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What Is This Election About Anyway? |
The mid-term election officially begins two weeks from today but has already begun in many states. I ask the obvious question: What is this election about? |
Some say it is about gas prices and while I abhor the fact that fossil fuel companies have made money like bandits during the COVID crisis and up through today, and people are hurting at | MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes
reports on “Why The Price Of Gas Could Decide The Fate Of American Democracy.” |
the gas pump, I don’t see the election as being about gas prices. If it was, we would be going after the fossil fuel
companies for their greed and I don’t see that happening. Furthermore, Putin, the invader of Ukraine, is also responsible for gas price increases (along with his OPEC+ enablers) and they are not being
punished in this election. Indeed, the current administration has done a yeoman’s job in gathering European countries to resist Putin alongside Ukraine. Gas prices are up all around the world, and far more than in America where prices are less than most places. As for inflation, it is a bummer. I am against it. But it too is everywhere and it too is in large part due to the war in Ukraine that has caused starvation in many countries around the world because the world is so dependent on Ukraine and Russia for grain, soybeans, sunflowers and more. Putin’s war has seriously slowed down exporting farm goods. |
CNN‘s Michael
Smerconish discusses the shifting attitudes among the American people about the financial support the US is providing Ukraine. | Speaking as someone who does not belong to the church of Donald. J. Trump, but is a simple citizen who tries to follow a Christ path that is also deeply ecumenical, I ask myself: What are the real issues in the current election? |
I see it as a choice between a possible (we’re not there yet by a long shot) government “of the people, by the people and for the people” (Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg) vs. a government of the Koch brothers, by Opus Dei and for the corporations and billionaires who flood elections with dark money. All these puppeteers are pulling the strings behind six of the current Supreme Court puppets beginning with the “chief” John Roberts, on whose watch the voting rights act was
demolished twice. |
Yes, the same voting rights act that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (honoring whom, after all, we have a national holiday) was martyred. And thousands of others
who marched, went to jail, were attacked by police dogs, fire hoses and so much more until the Voting Rights Act was passed. | The Morning Joe panel discusses new police body cam footage, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times/Herald, of the effects of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crackdown on perceived voter
fraud. MSNBC |
To dismantle the voting rights of the disenfranchised, which is a front and center goal of the church of Donald J. Trump (once known as the Republican Party) is to piss on the grave of Dr. King and all those he marched with, went to jail with, and died for. This election can remind us that sacrifice is required of us at home as well as for those on the battlefront defending against Putin’s aggression. That sacrifice includes gasoline and food prices for the time being. It does not include sacrificing democracy however. It means defending it. To be continued. |
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Queries for Contemplation What sacrifices do you see yourself asked to make at this time of defending Ukraine from Putin’s invasion? And how do you name what are the important choices in the upcoming election? |
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