From what I see on the news, read on social media and in the papers, and from what I hear on the radio...
America is becoming everything we fought until the mid 1930's.
Fascists who bullied, built up their military might to force their will, silenced critics, took away votes, scapegoated segments of their population, duped the population into blaming and hating "those people", labeled them as a "drain" on our society, put people into camps and worked them to death for nothing, and denied people their rights, armed everyone within the nation to do acts of hatred, and invaded other nations... all a reaction to heightened and manufactured FEAR by the diabolical few who were the architects of their house of power and wealth built on hatred... and we fought them.
The robber barons of industry who worked people to death for less than subsistence-level wages, put children to work in factories, controlled assets, made people dependent upon them for their unsustainable wages AND goods through their company stores, fired people who were sick, refused to treat people who were sick, kept segments of the population down for their own gain, and controlled the government that was put in place to safeguard the rights of ALL, had laws written that gave them unchecked advantage, took un-regulated natural resources and fought limits on them, polluted the air, the water and the land at will, hired private security thugs to intimidate and sometimes kill people who stood up to them, claimed divine right to unlimited wealth and divine judgment on those who would have justice, equity and equality... and we fought them, too.
And we were the "good guys" for doing so. And the prosperity of the nation grew because people had a voice and voted, made a living wage and thrived, and more and more folks stood for justice, equity and equality. Even the most evil wrongs of past generations were being challenged and fought, and we moved to write laws to protect the most vulnerable and those who had been most exploited... and then came 1981... and those with the most power and wealth wanted a return to "the good old days"... and the new era of unchecked greed and unchallenged power began...
Now, led by those who stand to gain more, though they already control 85% of the nation's and world's wealth... those who have MANUFACTURED financial crises and MILITARY ones, and who fuel the flames of fear in the hearts of folk to manipulate them into giving THEM more power and control (which they will use to hurt the population), over the whole nation, which they will abuse to get still more power and wealth... mean-spirited, ruthless, bigoted, manipulative, exploitative, greedy, immoral and unconscionable... the nation is becoming more like them... gullibly duped into believing the fearful rhetoric, the scapegoating tactics, the blaming of the victims and the false justification of doing WHATEVER they can and want to do, to whomever they want to do it, tearing down the DEMOCRACY in the process, because the easily duped believe they will be admitted into this very exclusive club... and they will not... they will be grist for the mill, lubrication for the wheels of injustice, inequity and inequality... trampled and then pulverized under the feet of those who already have most of the power and wealth... but they cannot see that, because they have "bought" what they have been sold, and have BECOME the ruthless, mean-spirited, greedy, hateful minions of the fascist robber barons of today...
the cycle continues...
What will be the price to the world THIS TIME? ... another world depression and world war?
WHEN will we learn to FIGHT THIS at its beginning? FIGHT IT with critical thinking and teaching and writing and speaking? FIGHT IT with rallying and demonstrating and demanding and voting?
ENOUGH blood has been shed to feed their gods at the altar of WAR! ENOUGH starvation, famine, disease has been waged on some so that they may have MORE!
ENOUGH! NO MORE!
Pastor Jamie
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