You want to help people? Then volunteer at your church or local elderly center. You’ll have an impact there.

“Why be unhappy about something
If it can be remedied?
And what is the use of being unhappy about something
If it cannot be remedied?”
from: Shantideva, Guide To the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Chapter VI, 10th stanza.

Legend has it that the author Shantideva, who lived in the 8th century, was perceived by his fellow scholars (at the Nalanda University, India) to be lazy, ignorant and only capable of eating, sleeping and shitting. So, one day, in order to teach him a lesson, his classmates challenged him to give a lecture to the entire congregated assembly of the University. He immediately accepted the challenge, and gave his talk the very next day. His extemporaneously recited teaching was later transcribed and handed down to us lucky duckies, even centuries later.

And his fellow scholars were the ones to merit this mind-blowing lesson: Never judge a person by mere perceptions alone!

As for your initial question and statement, Imux, I respectfully disagree. I DO believe that we Americans can effectively persuade China to abandon her persistent and even increasing persecution of all those she perceives as “evil.”

I’ll go a step further and posit that if we individuals remain silent and don’t act on behalf of others when they are suffering mistreatment, discrimination, and even covert exclusionary practices is to participate in aggravating that suffering.

Thank goodness for this opportunity to bring awareness to this topic!

Again… seems like a waste of energy, resources and time to spend demonstrating for a cause we can’t control.

What’s that old saying? “It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and worry only about things you do control.” In this case, getting rid of these do-nothing, say-no-to-every-idea democrats and get this econmoy moving again.