How do I tell “real” Druids from Druid wannabees?
Druids are by nature, compassionate, benevolent, all accepting, liberal minded, tolerant, educated people, who universally accept anyone who reverences Nature as one of their own. Druids undersand that we are all interconnected and interdependant on one another and on the whole of the planet. There was in recent times, a man who self-identified as a Druid who ran for US President as a Libertarian. In fact he was an “Anti-Druid.” The underlying philosophy of Libertarianism (Objectivism, social darwinism, abject- selfishness) is totally at odds with the collectivist worldview of true Druidism, which sees every man and every woman as an extension of every other man and woman, or in more Bardic terms: droplets in the infinite ocean of Mother Gaias womb.
