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The Way We Were, We Are – and Both Fantasy and Truth: Hurt -Headlined on OpEdNews.com – TREMR Featured Writer
If we have yet to learn anything about what motivates Donald Trump, it is his predictable pattern to manipulate every situation to his numerical advantage – whether TV ratings, political polls or millions who swoon to his rhetoric, swinging like pendulums in violent extremes.
If only we acknowledged, knowledge of American History as our civic duty, we could understand America has always been a balancing act between Conservatives and Liberals.
20% of Colonists believed America’s security was anchored in the past with King George III. As such, they are the predecessors of fear of change, which remains the lynchpin of Conservative thinking today.
Believing liberty and freedom are found in warring against ourselves is to ignore the history of, Ach, if we only knew, and thus repeat the subjugation of human decency to the basest form of self-deception and most egregious offense against, love thy neighbor as thyself.
Our history has tried to educate our courage to awaken us to the benefits of national evolution, by learning necessary lessons without repeating them: the disparity of the Industrial Age, women denied voting rights, Roaring Twenties violence, lack of Constitutional Gender Equality and Too Big to Fail greed.
IF, 70% (rather than 50-60%) of We the People voted in every election for Liberals with proven track records of trying to help all who live here and many who sacrifice all, to live here – America could minimize, if not positively transform:
- The backward-looking political whims of Conservatives in Congress, SCOTUS, and mobs of insurrectionists
- Our racial, cultural and sexual biases
- Failing banking systems before profiteering Board Members sell stocks for millions
- Media nursing at the sour milk breasts of Corporatism’s self-serving news for dummies hyperbole
- From our belief that social media Likes, Followers and Friends are real, before we start worshiping posts by Artificial Intelligence
If we only respected America’s passionate motivations for our Revolutionary War delivering us from taxation without representation, we might deliver Washington, DC (our nation’s capital) from this Conservative infliction, and prevent Corporate owned media from shredding our, United We Stand, determining individual worth by salary, skin color or sexual orientation.
Doing so, however, we risk the wisdom of knowing the real antagonists against America’s future has always been: where the money goes and from whom it flows.
Federalists, Whigs, Democrats, Republicans, even Independents with no party affiliation, have never been perfect at preserving, protecting and defending all living in America.
However, the difference between Liberals and Conservatives is, Liberals, lean toward fighting for, our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, while Conservatives fight for, Corporations are People, Banksters Too Big to Jail and selling their souls to Billionaires like Charles Koch, shipping magnate Richard Uihlein, Chairman Larry Ellison, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Kelcy Warren, Oil Baron Harold Hamm, Linda McMahon formerly of the Small Business Administration, before Chairing the pro-Trump super-PAC called: America First.
Beware, some male political/corporate power brokers – likeAdelson-McMahon-Mercer-SCOTUS Justice Thomas, hide their conservative biases behind the skirts of their wives and daughters.
Our ever-increasing willingness to be bought and sold, aiding and abetting Billionaire control over the information we receive, is too akin to being enslaved like the triangle trade.
Although, America’s collective truth and singular definition were sculptured before Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and DCI/CIA Bay of Pigs director Allen Dulles both betraying Republican Eisenhower, Democrat Kennedy and the American people confirms: it’s not about political party, but the continuing Civil War between Conservatives and Liberals regarding how best our elected officials should use our taxes to crystallize our American Dream: Hearth, Home, Family and yes, World Peace.
We must rise above:
- regurgitated monologues by sensationalists’ masquerading as, Breaking News
- Frightened politicians condemning libraries, educators and students to relive, What is Past is Prologue
- Bequeathing our children an earth teeming with life-eliminating chemicals, famine, choked on air and endless gun violence
- Corporatism’s puppeteers cloaked in Board Room avarice
- Make America Like Florida
Knowledge of our good, bad and ugly history is the power we give to our children to change their future.
No State is free while its citizens are denied historical truth, affordable gender-friendly healthcare, racial & cultural equality, and education saved from Corporatism’s ATM: Student Loans.
We still live in an America where one person can make a difference:
Given the twice Impeached Donald Trump’s stealing of Classified Documents for possible nefarious if not treasonous intent, and probable malice aforethought in illegal actions, American democracy was probably saved by one General: Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Despite betrayal by the CIA, and overwhelming opposition from Conservative Generals, President Kennedy saved the world from nuclear destruction.
Education in American history is not our enemy. Conservatives’ fear of it, is!
It is the Destiny of democracies to Skate on Thin Ice OpEdNews.com Headline – TREMR Featured Writer
America was born out of a dream of faith in the future, hope in humanity and love for self-government. However, even an exceptional theoretical idea, is only as strong as its most self-serving link: the bedrock cashflow theory that the moneyed powerful will honestly trickle-down true information and economic justice.
When ensconced only in the twisted history of America from the mouths of those whose historical traditions and talking points are skewed to maintain political power over those uninformed and/or misinformed regarding truth that would set us free from The Big Lie – many are feeling helpless and alone.
When we vote for candidates claiming America needs saving from our present evolution, we surrender both country and ourselves to the violent whims of self-appointed saviors, radicalized militia and MAGA Republican foot soldiers akin to those who attacked our government of, by and for the people on 6 January 2021.
Our general lack of command of America’s foundational historic facts, makes everyone vulnerable to those choosing to imitate WWII European dictators by dividing us through uniting our historically separate tenets: render unto Ceasar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s and Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
American elections continue to be a collection of imperfect humanity politically seesawing to elect humans striving for perfection for all. While this has been an infrequent success, some have been a perfect fit for the time in which they served all living among us.
- Abraham Lincoln first elected Republican President – saved America from the same kind of scare tactics coupled with a peculiar institution that still garners votes from Conservative Republicans in 2022
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt lifting us out of Conservative Republicans basking in the M. O. of Coolidge’s, the business of America is business and Hoover’s Hoovervilles’ launching our Great Depression
- John F. Kennedy inheriting a Cold War from Eisenhower’s too little too late Military Industrial Complex warning, saving humanity’s world from nuclear destruction following an unauthorized CIA attempt to occupy the island of Cuba ninety miles south of Florida, giving Khrushchev the excuse to install thermal nuclear weapons aimed at America – whose ground commanders were authorized to launch should America attempt another invasion
The value of an informed electorate armed with the common sense to fact check pizza pedophile conspiracies before locking and loading – the human decency to learn from the cruelty of Nazi persecution of jews to not repeat such inhumane violence against our fellow citizens seventy-five years later – and the intelligence to see through a Black & White television political ad using the name of God in vain for one’s own vouchsafe vanity, vanquishing viability for vicarious vote-getting victory via the villainy of vainglory so venomous to virtue.
It is historically short-sighted to believe Trumpism is something new in American history. Trump is nothing more than our 21st century’s update of 19th Century Robber Barons, Mid-20th Century McCarthyism, Dixiecrats and the KKK.
America’s Better Angels have always had to be the balancing act in counterpoint to our penny wise and pound-foolish denial that our collective supply for individual demand produces inflation.
Consider perhaps, when the Galilean from Nazareth said, the poor will always be with us, perhaps it was less a prediction than an admonishment for: as we ignore the poor into a life left behind, we welcome the evil of false prophets convincing us to pollute our planet, minds and destruction from within.
Instead of succumbing to the most outrageous volume, in times of economic uncertainty, true faith summons that still small voice within and risks unlocking our courageous moments of decision. Rejecting being taken back to past injustices and inhumanity, we need ask, what can we profit if we gain personal wealth, but lose the soul of our nation.
Depending on who or what device wields the double edge sword of knowledge is power, we usually acquire what we’re looking for, whether the gift of wisdom or antagonistic demagoguery.
For American voters mesmerized by a president proclaiming, I am the chosen one, putting on self-aggrandizing shows of bombastic performances claiming to be capable of unprosecuted murder on 5th Ave for those walking in his shadow – even those cloaked in religion, chocking beliefs into arrogant life and death superiority over election workers, God’s Chosen People and those simply not Caucasian enough to be a part of their American dismemberment, we must stand tall and vote true in order to save America for our children because anyone claiming America’s dream succeeds with Trumpism’s American Nightmare is the ghost of our past inequalities seeking to shroud us in the darkness.
On Tuesday 8 November 2022, please vote for the American Dream sharing our freedoms, justice and equality for all people who come after us.
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