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The Meaning of the Mid-Term Elections,
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We are meditating on what the mid-term elections are about this year. We are choosing whether to have a government that is “of the people, by the people, and for the people” or one that is of the Koch brothers, by Opus Dei and for the corporations and billionaires who flood elections with dark money. |
Whether it is of the triumph of dark money from (often) crazy billionaires and corporations buttressed by a supreme court they have paid for and that was hand-chosen by a member of a fascist religious cult known as Opus Dei. | New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy spokesperson/ adviser Nancy Watzman joins CBS News to flag social media misinformation and how people are using these platforms to manipulate voters. |
And how the church of Donald J. Trump,
once known as the Republican Party, will have power once again to cozy up with Putin even though he has invaded a sovereign country in Europe for the first time since WWII and is committing countless crimes against humanity in carrying out an obviously illegal and immoral war. (To his credit, President Biden has masterfully enlisted the common support of European countries and buttressed the NATO defense to assist Ukraine in its struggle to survive as a fledging democracy.) And to put billionaires before ordinary citizens (kudos go to Robert’s Supreme Court decisions for Citizens United). And kudos go to Robert’s court for gutting the voting rights act of course, yes, the act that Dr. King worked and died for along with millions of others who filled jails, were beaten and worse. John Lewis among them. And for gutting EPA defenses of clean air and soon to be, clean water. |
Supreme Court will continue rightward turn even with new justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson on the bench, says CBS News national and
legal correspondent Jan Crawford. | And the church of Donald J. Trump is committed to denial of climate change, therefore to the continued blazing of the planet. (Ask your children and
grandchildren about this. It might be a good |
thing to consider them and not just your gas prices at the pump when pulling levers when you vote.) And to enshrine in laws all over the country the god-given right of men– especially creepy politician, clergy, judicial and lawyer men–to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies. And damning the separation of church and state. And if some religions do NOT consider a young fetus to be a human being (which, by the way is the case with Saint Thomas Aquinas, a doctor of the Catholic church and the Jewish religion), they are not to be listened
to. |
Church and state should be united provided that church is the church of Donald J. Trump and his evangelical and Opus Dei allies, i.e. certain Christian churches. But Jews and
Muslims and thinking Christians—for you church and state are separated. | Supporters of the former White House tenant weigh in at a rally in Michigan on why the United States should be a “Christian Nation.” The Young Turks |
In this way we guarantee that Patriarchy reigns. And fascism
becomes the fashion. Once again. That is what this mid-term election is about. |
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Queries for Contemplation Are you feeling the creeping fascism of our times which includes an oligarchy held in place by a corrupt political system and Citizens United decision that whereby the top 1% are spending $1.6 billion on TV ads buying political favors? Is this inspiring your vote and your working to get others to
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