Conservatives
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!
We the People are Free to Choose Truth or Live The Big Lie! OpEdNews.com Headline, Best of TREMR
America may survive with both dishonest old white men cloning false prophets creating conservative conspiracies, but it can only thrive when an empowered majority learns to discern the truth instead of, taking our country back, to keep up with the Alex Joneses.
We ignore gun manufacturers manufacturing owners of militarized weapons targeting innocent civilians – or we disarm LaPierre and all profiteering off murdered school children, with legal accountable.
Admitting 1776-1782 Red Coat loyalists are the inspirational connecting bridge to those who chose a war of secession against the United States of America to preserve, protect and defend their perceived right to prosper off the free hard labor of enslaved children, raped women and men in chains – we heal.
Not all Americans believing in The Don’s second coming are card carrying members of the third of Americans possessed by a predictive tradition of attaching themselves to the loudest voice screaming the most fabrications, owning those who know not what they do, with just a sip from the cup of deception.
We can genuflect at the CPAC altar of creating tension, manufacturing exaggerated fears and unwarranted hatred now devouring the Party of Lincoln – or opt out of hanging ourselves on the burning crosses of arrogant anti-justice Justices and trumped rioters treading on our Constitution.
When we advance beyond the foot soldiers deceitfully Cruzing in Stack Formation against democracy, we hold fast to our collective faith in our exceptional peaceful transition of power.
Shall we settle for the freedom bequeathed only to those resembling the gender and color of our Founding Fathers – or have a new birth of freedom overdue for our diverse evolution?
Conservative anti-abortion votes expose supreme hypocrisy of before birth care vs. after aging-out of at twenty-one neglects.
Our Constitution is not just a piece of old parchment under glass, but exceptional promises amended through time and wisdom, etched in our very political soul-searching to shield us from mob rule.
Are we not yet courageous enough to honor all who have and continue to sacrifice on foreign soil, defend truth in our courts of law, save lives in hospitals and educate our children by being living examples of our Constitutional freedoms and justice for all?
Our nation can maintain its admittedly fragile floundering foundation footing, facing fools floating fraudulent forces, finishing forty-five’s flagrant falsehoods fortifying The Right – IF our American Dream includes choosing truth, rather than standing like a fused Red Army in ovation for a foreign fossil fawning for fascism.
We could mimic Trump’s pressure on Wisconsin Assembly’s elections committee – or persevere with democratic Inflation Reduction Act – despite Republicans refusing to help Americans needing insulin.
We could honor what we claim to be as America or emulate Pennsylvania’s example of selectively cherry-picking primary election certification.
Shall we roll over blind-sided by Conservative Republicans’ lip service to Christian values more akin to Gerald L. K Smith than the man from Nazareth – or stand tall in defense of, no one is above the law.
We can blame Black people frankly for gun violence, and the FBI for the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection against Congress and our U. S. Capitol – or embrace the truth that both hurts and sets us free from our ensconced prejudices, allowing manipulators of thought to capitalize on our weakness for quick and easy solutions.
We can blame presidents for roller-coaster prices at the pump, or we could vote out those in office who allow Corporations to profit off our financially challenging times, by evicting the elected who receive the largest donations from the big five oil companies.
Arguably, America has become a tale of two countries, though like our 1860-1865 Big Lie: The War of Northern Aggression, we are not evenly divided. The Good Samaritans still outnumber the gullible and shortsighted.
However, currently the idea and ideals of America are being choked out of our collective memory by faux patriotism’s Boa constrictors: election deniers projecting sowers of derision and division; dissemblers like Steve Bannon, mass-murder liars like Alex Jones, new opportunist Kari Lake and our wannabe Russian Commissar fired in November 2020 – unless we heed our better angels and resurrect our peace that passes all understanding, now entombed in a shallow grave of malice aforethought by GOP Conservatives.
Electing to save teachers’ public-school curriculum and our dreams of an America of, by and for all of the people from book burning, slavery rewrites and phony patriots, is a far, far better rest we go to than we have ever known.
And delivering our planet and nation, from those who would destroy it rather than witness its cultural evolution in education, equality and excellence, is a far, far better thing that we do than we have ever done.
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