Landmines WiIll Just Make Us Fight Harder
After the impeachment vote, it's a brave new world now. It feels less like America and more like Brazzaville in the Congo. Less like America and more like the jungle. This is what we woke up to yesterday morning and every morning now. This is who we are as a country. This is who we're in bed with. Power in America, obedient to money and obscene. A land where the powerful and ruthless make the rules to suit their convenience.
On the same day we vote to kill the Republic, America moves to bring back landmines. Landmines.
This is who we are now: a country where more landmines and crippled children are acceptable. An unchecked executive and a defunct constitution.
Why? Follow the money. Why kill the Constitution? Follow the money. You can see clearly unadulterated greed behind the vote to exonerate President Trump and the move to bring back landmines. And make groundwater pollution okay. And cut Medicaid. And deny the science explaining the changing climate.
It's all about the power of money that trumps the welfare of the people and the planet.
The facts lined up without a doubt to support impeachment and accountability. And yet, as Senator Marco Rubio implied in his weak attempt to explain his vote, it was not in the interest of the ruling class and the minions that support it to remove a sitting president despite the stench of his actions to rig the next election. So now we are a hairline away from a dictator and the forces of money that line up in his support. Who can doubt that they are ready to take the next step to total power? Who will stand up against the landmines? Follow the calculus of the Nazi regime of fear and division. Except in America's case you can add in the distraction and anesthesia of popular culture. It's the Super Bowl today. But you won't see any ads for landmines or groundwater pollution. Or President-for-Life Donald Trump. Not yet.
I feel the way Puritans must have felt in 1600 in England, like this place is no longer liveable, except there's nowhere to sail to. This was the experiment, supposed to be the exemplar to the world. No longer the case when you're trying to bring back landmines and polluted water. The old order is over, but we're here to stay. We're not sailing anywhere. The landmines will just make us fight harder.
Does an election fix this? I don't know. The stain is pretty deep. I don't know if an electoral two-party system works if one of the parties is ready to sabotage the constitutional order to stay in power.
I don't know what comes next after the Republic is dead, but whatever the future brings, whoever brings it must feel the same revulsion at landmines and this face as I do.
On the same day we vote to kill the Republic, America moves to bring back landmines. Landmines.
This is who we are now: a country where more landmines and crippled children are acceptable. An unchecked executive and a defunct constitution.
Why? Follow the money. Why kill the Constitution? Follow the money. You can see clearly unadulterated greed behind the vote to exonerate President Trump and the move to bring back landmines. And make groundwater pollution okay. And cut Medicaid. And deny the science explaining the changing climate.
It's all about the power of money that trumps the welfare of the people and the planet.
The facts lined up without a doubt to support impeachment and accountability. And yet, as Senator Marco Rubio implied in his weak attempt to explain his vote, it was not in the interest of the ruling class and the minions that support it to remove a sitting president despite the stench of his actions to rig the next election. So now we are a hairline away from a dictator and the forces of money that line up in his support. Who can doubt that they are ready to take the next step to total power? Who will stand up against the landmines? Follow the calculus of the Nazi regime of fear and division. Except in America's case you can add in the distraction and anesthesia of popular culture. It's the Super Bowl today. But you won't see any ads for landmines or groundwater pollution. Or President-for-Life Donald Trump. Not yet.
I feel the way Puritans must have felt in 1600 in England, like this place is no longer liveable, except there's nowhere to sail to. This was the experiment, supposed to be the exemplar to the world. No longer the case when you're trying to bring back landmines and polluted water. The old order is over, but we're here to stay. We're not sailing anywhere. The landmines will just make us fight harder.
Does an election fix this? I don't know. The stain is pretty deep. I don't know if an electoral two-party system works if one of the parties is ready to sabotage the constitutional order to stay in power.
I don't know what comes next after the Republic is dead, but whatever the future brings, whoever brings it must feel the same revulsion at landmines and this face as I do.
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