What's This Election About?

What’s this election about?  It’s NOT about Democrats and Republicans. This  election is fundamentally a referendum on our history.  The question this election must answer is:

Are we going to continue down a 500-plus year history of genocidal mania so rich, racist, misogynistic, greedy overlords can continue to rape the land, exterminate the sacred diversity of this planet, and subvert freedom into their on-going rage against the planet and its peoples?

OR,

Are we going to grab the last window of opportunity through our vote to blast us off the extinction course they are blindly pursuing and claim the Original Blessing with which we were endowed at the beginning of creation where all was declared good and all were told to be fruitful?

Since white European monarchs first rose and stifled humanity, they have spread their duplicitous colonizing murderous ways across the face of the earth in their insatiable quest for more wealth.  They’ve spewed their disingenuous lip-service about “liberty and freedom for all” while they’ve killed or shackled 90% of the world’s population with poverty, disease, hunger, and misery. Across the plains of North America, they poisoned, shot, hung, infected, rounded up and sequestered the entire race of Native Americans.  In our own lifetimes, they have continued this madness of digging, chopping, exploiting, stealing, warring their way across Viet Nam, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, Iraq, Iran, Africa and with subterfuge and our tax money overthrown sovereign governments and assassinated leaders.  They have cowed all US citizens with their filthy lies about inter-racial hatred and sowed suspicion against all who don’t bow and worship their privileged white plantation-owning lives.  This year, THIS YEAR, what is on our ballots is: Will we allow this to continue?  Beyond this year it is not at all clear whether we, the people, will get the opportunity again to get this right and say “No” to this infernal massive planetary abortion of humanity and creation.

We are living in a post-modern feudalism where rich overlords are manipulating the levers of power to sow animosity throughout the population, turning us against one another, convincing us of the smallness of the economic pie.  They do this so they can steal our livelihood through unfair one-sided taxation, keep the focus off their corruption, and mollify us with false measures of our economic viability.  Ending this con game is what this election is about. Free-market capitalism was supposed to harness the human impulse toward greed and domination.  It was supposed to present opportunity to everyone that if they took hold of the reins of their destiny and worked they could thrive and achieve economic security for their families.  People wake up.  This is not happening.  The greedy have taken everything they can and they are now no different than the Sheriff of Nottingham – they’re burning towns & villages, they’re sponsoring outright gun battles in our streets, and they are taking all our hard work and turning it into hate, vindictiveness, and anger with our fellow citizens when it is them with whom we should be angry.

This election, this referendum, is do the rich monarchs of power get to keep throwing us in the gutter while they continue to burn down the planet? Do they get to continue bastardizing Our Constitution by eliminating the checks and balances that were built into this unique experiment and brief foray into democracy of, for, and by the people?  If you do not vote you are saying, "Go ahead. Throw me into debtors prison, I don’t care."  If you vote for corporate shills – Trump & Company-- you vote for more animosity, anxiety, noise, and planetary annihilation.  If you vote for Bloomberg, Buttigieg, or Biden, you vote for the same only with a softer, gentler chloroform so you sleep through a slow-motion demise of America.

I don’t like Bernie.  He’s abrasive, he’s old, his rabid followers are stubborn, mule-headed and are not kind or gentle.  But, policy-wise he’s putting people back in power in place of the rich oligarchs who are scared to death he might succeed for us.  Elizabeth Warren is a softer version of Bernie.  I think one or the other of them, or both, have the prescription our democracy needs at this junction in history.  If they are just too scary revolutionary for you – then go with Klobuchar, who at least talks about the common people’s plight and appeals to our higher angels to unify.

This is a true existential fork in the road. Humanity cannot continue to exist under feudal overlords whose only interest is owning the world. They do not care about one single person besides themselves – as epitomized in their present leader in the White House; they have moved full on into eliminating anyone who comes between them and their exploitative ways. Our only chance is to stand united.  Our masses can take back the planet, put in place a rational reset for the past 250 years of environmental degradation and human suffering. There are bitter pills we all have to swallow.  We can’t afford to be picky about who we like.  Unlike past elections, it’s not a matter of which candidate’s hair we like or who gives a better speech or even about the “lesser of two evils.” Extinction is on our ballot here and now!  This is about our children’s future.  Please don’t mess it up.