The Plague

[ish mailian]

How does one choose the US? Elections don't work. Even Sanders was
and is a democrat and voting for the democrats (Biden and his band of
corportist war mongering idiots) is not a vote for the US. Or for us,
if us is "We the People" and we are the working classes in this
country.

So Revolution. The STREET. We need a movement of the multitude. Maybe
we have one. Chomskey doesn't think so and is advocating we get out
the vote for the lesser of two evils.

But maybe the brilliant old goat is wrong. We may have a movement  and
it will gain force and force more than a few racist statues to the
junkyard and a holiday, more than a check in the mail and low interest
rate loans, more than a promise that the police won't shoot you for
taking a jog, more than we believe She was raped but we don't believe
Her or Me Too because Joe is a good guy, even Lindsey Graham says so.
Maybe Capital is in trouble with unemployment set to remain high for a
long time and lots of young people with pent up demands for change,
not business as usual, not the democrats or the two evil parties that
have resembled each other more and more for decades to the point where
we can't tell Joe Biden from Sanders from Mitch McConnel. No, really
they are pretty much the same. 45 has strengthened the resolve to get
rid of 45, but replace him with Joe and maybe a Blacl female with Law
Enforcement on her resume. No, man. That's not good enough. This is a
time for big changes and the political structure needs to be taken
down. There is deep division about how that gets done. The democrat
supporters are willing to toss everything out to get 45 out, but that
won't do much. And there is so much to get done and now is the time to
get it done.


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:57 AM matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy all,
>
> First, I hope you are all well and finding things to celebrate in otherwise
> dark and trying times.
>
>  If like me you avoid preaching to the converted and refuse to waste time
> trying to convert those believers of bad faith, then you may have watched
> recent events with the feeling that you are on that bus with a mad driver
> and no way to stop it or get off. But perhaps it's time to be more vocal,
> not shouting, but something.
>
> Let me explain. We all know that Trump is very ignorant. I mean no one
> really believes that he wrote that Tweet about "when the looting
> starts...", remember he has his little Goebbles 2.0 behind him. The
> propaganda and actions are bothering me more and more. It's this
> authoritarian playbook that they are using. Can you think of a massive
> protest where state security forces were brought in from other regions to
> bust local heads? If you thought Tiananmen Square that's understandable but
> Trump and Barr did the same thing by using Texas prison guards to beat East
> coast protesters. Was that not noted in the media?
>
> If it were that one incident... but no. Now we also have the Antifa
> boogeyman being brought out. This is the same thing that was done in the
> 1920'S and 30'S. The media jumped on board and communists were seen as the
> threat. The reality is that fascists and their bedfellows killed more
> people than the communists. This is a narrative that must be checked before
> it gets further.
>
> And now the inverted red triangle. This is a bridge too far. Trump must be
> called what Robert Paxton saw him for and now Masha Geesen also recognises:
> he is a fascist. Let the facts talk.
>
> My fear is that as his situation gets worse and those that have tied their
> fates to his begin to worry, they will grow more desperate. "We will either
> be great victors or great criminals." They will either try to cancel the
> election or subvert or otherwise try to steal it as in the past.
>
> As the Lincoln Project says, it is time to choose the US or Trump. That
> simple.
>
> Signed
> Concerned Preacher, aka MC Otis
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