I guess that I am in the minority experience here...I would love to feel that this outcome is the reflection of the shift and an invitation for each to step into greater freedom and sovereignty. I suppose being here in the States I find it challenging to step through the political aspect on the surface as it impacts certain freedoms in a way that does not feel liberating. I do realize that true liberation is not dependent on external but an inner state which is then reflected externally. Ultimately it CAN be liberating as I feel the sense of perceived reduced equality and bodily autonomy and Self realize through it. I support movement toward greater transparency and a breakdown of corporate controls and at the same time I experience a sense of many feeling their autonomy and right to be as they are is under attack - is that just propaganda? At least locally in this state it doesn't seem that it is. I also realize there is no perfect option at this time on the surface...only degrees of opening or closing down...important to not let the idealism stand in the way of incremental change.

Feeling into the question that posed in my subject...conflicted - where is the con? Con having multiple meanings - a trick, a manipulation but also a latin root meaning together...The conflict I feel perhaps reflects the sense of unity and separation and that the shift is destructive and constructive at once. Feeling the sense of liberation on one hand and the constriction and locking down on the other.