America’s two grand political parties and their voluminous constituencies have lost the ability to discern between right and wrong. For one of the parties, white is right, and brown is wrong. Republicans are worried sick about the “great replacement” phenomenon, where Hispanics will surpass whites in population in America in maybe 10 years if mass deportations are not expedited like crazy. As far as the other party, imperialist war is right and peace is wrong. Democrat presidents provoked or championed the Mexican-American War of 1846 where we picked up our West Coast states, the Spanish-American War of 1898 where we got a bunch of islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, World War I and World War II where we planted 800 military bases in 100 countries across the globe, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Gaza, for starters.
Government at the highest levels today is deeply corrupt and subversive of our foundational laws and values. Its everyday domestic goal is to sow chaos and despair on both national and state levels so that the electorate will exercise desperate and total faith in a leader who says he is the only one who can harvest what he has sowed. Government exports all this corruption out to the world by various means like speeches at the United Nations and by world leaders receiving “You are summoned to the Oval Office” notices to be lectured on the mandates of the Very Newest New American World Order.
Corporations are given over to misleading or false advertising. Monopoly, perpetuation of outrageously high consumer interest rates, and regressive taxation are their holy trinity. Over a hundred years ago, the largely clandestine and soft-shoe activities of the Robber Barons were defeated by a coalition of both political parties. But today, leaders of both parties protect a permanent class of aristocrats, plutocrats, and oligarchs operating proudly out in the open.
Churches have been plodding along for a thousand years on faulty notions of ancient science and ancient spiritual matters, which were originally much more rational and much less mysterious than today’s doctrines. Conservative churches today go overboard on trying to overpower the secular world with Christian nationalism, while liberal churches act like tiny church mice with their focus on behind-the-scenes volunteering at food pantries and marching in pride parades, not believing even for a minute that Jesus ever took a stand on the testy political issues of his own day.
Schools and universities have no idea what the priority is for curriculum in a democratic republic. The whole purpose of literacy in the days of the Founding Fathers and Mothers was to enable school children to read and study the constitutions and histories of democratic nations, so the fabulous new American republic could last maybe 500 years like the one in ancient Rome did. Instead, Americans have opted to go flaming out after only 250 years, like the Hebrew Republic did when it ignored Samuel’s warning and opted for the despotic rule of King Saul.
Science has become politicized and is marshalled into the service of hurting people rather than helping them. Public health, once the linchpin of democracy in Athens, Rome, and biblical Israel, has now devolved into a tool used by the rich to impale and subjugate the poor so they have no strength to stand up against the ruling 1 percent class. Politics in electioneering has devolved into manipulation of electoral districts by gerrymandering, disappearance of election day ballot submission options, and outright force, like the January 6th insurrection in the nation’s capital, rather than the much more familiar rational persuasion and intellectual reputation of the candidate.
American sports, entertainment, and news culture today is largely destructive, benefiting our filthy rich class rather than the mass audience. Once known to be immoral, unethical, and destructive of the social fabric of a democracy, today casino gambling and sports gambling, pornography, celebrity worship of studs and starlets, never-ending dull, sophomoric and anti-democratic Hollywood movies, daytime and primetime TV shows and streaming options, and newscasts focused on sensationalist videos about airport near plane wrecks, shark attacks, and other slop, fill American brains with toxic pablum that sits there taking the place of anything serious and sophisticated that might pass by their eyes and ears.
Anybody willing to get to work fixing this mess today? If not, see you in the hell of our own making, neighbor.
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The word is revisionist. Shame on you.
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The United States provoked World War II and the war for Gaza? This is blatant revionist “history” to exculpate Hitler and Hamas for their roles in instigating their wars of aggression. Shame on you!
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