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The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections,
part III |
We are meditating on government of the Koch brothers, by Opus Dei and for the corporations and billionaires who flood elections with dark money. |
This in contrast to government of the people, by the people, and for the people proposed by Abraham Lincoln following the victory at Gettysburg over confederate and pro-slavery forces. | President Lincoln witnesses the impact of his words on Union soldiers in “Quoting the Gettysburg Address” from the 2012 movie Lincoln. Vintage MovieClips |
One wonders if the church of Donald J.
Trump (once known as the Republican Party) is so set against government of, by and for the people because they resent having lost the Civil War. Thanks to January 6, we all know how Trump is not good at admitting to losing. The current candidate for governor of Arizona says she will follow suit if she loses her election. And the Civil War was a matter of defending slavery, and the church of Donald J. Trump (CODT) is not well known for being opposed to racism, white supremacy, or antisemitism. Nor is it eager to let black people vote (or even pass out water while waiting in lines for hours in hot states like Georgia to vote)–as is evident from over 400 laws being enacted around the country by those enrolled in the CODT. |
David Pepper: Statehouses Are Influencing Democracy More Than We Expect. From the Koch brothers’ historic actions to modern Supreme Court decisions, the fulcrum of democracy in
2022 will lie at the state
and local levels. Every State Blue | As for the Koch brothers, their wet dream for decades has been to dismantle environmental protections to render themselves freer to make billions on fossil fuels that are
setting the planet on fire. |
They invested heavily in creating law schools that would turn out lawyers to buttress their “vision.” Now the Koch brothers have judges and lawyers and the supreme court that
they bought and paid for and waited patiently for all this time doing their bidding. And they are not going to waste this opportunity. They must be in seventh heaven! Not only has their court already gutted air
pollution rules of the EPA—it is now salivating over doing the very same thing with clean water. “Kill the EPA!” is their mantra (Translation: “Kill the Planet! We make more money that way. It is interfering with our corporate profits!”). |
Who needs clean air? Who needs clean water? Who needs a planet that is not burning and glaciers not melting and seas not rising and hurricanes and
floods not increasing and wild fires not wilding? | Judith Browne Dianis, Executive Director of Advancement Project joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the stakes heading into the 2022 midterm
elections. MSNBC |
Who needs educated
citizens? Or good roads? Or bridges that are not collapsing? Or internet and hospitals in rural areas? (Taxes pay for these things after all.) But who needs taxes? Not the billionaires or
corporations (including media like Murdoch’s empire) genuflecting at the church of Donald J. Trump. THIS is what this mid-term election is about. To be continued. |
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Queries for Contemplation Are you voting and urging others to vote for a government of, by and for the people? Or its alternative? |
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