Was America Ever Great?
“No refuge could save the hireling or slave from the fear of the flight and gloom of the grave!” The hireling, or the indentured servant, and the slave, wanted to run, but if they got caught, they’d get killed! Does anyone know what song these are lyrics belong to? The Star-Spangled Banner! It is part of the original version. It is in the forgotten verses. These verses were part of the original release of the song when Woodrow Wilson made The Star-Spangled Banner America’s national Anthem in 1916. This song was written by the poet Francis Scott Key in 1812 and this specific stanza, along with others, was not removed until 1930! It was The Star-Spangled Banner that the NFL players were protesting when they took a knee in the early season of 2016. They were protesting the racism that still exists to this day in America. America was not founded on freedom! It was founded on colonialism! What America is struggling with right now is the collapse of colonialism and the collapse of the theory of race! Anyone can google The Forgotten Verses of The Star-Spangled Banner and these lyrics will be right there plainly for them to read!
Every two years in America I hear this big lie. The biggest lie I have ever heard, and it is a lie that all Americans seem to buy into; this lie is something which both sides of this currently dysfunctional two-party system we have participate in equally: “America was founded on Freedom!” It is this lie that has led to the current debacle we are facing in this country with Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It is a lie we are told over and over that has led to a stalemate in the House with a Republican Party that can’t govern, but it is an attractive lie because it plays to all our egos as Americans. Yet, this lie is why a bigot in the 21st century can run for a second time as president and say, while facing countless criminal charges and indictments, in both state and federal jurisdiction all of this country, “Make America Great Again!” It is this lie that allows him to even run when he tried to overthrow an election with his condoning of the secessionists who stormed the capital screaming, “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” on January 6th of 2021! It is this lie that constantly keeps us thinking that there is such thing as “race” in this country of the “Great Melting Pot,” when anthropologists disproved any theory of race years ago, and it is this lie that, combined with relative and social media, leading to the current obtuse perversion of the Freedom of Speech, that could be our collapse!
To have a true understanding of what America was founded on we have to look back to the Europeans who settled the continent. The Europeans who settled the Americas were colonialists. They weren’t seeking freedom, they were seeking land, resources, and profit. What the colonialists did when they settled a land was killed the leaders, destroyed all records, took the people’s gods as devils, killed or enslaved the people, banished the use of their own language and any cultural principles so they could completely erase any sense of history or culture the indigenous people might have; therefore, it wasn’t only a physical genocide, but a cultural one as well. The colonialists were about White Supremacy! Sure, they were about freedom, but only their own! The colonialists did not even take indigenous people as human! That is how they could justify all of this in their minds!
When we think of evil in the modern day, one of the main things most people think about were the Nazis of World War II. Hitler killed 6 million Jews. The colonialists that settled the Americas killed anywhere from 20 to 100 million Native Americans that were on the land of the North American Continent alone! Granted a lot of them died because of the diseases that were brought over because they had no previous exposure or immunity to them, but they still conquered and exterminated basically all of the ones that were left! They took all of their resources, and as I stated, banished the use of their language and culture as well. I don’t see much of a difference between the Nazis and the Forefathers of America. They both functioned off of the premise of a Superior White Race, yet when we are told of our Forefathers, we are constantly told about “freedom,” and that is what we are all supposed to stand for in the current day. That premise of freedom, blessed by our Forefathers, is nothing but a delusion! It was White Supremacy! Nothing more!
When we think of Robert E Lee, who was the head of the South during the Civil War in America, we think of how he was a secessionist, who was a White Supremacist, and a slave owner. We think of a man who fought for the right for a man to own another man. Specifically, a White Man to own Africans, but what was George Washington? George Washington was a secessionist, who was a White Supremacist, and a slave owner! What is the difference? As Michelle Obama put it “a house built by slaves” when she was talking of the White House. Yet we see one of these leaders in history as a symbol of freedom encrowned on our currency and Robert E Lee is taken as his exact opposite. It is a ridiculous delusion that as Americans we all cling to, and every four years every presidential candidate constantly shouts and sings from the Atlantic, to the Rocky’s, to the Pacific “we were founded on freedom! America the great! Freedom! We are Americans! The Greatest of the Great!” This is always part of the message that any candidate, no matter what their party, preaches to their crowds if they are going to be elected in any way!
One of the biggest misconceptions about Lincoln was that he was an abolitionist. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. Lincoln was against slavery for the same reason the Koch Brothers are against the theory of global warming: Money. David and Charles Koch have funded lots of objective research to try and falsify the global warming hypothesis, they have put all kinds of money into trying to prove the theory of global warming false, and they can’t do it. David and Charles Koch know what they are doing. They are very smart men who got the help of Mitch McConnell to take over the Judiciary branch with a super majority on the Supreme Court of Justices. These current justices only work to weaken laws and regulations set by congress so larger corporations can make more money. Laws that are meant to protect us all! The Koch Brothers know that temperatures are going to rise to the point where most life is destroyed, and they do not care! They’d rather have the money! This is the same reason Lincoln was against slavery. Slavery is bad for capitalism! Slavery itself was ruining the economy. With slavery, employees aren’t paid, so they cannot spend money, so there isn’t any circulation of the currency. With no circulation of currency and profit, this consolidates wealth to the top few, and if too much wealth is consolidated a capitalistic economy will suffer because capitalism is based on consumption and the circulation of currency. When only a few people have the money, there is no consumption, and the money does not circulate! America is a free market capitalistic economy; therefore, slavery is bad. That is why Lincoln was a capitalist, and Lincoln wanted to send the Africans back to Africa once they were freed! This is also why monopolies are supposedly outlawed in America, which was what caused the Great Depression. I say supposedly because with the merging of the big banks, and such digital currencies as Visa Mastercard, there are several monopolies in America currently, like Amazon, which was one company getting two-thirds of the Christmas sales post Covid! How can that not be a monopoly? Monopolies, along with our current tax code, are the main reasons we have the greatest income inequality since the Great Depression! Lincoln was not an abolitionist. The abolitionists were people like Thoreau.
Thoreau thought it was immoral to own another person. Lincoln was against slavery because of money, nothing more. Lincoln was also terrible to the remaining Native population of the land. The Amendments that came after the Civil War were the only way to guarantee that slavery wouldn’t return. Slavery was bad for the white population of the North. If it was about abolition, and how slavery was immoral in its very nature, then Jim Crow and Separate but “Equal” would have never been the Law of the Land. It was the Jim Crow of the South that the Nazi admired and studied!
It is important to recognize what America is currently struggling with and how basically nobody, who is an American, on either side of the aisle, can acknowledge any of these as facts if they are in elected office. At least not to the masses. This is the True American dilemma that we are blindly facing today. What I have come to believe is that most people, no matter who they are, have no desire for the truth. What most people want is to know that what they believe is true. Especially if it is something that makes people feel better about themself. This is all social media does with systems like Facebook anyway. Ego is tied to greatness of one person comparing themselves to another, and as the whole rest of the world agrees: “Americans are egomaniacs!” We as Americans want to know that what we have spent our whole lives believing has value, that we are “The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.” It feels good to do that, and it feels good to have wonderful things to believe in, especially about oneself and the communities to which we belong. That, in itself, gives us a sense of self-worth, and self-worth is something all humans crave. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said quite well, “the most basic human desire is a need of importance,” and I am shouting out a warning to all that this false belief and false sense of self-worth, combined with the perversion of the Freedom of Speech in social media, could lead to our collapse!
It feels good to believe in this myth that we were somehow founded on the principles of freedom and justice. We want to know that when we are voting, we are voting for the right person who has the right principles. It is always attractive to believe in ourselves, and to believe and vote for someone who believes in us, but that is nothing but ego when it comes to America; so, I agree with Putin on one premise and one premise only: “Americans are egomaniacs.” As Americans we have a false sense of self, and this false sense of self is why people in this country are scared of the demographical changes that are happening.
Change is inevitable. Change is the only thing which remains constant in this empirical world we all live in. It is also something most humans struggle with accepting because if everything is constantly changing, as a society we could collapse if we can’t be honest with ourselves and acknowledge the truth. The struggle we are going through as a country right now is the same struggle that we’ve always gone through. It is the struggle of race, money, and power!
With this current struggle, lots of Americans have a fear about the white population shrinking, and it is shrinking because white people aren’t procreating in the numbers it would take to sustain their white population. A large portion of the voting population in America are white people who don’t like the demographical changes, but as I stated change is the only thing which remains constant, and with these demographic changes come a fear, a fear of other people. People who might seem different in superficial ways, but it is these superficial differences they refuse to reject because we all rely on our first impressions for some aspect of the truth.
People tell themselves they want the truth, but what they want is to know that what they believe is true, which is all pride is and is the reason why we all fight! If we all looked for the truth, be you a Democrat or a Republican, and actually acknowledge what we were founded on, we wouldn’t have this need to fulfill our egos and always shout about how great we are with the lie of freedom. We weren’t even set up as, nor are we currently, a democracy. We were set up as a constitutional republic. Remember the right to vote isn’t in the Constitution. Our Forefathers only wanted white male property owners to vote. That’s an oligarchy. Which, with the disbursement of wealth in our present day, and how expensive it is just to get an education, is what we are stuck with at the current moment. That is what our outdated electoral college system is about, and it was this outdated electoral college that made it so Trump fell 3 million votes short and still won the election the first time! How is that a democracy? Bush lost the popular vote to Gore as well!
Just realize “Make America Great Again” is all about denying what we were truly founded on. “Make America Great Again” is all about increasing the ethical and monetary inequalities that have shaped our history. “Make America Great Again” is all about getting our mindsets back to that state of delusion that there is such a thing as race and keeping it there. If people truly wanted the truth, a lot of the answers are out there, but in order for anyone to want the truth they have to admit when they don’t know something or are wrong, and if any American wants the truth they can explore the internet with such questions as: “is there such a thing as race?”
Some objective information is out there for any of us to plainly see, and to anyone who googles that question it clearly shows that race is something which biologists and anthropologists don’t even believe exists. 99.9% of all human DNA is identical according to the Genome News Network. What makes our differences, that we all see and judge each other on, is less than a 0.1% genetic difference. Such things as the color of the epidermis, which is nothing but the melanin in your skin. This melanin comes from the sunlight and where each of our ancestors were for a period of time in human history. It is the amount of vitamin D in our epidermis that we are still judging each other on in the current day.
Sure, there is such a thing as ethnicity. There is such a thing as culture. If we wanted what is true, we be able to see that and have respect for each other, but realize the theory of race is based on the premise that if an African and a European procreate, a mule is created. The original theory of race is that there is enough difference that if a European and an African had an offspring, then that offspring is considered a mule. That is the original theory of race. Anyone can see in the modern day that this is a ridiculous thing to believe in if we could just try to accept and get to know each other for who we truly are, but it is the validation of our old beliefs that encourages these conflicts that we’re stuck in and facing today as Americans. It is this that allows Americans to say such a thing as “Make America Great Again,” and vote for me because “if they are prosecuting me, they are prosecuting you!” As Trump has so perfectly convinced his voters in this 2024 Election!
Proof that people have no desire for truth is in this fantasy that is shouted to the crowds in America every two years in this country, and it is very productive at getting voters to come to the voting booths, but as the Nazi Joseph Goebbels said quite well when listening to Winston Churchill once speak to his crowd, “when you lie, make it big, make it simple, continue to say it and they will believe it!” that is what “I am going to build a wall and Mexico will pay for it” is! That is what “I am going to give the biggest tax cut since Reagan, and it will pay for itself” is! Those two campaign promises had no chance of ever coming true! They were nothing but simple lies that got Trump elected! Just like the lies “I am our retribution!” that Trump is shouting to his followers in 2023, so he can get their small donations to pay his legal bills! Mexico did not pay for any portion of the wall Trump built, and no tax cut in US History has ever paid for itself! Trump, when he was in office, told over 22,000 false or misleading statements! Any of his followers should be able to see that! But they don’t care because they have no desire for the truth! He validates their misconceptions of the theory of race that so many still cling to and gives them their economic issues as well.
The ousted congressman George Santos is a perfect reflection of where the Republican Party is to this day, and where America is as a whole when it comes to us wanting the Truth. The fact that someone who lied to his voters about everything could even get elected, which is what both George Santos and Donald Trump perfected, and we as Americans elected them!!
Reagan also came out with one of the biggest lies in modern political history just to cut social programs. He came up with the lie of the “Welfare Queen.” The “Welfare Queen” was a political lie that got Reagan so he could get a majority of the American voters to approve him cutting social programs for the poor! It was about White Resentment, and only White Resentment, that got the approval of most of America to cut programs that dramatically improved their own lives, and because these people didn’t like the thought of any minority getting their hard-earned tax dollars, they were willing to take tax cut after tax cut for the top 1% of income earners right out of their Social Security and Medicare Benefits! Reagan was able to cut social programs that benefitted the majority of the population by targeting predominantly African American mothers on social programs in his speeches, as if being on welfare is some type of life of luxury. Reagan was a Southern Democrat before he was a Republican. It was LBJ and the Civil Rights Act that made Reagan switch political parties, but Ronald Reagan was originally a Southern Democrat, which was at one time synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan!
I was on SSDI for ten years myself, and I was on it because I had no other choice. On SSDI you can’t have anything except basic necessities. I could have a side job where I could make 1,000.00 dollars a month, but in the year 2010 that meant I made only 24,000.00 dollars a year on my current SSDI income. I already made a lot more than most people on SSDI with just that check, and I thought it was terrible! If I made any more, I would have lost my medical benefits which I needed to survive. If I accepted any of my inheritance from my grandparents, I would have been taken off of SSDI. My medical bills were just too high. I couldn’t even eat a decent meal unless someone bought it for me. I couldn’t afford anything! It was about survival! Nothing more! And I came from privilege! To say that welfare is a life of luxury is completely evil and only a way to redistribute wealth back to the top 1% of income earners. The people who don’t even need it! As soon as I was able to get off of SSDI, I did, and I would argue, without the privilege I was born into I never would have! Welfare is a terrible way of life! Especially in the ghettos and crime filled areas where I, and other people who are on that government assistance, lived! Racism is also something that runs both ways and lots of Americans who are minorities don’t think they can be racists!
I was living in predominantly African American neighborhoods in San Francisco, and I never experienced any form of racism until I moved to the most liberal city in America and felt the prejudice of them against me. It was amazing how many times I was mugged because they thought I had money. I didn’t have any! Enough to pay rent and that was about it! Just like them, and that rent was garnished out of my SSDI check every month! But because of their clinging to the theory of race and how they identify themselves, and the way they judged me in superficial ways, just like White People in this country judged them, I got mugged over and over and over just walking home to my residential hotel on 6th and Mission Street called the Seneca. I still remember how it said “do not drink the water” all over the hallway walls, and I had to bath in it, and brush my teeth in it just like they did, and they all took me as a privileged person that they resented when I was walking home at night, which is why I got attacked so many times!
Another US president was Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson, the head of the Democratic Party, the President on our twenty-dollar bill, was all about the genocide of the remaining Native Americans. Andrew Jackson disobeyed the ruling of the Supreme Court when they said we could not take their land west of the Mississippi River, and Andrew Jackson got the White Men to slaughter the remaining Native Americans that were still in the area after the Louisiana Purchase, which was called The Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was even about slaughtering all the buffalo and driving the hurds off cliffs because they saw how dependent the Native Population was on the buffalo! Cultural genocide as well!
Presidents like, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), who came well after the Civil War and was a Democrat like Andrew Jackson, refused to support an anti-lynching bill that Eleanor, his wife, wanted because he didn’t want to lose the Southern White Democratic Vote. This country has racism in its “genes,” and throughout the legislation of the modern day. Remember FDR was all about eugenics just like Hitler was! Eugenics was about Superior White Genomes being bred and creating more “perfect” humans, which only lead to severe birth defects, so it was thrown out a bit after the theory was invented, but the Nazis admired the Segregated South, and we take them as the symbol of evil! We inspired the Nazis!
This was my main problem with the Rachel Maddow Podcast “Ultra.” I only listened to the first recording, but I found it very disingenuous and misleading. She talks about it in her shows live on MSNBC too. She says that for some reason, without any explanation, there were Americans that wanted to be Nazis after World War II was over. She doesn’t give any reason why? Nazis in America wanted to do things like have a rigged jury. Well, the rigged juries were what the Segregated South of America was about when Jim Crow was established! That is why the Nazi studied us! Any white men that lynched an African would have a jury of white peers, and they would never face any consequences because the jurors would always rule “not guilty” no matter how horrific the lynching was! That is what Eleanor Roosevelt wanted to abolish and her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said no! FDR was not willing to lose the White Southern Democratic Vote of the South and he knew he would have if he approved the legislation that his wife wanted!
The Jim Crow South is described perfectly in the most amazing piece of literature that I have ever read: Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I remember first reading this piece of literature in 2012 before I completed my BA in philosophy, but rereading years later, with a full knowledge of all Dr. King’s references I found it completely amazing and mind boggling because he knew he was going to be killed someday! He knew that by standing up for what he thought was right and abolishing the “Separate but Equal” delusion that the Jim Crow South of America was founded on, that he would be killed, and it did not stop Dr. King!
All of Dr. King’s references in this letter are Neoplatonic and he does them from memory! Such quotes as “an unjust law is no law at all” by Saint Augustine, and when he compares himself, and what he is doing, to Plato’s Apology and Socrates “drinking the Hemlock” is what told me he was a True Martyr if there ever was one.
Anyone who knows anything about Plato’s Apology, knows that it is not an apology. It was the ruling class of Athens that held the trial of Socrates, and they tell Socrates that, if he makes an apology and changes his ways, he can go free. Well, Socrates gives a speech, and in that speech, he is basically saying “I didn’t do anything wrong. I am not the one that needs to apologize.” Socrates goes onto say why don’t you look at yourselves and see what it is that you are doing wrong because “I am speaking the truth even though it goes against what you believe about the Gods of the City of Athens!” So, the ruling class holds Socrates in prison, which is where Dr. King wrote this letter in Birmingham, and it is in prison that Socrates voluntarily drinks the poisonous hemlock that kills himself in order for him to hold onto, and stand up for, what is true! This is what shocked me the most! Dr. King was stating in this letter that just like Socrates he is willing to die for what is true!
Reading Letters from Birmingham Jail was completely terrifying when he describes plight of the African American in the South with the articulation of the word “wait,” and when Dr. King wrote, “For years I have heard the word ‘wait.’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This ‘wait’ has almost always meant ‘never.’ It has a tranquilizing thalidomide effect, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed frustration.”
Dr. King goes on to describe the Jim Crow South as:
“But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son asking in agonizing pathos, ‘Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?’; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading ‘white’ and ‘colored’; when your first name becomes ‘nigger’ and your middle name becomes ‘boy’ (however old you are) and your last name becomes ‘John,’ and when your wife and mother are never given the respected title ‘Mrs.’; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of ‘nobodyness’ — then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.”
This is why Dr. King did not find any other alternative than to drink the “hemlock” himself so to say. Dr. King realized he needed to stand up for what was true above all else, so that Dr. King could get the elected officials to reflect on how they ruled the City of Birmingham. It was the Jim Crow South that FDR was not willing to change in any way because he did not want to lose that White Southern Democratic Vote! The Vote of the Ku Klux Klan!
I was listening to another Rachel Maddow show on November 13th of 2023, and I found it very interesting and compelling but, when I did my research, a bit misleading. Rachel Maddow started with a story on that Monday night about a bishop that was removed by Pope Francis. That Bishop, Joseph Strickland, was a very conservative individual who was put there by Pope Benedict. Rachel Maddow made it seem like Joseph Strickland was removed because he was such a bigot that was calling and encouraging racism and the current secessionist movement in America. Like Pope Francis had some major problem with his political views and the way Joseph Strickland was opposing Biden, but if you investigate that story, Joseph Strickland kept saying how he was against Pope Francis, which I would take as his main reason for being removed, which is what the Vatican stated. As a Bishop you are trained to know and to obey the word of the current Pope. The word of the Pope is the word of God here on earth! Sure, Pope Francis probably didn’t want him encouraging violence and secessionism either, but anyone should know that they can’t do speak out against the Pope if they are a Bishop! To imply the other concept I find as misleading, and Rachel Maddow also goes on in that very broadcast to state that America has been close to these times before when there was this movement in our country to join Hitler and the Nazi movement in Germany in World War II! It is very disingenuous and misleading as well! It is misleading because FDR was about Supremacy just like Hitler was! That the Nazis studied us! The Swastika was just another way of romanticizing White Power here in America! The White Power that this country was founded on!
Another reporter I have enjoyed listening to is Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC. I seem to really enjoy a lot of the political views of these ex-Republicans who all left the party because of Donald Trump. Such Republicans as Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, John Heilemann, Bill Crystal, Michael Steele, and the list goes on. Nicolle Wallace, like Rachel Maddow, are two very intelligent women whom I have enjoyed listening to their coverage and points of view on the current stage of American Politics, but I don’t see either of them telling the complete truth. Nicolle Wallace just acts like Donald Trump popped up out of nowhere in the Republican Party, took it over, and here we are! Neither Nicolle Wallace, nor Rachel Maddow ever get into the true facts of: why we are where we are in this country today? I would argue Donald Trump is just as much Nicolle Wallace’s fault as any other modern Republican who helped the Reagan and Bush economic plans, which she was a big part of.
The one Promise Trump did keep, which is what his election is truly about, is that he did not cut the Social Security and Medicare Benefits that people like Nicolle Wallace, and all the Republicans who have left the party, wanted him to cut! Donald Trump was the first Republican to give these white voters both their economic issues and their social issues! Sure, Reagan was a bigot too! But that lie of the Welfare Queen hurt the majority of his voters as well! Reagan gave them the social issues and told them that it was the African American Mother’s who could not support their own children that were running off with their people’s tax dollars! It was a racist campaign from the beginning and the deficit boomed under Reagan, and both Bush’s, and rose faster under Donald Trump than anyone! The deficit boomed the most under Trump because he did not take the tax cut to those billionaires out of Social Security or Medicare just like Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republican establishment wanted him too! “Make America Great Again” is just as much of a backlash to Reaganomics as it is to the current demographic changes in America!
If anyone listened to the debates for the 2024 Republican Party Primary, they would hear how each one of the other candidates running for the Republican nomination want to do something like “privatize” Social Security and Medicare, which none of the Trump Voters are wanting in any way! They know that cuts to these programs make their lives, especially their retirements, much, much more difficult because they have already felt it! Donald Trump has lied about his taxes his whole life, and just took out one loan to cover another, lying on the tax returns and to the banks about his net worth, so he could live a rich and famous lifestyle, he truly did not care about how anything he wanted was not being paid for! That is what the Civil Suit of him no longer being able to have his business license in the State of New York is about! He is a Fraud! It has been proven in Court already! But as long as Trump retains his image about being a “billionaire” he is happy! Which is why Trump didn’t care about the amounts he was adding to the National Deficit!
For these ex-Republican politicians, that are now reporters, not to acknowledge that the populist movement that backs Donald Trump, is just as much a backlash to the Republican Party Establishment, as it is to the Democratic Party, they are in denial too! Trump told that lie about a tax cut paying for itself! It didn’t and it couldn’t! Mitch McConnell wanted to pay for it through cuts to Social Security and Trump wouldn’t let him! What is going on in America is what has always gone on in America: a struggle between race, money and power! That is what we were founded on, and is what colonialism was all about from the beginning! The fact that we as Americans we can’t even acknowledge it is where the true struggle comes in!
I also have a big problem with Lawrence O’Donnell encouraging racial tensions in America when it targets the police force we well. I’ve enjoyed listing to O’Donnell, but when he targets the police force in America, and encourages Americans not to trust them, I don’t see it being any more productive than what Trump is trying to accomplish. I like Biden’s approach to police brutality. “Nobody likes a bad cop. Not even a good cop likes a bad cop.” Something lots of Americans did not acknowledge when they watched the live trial of the police officer who suffocated George Floyd, is that Floyd also did something he should not have done. Floyd was at fault too. He broke the law, and Floyd resisted arrest!
Living in the Seneca Residential Hotel on 6th and Mission Street in San Francisco from the years 1999 to 2003. It was by far one of the worst places I ever lived, and on that street, anyone saw the drugs, crime and poverty up close. When I first got to that street, I would walk outside, either day or night and it was just a crowd of people. I took a step, and someone would offer me crack! I took another step someone would offer me crack! I saw people get arrested all the time, and I saw what happened when people resisted arrest and when they peacefully surrendered. The police were taken as the enemy for a good reason. They were the descendants of slaves, so they were born into poverty; with that poverty came crime and violence, and the discrimination of this culture they were born into. The African American population of this country is trained to fear the police for this very reason, and when they fear them, they fight them violently, so they responded in violence. It was this violence that Dr. King was making sure not to replicate himself. That is why at the end of The Letter from Birmingham Jail Dr. King writes “and I pray for your forgiveness,” not because he did anything wrong, because Dr. King did not! Dr. King wants them to forgive him because he did not want to perpetuate the cycle of anger and violence. Dr. King was about loving his enemy and the first true Christian to practice it completely, which is why is says in that letter “it has taken Christianity two thousand years to get to where it is today” and he is talking about truly practicing what Christ taught and loving his enemy.
What O’Donnell achieves by constantly shouting out how much police mistreat and brutalize African Americans just increases the racial anger and hatred. Even O’Donnell doesn’t focus on is what Nicolle Wallace refuses to acknowledge as well! Police Brutality is an economic issue about money and power, and if we are going to get over it in any way, we need more social programs to help lift them out of poverty! Those tax cuts to the 1% that Nicolle Wallace is all about! Police Brutality is a side effect of our Segregated South and the slavery and discrimination this country was founded on! We need to get these people opportunities and education to lift them out of poverty! I am not condoning the brutal murder of George Floyd either. That trial made me cry watching it live, and that cop should have been sent to jail for what he did! What I am speaking out against is the fact that both sides need to get past the theory of race and realize race is just a false premise we still classify ourselves with on our government forms! We need to be able to tax rich people and reinvest in the all the programs Ronald Reagan cut! Money and Power! Because nothing ever did “Trickle Down!” Or as the Greatest of all Saints Pseudo-Dionysius writes On the Divine Names, “by aspiring to the nonexistent, they aspire to the evil.” There is no such thing as race!
If we are going to survive as a country, we need to get past relative media that does nothing but entertain us. Too many people are just seeking political views that validate what they already believe! We need to educate ourselves on what we truly stem from, acknowledge it and work to correct it. We need to invest in the poor of this country because disproportionately, they are still minorities that are only at this income status due to the persecution of their ancestors. We need to get past and just disregard the faulty American Ego completely.
When I watched Fox News, I was amazed at how entertaining their hosts are. Before Tucker Carlson was fired for lying to their viewers through the Dominion Lawsuit, I used to just listen to him to see what the people I disagree with in this country believe, and I saw how entertaining he was. I also see, post Covid, just walking around San Francisco, lots more minorities than before. There is a huge Asian and Southeastern Asian population that has moved into this city at rates I have never been familiar with. For anyone who takes race as something that still exists, then I could see how scared they might be! But race doesn’t exist! and this is what we need to see as Americans! All of us!
The Theory of Race is nothing but complete insanity! The current rise of antisemitism around the globe is also shouted by racial minorities such as Kanye West on Twitter! It is also amazing to see psychotic alliances of these people that still cling to this ridiculous belief system! You have Neo-Nazis in this country forming alliances with Al-Qaeda! That should tell you how crazy their belief systems are, and anyone one wondering if a minority can show racism just look to what Kanye West was posting, and how Elon Musk backed it all! I don’t think anyone who is truly a Nazi would be in favor of Kanye West either if they truly held to their superiority of the White Race!
What we are facing here in America: the collapse of colonialism and the collapse of the theory of race, is also happening globally. Remember, every boundary that a country takes as a boundary is a colonial boundary! People were all conquered and killed in the name of Christ for the purposes of money and power! But countries where women are getting more rights, the population is naturally decreasing. A decrease in global population is necessary if we are all going to survive, and with this decrease in population comes the elimination of the theory of race. The reason why we need a decrease in population is because we are running out of resources, and we are creating too much pollution. In fifty years, there will be no more fish left in the ocean at the rate we are going. I don’t even see the fish lasting that long with the warming of the ocean temperatures which causes a bleaching of the coral reefs. If the coral dies the fish die! Not to mention the continents of plastic conglomerating in the Pacific and the Atlantic!
We are still putting out too much carbon in our atmosphere and that is why all the oil companies showed up to the first Global Warming Summit in 2023 because they wanted to get their say on any legislation that might affect them financially. They don’t care! They want the money even if it kills us all!
I would argue a perfect contrast to what is happening in America with the shrinking of the White Race is what happened in China with the one child policy. In China from the years 1980 to 2016, because of China’s overpopulation, couples could only have one kid. So, when a female was born, because they wanted to pass on the male name of their ancestors, and each family could only have one child, they would do things like drown the girl in a tub, put it in a basket and let it drift down a river, or just set her in a basket on a street corner. It was all about male dominance and male masculinity. If we contrast that with what is happening in America, then we can see a much more peaceful way to bring down global populations, which is necessary for us all to survive, is female equality. Remember humans have sex .1% of the time for procreation. That means one out of a thousand the times the average homosapien has sex for the purpose of making a baby. I would argue that is why the female anchors on Fox News are so hypersexual, is because humans sexualize everything even when we claim it is sin! Our closest relative is the bonobo chimpanzee. With the bonobo every time there is a conflict, be it a male or a female, the way they resolve it is to have sex. Having sex is how they solve their distribution of food and resources. The bonobo is called the making love species, and we are 98.7% both behaviorally and genetically like them. We are nothing but rational primates, and our biggest difference between us and the bonobo is our ability to use language and rationalize and we are male dominated. Sexually we are somewhere in between gorillas and bonobos. Gorillas are polygamists and for the bonobos the female is dominant.
A good book to read to understand human nature and its violence, as well as where we stem from sexually is Robert Fagles edition of The Iliad. In The Iliad every warrior has multiple wives, and each warrior has a male lover. The whole book is about a war based on Achilles’ wife Briseis, but Achilles isn’t willing to go to battle for his wife, because if he does, he knows it is written in the stars that he will die! And he doesn’t want to die! But when Hector kills Patroclus, who is Achilles brother in arms and male lover, who does go to war, then Achilles is willing to go kill Hector because he loves Patroclus so much, even though it is written in the stars that he will die in battle himself! We don’t stem from monogamy! We stem from polygamy! With polygamy naturally comes homosexuality and bisexuality! We see it in all other primates and polygamy is still practiced all over the world! One of my greatest arguments that most humans have no desire for the truth, is how people define themselves sexually, even when they behave differently. I can’t count how many of my gay male friends tell me they have sex with “straight” married men in San Francisco all the time! But if people admit it, they feel judged! It is an empirical fact of nature that when we isolate men with men and women with women, they naturally show homosexual tendencies. That is what all the jokes of ships and jail cells are about!
But to contrast what is happening here in America with what happened in China with the One Child Policy, when women get more rights populations naturally go down. This is the only thing the abortion fight is truly about in America is the shrinking of the “White Race.” If it was about life and Christianity and what Christ truly taught about loving your neighbor and not hurting anyone even if they hurt you, there would not be one Christian in favor of the 2nd Amendment! The Law of Love and the 2nd Amendment contradict each other! If it was about what Christ truly taught, then these fundamentalist “Christians” of the modern era would practice what Dr. King taught! Every time I tell a Christian that the 2nd Amendment and the Law of Love aren’t compatible, they won’t acknowledge it! I told that once to a Catholic Priest and he just looked at me with a stupid look of confusion!
Remember the globe hit 8 billion people even during Covid! Mother nature gave us Covid for one reason: too many people! The rising of viruses was also predicted with the warming of global temperatures, and we are getting a lot more than just Covid. Monkey Pox is traveling outside of tropical areas because it is getting warmer. Monkey Pox has existed for years but never traveled outside of tropical areas because the temperature was too cool for it to exist outside of a rainforest, but not anymore! Leprosy is now in Florida. I am more worried about another pandemic popping up soon! There is no proof that Covid was an error with a lab experiment from China! If that was the case, I am sure China would have been willing to vaccinate their whole population because they would have had the vaccines for them already made and they didn’t! China was on lockdown for longer than anyone else! That was political rumor! Nothing more!
Another amazing book I read was Light of the Stars Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth, written by Adam Frank. It is about Fermi’s Paradox. Fermi’s Paradox is a scientific theory that the reason no alien life has ever contacted Earth is that all intelligent life ends up destroying itself through the distortion of its atmosphere with fossil fuels.
One of the key aspects of this book is the rate at which humanity procreates, but the one thing this book does not offer as a solution is female equality. Adam Frank just talks about how if humanity keeps procreating at these ridiculous levels, then in a hundred years or so there won’t be any space left for any of us because of it! Frank claims there won’t be any room left on Earth at the rates we are reproducing at, but there is a solution to this dilemma that is not just facing America, but the entire world: female equality!
I can see humanity surviving but there are two crucial things that needs to happen: populations need to come down so we can consume less, and people have to get past this ridiculous theory of race because genetically, behaviorally and biologically speaking there is no such thing as race! The best way for populations to come down, that is nonviolent, is female equality, we see it here in America, and female equality needs to happen all over the world if we are all going to survive, and if we survive it is only through a melding of all humanity into a true “melting pot” which is what is happening here in America and what all this ridiculous fear is about. We are a global economy anyways, as well as the US Dollar being the reserve currency of the world; so, the true solution is education! Prove to people there is no such thing as race and give women autonomy over their bodies all over the globe! Such places as Iran, and in the tribes of Africa! India just surpassed China with its population! We need to evolve into some form of monogamous relationships and give women complete autonomy over their bodies! This will solve it all! The crimes against humanity didn’t only happen here in America they have plagued mankind from the beginning of history. Sure, Robert Fagles’ translation of The Iliad is mythology, but it shows us the war and conflict humanity has always been in and where we are headed because of it all! The Iliad is all about fate, and at one time male dominance and the injustices we did to each other might have served us, but they no longer do, and we need to see that or else the world will parish just like Achilles!
I would argue with female equality there would be more peaceful solutions to a lot of the global conflict with more female leadership. There wouldn’t be as many John McCains that want America to go to battle with everyone all over the world and remember the overwhelming majority of all sociopaths are men! With male dominance comes more conflict and we have seen that throughout human history! Female equality, not female dominance, but female equality I would argue could even lead to more peaceful solutions to such places as the Middle-East! It seems like to me that as long as Netanyahu is able to stay in power and empty the Gaza Strip he doesn’t care who dies!
We all have the same two problems: ignorance and understanding. We need to accept each other for who we are and realize that if we are going to survive it is about overcoming these current difficulties that face us not just in America, but around the Globe! I look to that Letters from Birmingham Jail to see that there can be a peaceful solution to the qualms and quarrels of humanity we just need completely female equality and to get past this ridiculous theory of race that was proven false so long ago!