
This was pretty big in the news, and Uwe have a lot of trouble. So I do, as I always try, supported him in his troubled times.
It may seem like a small thing in politics, but he is my friend, and I should be there for him in his trouble.
But, I WILL stay on course internationally. Barack is right in his point, that we need to win with Hillary to continue our work.
G-d bless the United States of America.
It is really difficult when kindred spirits pass away. I have a hard time saying goodbye to someone that I respect so much.
Mr. Shimon Peres passed away yesterday, may he rest in peace.
For me, a relative newcomer to Israeli politics, I feel a bit humbled by the things that mr. Peres took from me. But at the other hand, I can see that we shared a lot of things; the striving for peace, and at the same time the will to keep Israel safe.
This is what Israel is supposed to be; a project of peace. And only when we obtain peace, will the spiritual task of Israel be achieved.
In a way, that task is so daunting, that you have to use all your energy to really achieve it. You have to be focused all the time, be vigilant.
But if you are, you can move things along.
With true tears, I mourn mr. Peres, he was much more than the founding father of Israel. He was Israel, and let us hope, that we can live up to his expectations.
G-d bless the memory of mr. Peres.
To be spiritual, I believe the essence is about being a good person.
The ethical discussion must therefor be at the heart of any person that believes himself to be a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew.
It is like that, right?
But the problem about being a moral person is the fact that the right choice is often very difficult to make. What some believe to be the right choice, others do not.
Take my discussion on Islamic State. In the beginning, this was a thing of taboo. People really thought that I was a bad person. But it came out to be a true, right. Look at what they are doing.
You can look at it from many perspectives; psychology, metaphysics, social sciences. Some people believe we have a innate moral compass, others believe in enlightening the world. But at the end of the day, the truth of the matter is, that being good is one of the most difficult things to be.
One of the things I often see people doing that is a mistake, is many peoples tendency to take the easy road. To do what everybody else do, to blend in. This is the best choice if you want to be socially accepted. But it leaves all the moral consensus to the leader of the group. If he or she is a bad person, the entire commune he is leader of, will be bad as well.
Power corrupts, and a lot of power corrupts a lot. So if you are in an organization with a powerful leader, there is a chance he or she will be corrupted.
It is here the task of the servant of G-d, always to ask himself; what is the moral answer in this case.
Evil is often disguised as good, that is my experience. In fact, the bad people often parade their goodness. Tries to obtain a veneer of being the right and moral person. They cloak themselves in the cloak of goodness. You know the person that always has to be the one that prays the most, or sit, venerably at the head of some local community council to help the poor.
Bad people like to LOOK good.
The real good people you often find at places that is not posh or fine. They are there where they can actually do good, and that is often in the gutter somewhere. Places where things smell, and the air is ripe with sin. There you see them, going about their business, like angels in the filth.
The sad thing is; if a leadership of a country or a congregation, does not realise this. These few angels, that should be ones to lead us, never reach the leadership role they should have. But remain in corners around in the gutters washing peoples feet, taking care of the homeless, sick and poor.
I believe, that one of the things we should start doing, is look for angels, where they are, and ask them to lead us.
Often they would reject our pleading, and go about their business, but often enough they would sacrifice their calling and be an administrator.
If we cannot ask them to lead us, then try and be inspired by those few lights, and do as them.
G-d bless the pursuit for goodness.
I think the discussion last night war absolutely brilliant, it could not have been better. Well done ms. Clinton. Still a long way to go, but on to a good start.
We can still wheel some support in, due to the bomb shock mr. Trumps camp must be in. But it has to be done now.
That is, go out, make your points again at some convention, and start pushing some more.
It is about momentum, try to build on the momentum you get from the discussion.
Well done, ms. Clinton, well done.
G-d bless the willingness to remain humble in the office of the United States.
I believe that mr. Jimmy Carter had some good ideas about what could be the content of this presidential election. Or rather the content of the democratic contented.
1. Civil rights
2. Climate Change
3. Economic justice
These ideas are so strong, that they may very well carry us directly into the oval office.
We still have to counter the threat of islamism. This is a prerequisite for a successful presidentship
But we may have ideas about what we want to do, but we still have to carry the crown juvels into the next four years of presidency.
That is, on one hand, we have to counter the immediate threaths to the US, and next come up with some new ideas, so that people think we have a positive message as well.
G-d bless Hillary Clinton, and good luck in the debate.
The old US of A is tearing up in the seams. What is happening, well is it not obvious if you at it from the eyes of our enemy?
Our enemies are islamists, we fight them i the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, and in Libya and many other places.
This we do, because they are a threat to the liberal order. That is it. The new thing is; they have landed on our shores, and are now fighting, viciously and without any regard to human casualties, spreading terror wherever they are; Orlando, new York, Boston. You name it, you hate it.
This fuels an unconscious fear, also called …. terror.
So in essence, we are fighting the terror here in the US and abroad. But the terror still has hold of us. And instead of us using our tools to target the terror, the angst fuels the racewars.
So what at one point had nothing to do with race, is subtly converted into something else.
What is the cure?
We have to be open and precise about the character of the threat. It is not all muslims, and not all blacks, it is islamists. People who believe in the caliphate and fights for a sharia driven state.
This will, at one hand, give all, without regards to colour a flag to rally around, that is democracy, and at the other hand spare those democracy loving muslims.
So, scream it out, yell it at the top of the roofs, make it clear, fight it, enlighten it, show it, name it, make it bleed.
This is a fight for democracy against at vile creed, an abomination, we need to put it to ground. All, white, yellow, black in defence of out democracy.
Do that and save America for another round.
G-d bless the old US of A.
You know, sometimes, you stop all the grinding and have a little look on what you are, where you come from, and where you might go.
One of those occurrences happened to me just today. It was a silly, small thing, but it kind of struck me anyway.
At prehighschool I was kind of crazy about this beautiful girl. We shared some time together, but it never really kicked off.
Sometime after my prehighschool I had this message from her, where she told me, that she had had a crush on me as well. Kind of tragic. Since then, I have often thought about her, where she might have gone to, what she had done to her life. Did she get married, had kids, and so on.
Stupid thoughts really, but the first love of your life seems to stick.
I just realised what happened to her. She went to a little beautiful island called Bornholm, where she became a professional potter. That was what we had in-between us at that time, we did a lot of pottering together.
You know, if she had, or I had had the courage to ask her that time when we were only fifteen, we would have had a completely other life. A much, much better life. But that is what it is right. You are often pushed to this side or the other by chance.
My point is, you do chose, sometimes where you wanna go, and what to do. Other times you dont.
It has been a bit of a serious relationship Denmark and the US has had over the time, since the Mohammad cartoon crisis, or rather since mr. Fogh was PM of Denmark.
Now we have a shift of presidents of the US. And we can choose to go on with our relationship, or end it.
Like any relationship.
I think my basic point is; when you find something worthwhile, dont lose it. You need to fight to keep the good things in life.
I believe that the friendship between the US and Denmark has been good for both of us. We inspire each other, fight our battles together, have our victories and losses together. Somehow we have grown over the last decade or two.
Let is hold on to that, as long as we can. Because together we are stronger, and the good relationship we have, brings out the best in each of us. That is what friendship is about.
G-d bless the friendship between the US and Denmark.
The American election is tipping around. The reason is, that ms. Clinton is not energetic enough. You have to push your agenda, otherwise someone else will take over.
There is only so much you can do with money, at the end of the day. It is about you, getting up on that podium and start inspiring.
This is a war on energy in a sense. Who has the most to put out there within a frame of civility.
G-d bless the wisdom of beauty.
In a very secular society, all virtue seem to disappear sometimes. There is very little “right or wrong”, there is confusion and the disappearance of traditional values.
Well, I am very traditional in some ways. You know I am a family man, I truly love my wife, and strive everyday to make my little family work.
It has come to the point, where there is a certain balance. In the beginning, it was very difficult, we had no money, and little support. But now after six years, it is getting better. We can pay our bills, there is even a little left after the bills are payed.
Some of the conflicts there were so much in the beginning are not there anymore. Now we do truly support each other, and we can relax. Mind you, this is not perfect, far from. We still have our grievances, as all families have.
But, at the end of the day. It works, we are happy with our little family.
Today, there are many answers to the happiness of life. Go down to any bookstore, and there you will be presented with a myriad of advice; eat healthy, go jogging, make a good career. But what truly matters, that is family and friends, few books are written about.
Why dont we have a good and serious book about how friendship works? Or a good book about the happy family, supported by spirit?
Why dont we, those who are supposed to be the caretakers of family and friendship talk a little more about it?
The gospel of joy.
Why dont we realise, that goodness leads to happiness. If we spread that idea or thought, then we would win over the sceptics and the naysayers. We could say, we could or could not believe in G-d. But there is an idea that we do believe in, and that is that we have to be good and supportive people.
Goodness and care taking, is a moral imperative, we should do that a little more. We should not be naive, and have our goodness be abused, but we should do as much good as we can.
G-d bless the home of families and friends.
It has been 15 years, since those terrorist flew into the Two towers of New York, one of the hall marks of freedom.
It is nice to say, right; freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom from tyranny, freedom from suppression.
It has been a whole bunch of years, fighting one battle after the other, winning some, losing some. But at the end of the day, I believe we have come out stronger. The enemies were not just the islamists, Osama bin Laden and so, also our own corruption and lack of high moral standards when it comes of all the virtues of our society; freedom, justice and equality.
I may not be American myself, but I do know how you feel, how the endless infights of not only our allies, but even our own friends seem to take over from time to time.
At this time of of the year, at this special occasion. I believe we should shed what makes us different, and embrace what makes us alike.
Unite, to the tones of our prophetic anthem; we are the bold and the brave, and so we will remain.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Mr. Zuckerberg asked at Facebook about thoughts concerning Facebook. What is the essence of it really, and how may it develop. This is not a critical essay, but an essay to lay a philosophical idea behind some of the UI development.
Lets have a little tour back memory lane, to where it all started, that is the IT, computer business. It started with Gopher. I remember when I were at university we had this new device that could show a coffee machine somewhere else in the world, we were like; thats amazing! Then we had a computer with a mouse, the idea was again just hilariously ground breaking.
But then again, let us just look a little further back to when some of the hippies were listening to Clearwater revival and talking over something called the Well. Strange, they talked a lot about Openess I remember. Openness became a thing for the nerds. Open source, free code and so on. An ideological strand within the computer community, that gave us things as Wikipedia and Android.
If we take a look at that stream, we can, if we wish, take a small step even further back to the beginning of the cold war, and we may have an idea about what this is about. At the time the great leader of the atomic development team that gave us the tech behind nuclear warheads mr. Niels Bohr, a Danish physician, was in deep trouble. He just realised that he had invented a tool that could effectively end the entire existence of the planet, and he reached out. He made this beautifully scripted letter to the UN, called the “Weapon of Openness”, you could call that the secret simulacrum of all geeks. The kind of deeper scripture of Anonymous and all those free wheeling internet hippies.
Openess. I happen to know a little bit about that idea, because you see mr. Bohr did not just take that idea out of the open. It was a part of a Danish discourse on ethics of that time, that seeped out internationally, and yes, now I will give you the deeper meaning of it. That comes with another beautiful story.
You see mr. Bohr was a friend of a philosopher called K.E. Løgstrup. Mr. Løgstrup was one of those rare thinkers that actually invented his own philosophy, and, by all means a lost thinker that many churches could take up. He was the true heir to Kierkegaard, in my eyes.
He had a beautiful wife, a certain Rosalia Løgstrup. Just as Kierkegaard was helplessly infatuated with a certain Regine, Knud was in love with his beautiful wife, GERMAN wife.
Under the second world war, one day the German soldiers came knocking on the door of the Løgstrups, and Rosalia had to answer the call. The thing was, that Knud was a part of the resistance, a leading part, and the soldiers wanted him.
So there you have it, a German Rosalia speaking to German soldiers about her husband who were fighting the Germans. A dilemma. Rosalia did not solve this dilemma, but told the German soldiers a little about where he might be. Not all, but a little.
Happily Knud was never caught, but he was questioning the wisdom of Rosalia, so she answered him; it is a basic human trait to be open. It is when we lose our ability to be open that we lose trust.
It is what makes us human.
Now, fast forward to Facebook, perhaps mr. Zuckerberg can actually use this wisdom? Openness is more than just a principle, it is one of the basic things of humanity. If you create more openness in the world, you will, by doing that, make people see themselves, their loved ones and perhaps even their enemies more openly, and thereby bring them more humanity.
G-d bless the will to be open.
To win this election, we need to get into the offensive. It works like this.
While we use our energy to demonise mr. Trump, he uses his many faculties to try and make a policy that will work with the voters.
Mr. Trump is many things, but he is not stupid, on the contrary he is extremely intelligent. He is not evil either, he is just without much experience and extremely conservative when it comes to migration and so on.
So if we just continue demonising mr. Trump, he will eventually win. By small steps.
Mr. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, the major news apparatus out there, has some really interesting, and I think sympathetic ideas about the impact of Facebook. He says, in the old days people got their views from a single news source, or perhaps a couple of news sources. Today with Facebook, the reader are much more prone to be presented to views they would not necessarily agree with.
What does the mean in this election? It means, that even though mass media is not very friendly to mr. Trump, the normal reader does not notice this very much. There will be news outlets that will convey the ideas of mr. Trump regardless, and they tend to pop up everywhere in the internet, because, basically, these informations are of an interest to everybody.
This is the new situation we are facing.
What does that mean? It means, we are facing a war of solutions. People look at the solutions to their problems, represented by different candidates, and they chose accordingly.
That is why I would say, as Alinsky said in his work; organise, organise, organise. Or content, content, content.
We need to come up with serious, solid, good solutions to the problems that Americans worry about.
So what do they worry about the most? They worry about getting jobs, we covered that base, by supporting American made production. Let us use that a bit more.
Then they worry about crime and terror. This is a topic that we have not covered that much. It is extremely dangerous.
But notice, that mr. Trump has softened his ideas on this field. It is not all muslims now he charges, but only islamists.
This is because he is reading Rubicon, hi mr. Trump, you very welcome, and if can use my ideas, please do. But I do still support ms. Clinton.
So what we need to do, is to make a refinement on the same topic. Otherwise he will just use my good ideas, and not ms. Clinton.
The way it can work is like this:
Instead of charging muslims with terror, charge Islamists. That is politically driven muslims. They dream of a Caliphate and hates democracy.
That is an enemy if there ever was one. At the same time, take of civil rights. This is one of our core strengths.
Say that you support our democratic rights, and know that most American Muslims do the same. And at the same time, you will hunt down all those democracy hating muslims, wherever they are. To win the fight over IS.
See it? At the one hand you do protect most muslims, while you protect the American citizens. The secret services are absolutely ok with this tactics, because this is what they have been doing for a long time anyway. So it is a proven tactics.
G-d bless all who fight for Freedom.
I remember for a long time ago, I met this German guy. We walked along each other for a little while, and he just seemed demoralised in a way. I understand this, after the second world war, Germany lost, and with it lost a great deal of its identity and self appreciation.
It has been a paradigm in Germany, that Germans do not question any refugees coming into Germany, because it lost in the war. In a way it was a way to repent, and pay back.
Listen, I am a Jew, my own great grandmother had to flee nazioccupation in Denmark, and almost died. We have a long tradition in my family for supporting Jews in the run and Israel. But this is not a argument for all the suffering that Germany now runs through. It has to stop sometime.
The Shoa will always be a part of Jewish history, and will never be forgotten, it will stand along the persecution in Persia and Egypt many thousand years ago. But this does not mean, that things cannot change, we can be friends again.
But right now I believe that Germany should start thinking about surviving. The problems at hand are getting out of control, and you have to do something about it.
The rise in crime that has followed the massive migrant influx worries Germans, and that is understandable. The religiously motivated conflicts also worries the citizens.
Germans are extremely wellorganized and courageous, we know that. So you need to use those skills to stop the crime, and end the suffering of Germans who are living close to all the problems that are everywhere.
Do not use excessive methods, but use the tools you have within the state to protect Germans against abuse. Otherwise things might just get our of hand.
G-d bless Germany.
If you want to change something, look at the bright side. That was my point about mr. Soros and his focus on the dark side.
Good preachers look to G-d and see his light for what it is; benevolence, love, charity, support, help, solidarity all these words that transcends all that is evil, and boundaries between men.
Bad preachers they look at evil and rages against it. They talk bad, and have a moral superiority towards other people.
Good preachers know that people are full of faults and will do bad things from time to time, but always tries their best.
Bad preachers look at the faults of the man, and scolds him for them.
Good preachers are full of forgiving and love.
Bad preachers are full of hate and venom.
So the same goes for politics. Good politicians are all in for the good in society and focuses on that. Bad politicians focus on the faults of their opponents, and see a moral problem with them.
To win something, you need a positive vibe, you need to come up with new ideas to solve the problems we have.
That is why I believe we should see our world in the light of a benevolent spirit. A, “yes, we can!” spirit of positivism. Ok, there will be many a turn, where people will tell you we cannot. Do not believe them, there is such a thing as goodness and solidarity in the world, there is!
G-d bless the will to look at the bright side of life.
I know that climate change has not been a major point in the current political debate. But, this is one of the strengths of the liberal part, and we should play by our strengths.
After reflecting on the metaphysical and biological content of nature, I think we should also come up with some practical ideas.
If we zoom in on the ideological content of climate change, in the light of an Empedochlean understanding. Nature has to be set free in a way that it will seek harmony. Harmony is about balance of the different factors, and purity. A simple ecosystem has a better chance of working than a complex ecosystem. So what we need to find is places where nature has been left alone and not meddled with. Like the natural parks. These all sit in remote areas where people have a hard time coming to.
We should build on that idea and make more natural parks, where it is possible. And not only natural parks on ground, but also in the sea.
The good thing about natural parks is also, that people can go there and be inspired about nature.
One thing is to talk about it endlessly, another thing is for people to see it with their own eyes.
One last thing, that I think is a problem, and that is with no comparative data to support it, is the vast pollution of the Pacific Ocean. There is a lot of plastic floating around in the sea, and it is a huge problem for many living species. Turtles, fish, perhaps even some of the flora.
This I am not expert in, but there have been attempts on recovering and rinsing the Pacific through different means. That would be a good project to work on.
G-d bless the will to be the caretaker of nature.