I wonder if anyone on the right has the guts to stand up and defend the republic. “Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians…. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”
Don’t worry, stop voting. Convince the rest of us there’s nothing abnormal going on here. Explain how Trump’s masterplan to hand the USA over to oil barons who will heroically fight inflation is a sane way to fix things on a boiling biosphere. If your mind is now saying wildfires in the Arctic and everywhere else are caused by Antifa arsonists sponsored by the Globalists you’ve been brainwashed like the populace in They Live (an 80’s sci-fi horror comedy about our species being manipulated through senseless consumption to transform the atmosphere for nasty alien invaders).
Since at least the 70’s, industry and individuals fully understood enormous petro farts would heat up and foul Earth. Nearly every child knows pollution stinks yet we all feel helpless, individually and collectively, remaining part of the machine to one degree or another as the temperature rises. In the twenty-first century both the ruling and struggling classes share in the good fortune of witnessing a great burning begin during The Sixth Extinction on this water planet turning acidic.
Naysayers are welcome to explain the disappearance of all those insects that once splattered windshields and headlights so much during an evening drive you had to stop to clear the view even with the wipers working. Crying Fake News and crocodile tears ain’t gonna put the brakes on the accelerating species extinction rate but by all means, tell me how it really is from the driver’s seat of your gas-powered A/C transport running in a garage completely closed off to the outside world because you can’t handle the truth is bigger than your truth.
Denying clear and present dangers threatening life as we know it is naïvely nihilistic though I’ll continue to consider anything or anyone that could prove our dire global ecology is a false flag operation or hopeless. I still follow foes in these mythical times to see if they are on to something real or remain hooked on deception. “Next, we will end the ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars that is fueling the inflation crisis… and we will not allow it to be spent on the meaningless Green New Scam… We have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country—we as a nation will make a fortune with oil and gas… and lower the cost of energy—we will DRILL, BABY, DRILL”.
Public spending is not the only player in the inflation game and arguably one of the smaller contenders on a loaded field. It’s true that increasing production lowers inflation on products in the short-term though there are economic downsides to that approach. I just might applaud Trump if he nationalized oil and gas reserves as he almost says in this speech. Imagine the possibilities. Enriching every citizen equally as well as sensibly reinvesting some of the profits into safe alternative energy sources that are feasible, maybe start building modern rail systems and other advancements for an American Dream like drinking tap water without worry.
Fossil fuels are finite resources. These energy sources will dry up after eventually being hoarded by the ones with guns in a darkening road ahead. Do you sincerely believe it’s good to make pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth the driving factors behind our demands for Earth’s multi-faceted natural assets or should we try to choose a different path, one with virtue?
Humility, charity, chastity, patience, temperance, kindness, diligence are prescribed by Christianity while The Seven Grandfather Teachings recommend love, respect, bravery, truth, honesty, humility, and wisdom to guide the Anishinaabe long before Monotheism took root. Every culture seems to share some similar values in their faiths throughout history.
The Petroleum Period has brought many great conveniences and joys and abilities to humankind that could end abruptly within The Anthropocene Age. I pray we can adapt.
For the love of God, humanity, sanity, and the future of everyone’s kids: do your own research, dig up facts, avoid dieting on opinions alone (no matter how righteous & sweet they seem to you) comprehend an opponent’s view, be open to all news, be aware, read history, read fiction, read science fiction, read science, read fantasy, read horror, read comics, read poets, read The Holy Book(s) as you wish.
Nobody should force their beliefs on you though humankind is much better off believing beyond the self.
Communion, continual learning, and compassion are not for everyone. Egotists and sociopaths have just as much a right to exist and speak as anyone else but that doesn’t mean the rest of us should empower them too much or look the other way when they go wrong.
Stop hitting the snooze bar. It’s getting late. Time to friggin’ wake up and speak up. In this dominion the world’s never black and white, we all have good and bad in us. Watch out for the ones who deny this universal truth, especially to themselves.
Try to think outside the memes.
Each and every one of us has the power to combat authoritarianism rising during desperate times as flames, floods, feuds, and famine’s shadow grow. Where people feel shame in their hearts and direct anger and fears once more upon the Outsider while struggling under financial woes with homelessness at one’s door, terrible job prospects, low wages, high “Inflation, remember, it’s called a country buster. You can go back to Germany from 100 years ago…To all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected, abandoned and left behind, you will be forgotten no longer. We will press forward, and together, we will win, win, win.
Win, win, win, win, win, win.
Nothing will sway us. Nothing will slow us. And no one will ever stop us… we had that horrible, horrible result that we’ll never let happen again, the election result. We’re never going to let that happen again. They used Covid to cheat. You’re never going to let it happen again.”
Jesus Christ
Millions died from Covid. Billions didn’t. For some weird reason those who get infected from this coronavirus experience a huge range of reactions which is novel like a Stephen King yarn.
Just like the Spanish Flu that also killed millions globally over a century ago there was/remains divisions and anger in society over mandatory masking and the shutting down of gathering places. Unlike the Spanish Flu a cooped up population had the internet filled with corporate and other interests pushing a division.
One side believes official peer-reviewed studies from large data bases are trustworthy, showing vaccinations help save and improve lives yet remain an imperfect tool with occasional harsh side-effects (that are officially acknowleged including rare fatalities) to combat a changing contagion that’s proven to be far more crippling and deadly than a shot from the doctor but nowhere as bad as the bubonic plague despite the panic in the airwaves.
My heart goes out to families who were badly hurt during Covid and not simply by disease. Decent people lost their jobs, businesses, homes, and dreams while the big boys blossomed under lockdown measures. Feeling ignored by the establishment; large numbers rejected recognized experts, strongly believing instead in renegades of medicine, personal experiences, anecdotal affirmation, edited evidence, online tales proving lockdowns and laws were part of a fascist venture that was thwarted by not following public health mandates during a global pandemic hoax. More and more are wary of a modern Lügenpresse, distrusting anything that isn’t found on right-wing platforms which is the mainstream media these days according to the ratings.
In my tv pod free world most of the temporary rules made sense though I recognize(d) some regulations or decisions from officials were heartless and wrong in the big picture. I too see how transnational corporations and shareholders made sick profits from a terrible event. Just like before Covid. Just like now.
I worry no more about the coronavirus these days than cancer or getting in a bad car accident. I’ll continue to take precautions like wearing a seatbelt even though it could trap me underwater in a freak accident. There’s always a chance of dying horribly but contrary to many declarations I see no real proof of widespread death or injury from taking Covid-19 vaccines in a fake outbreak just as I see no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 USA Presidential race.
By many accounts we have a drunk Rudy Giuliani to thank for proposing the election was stolen the night Trump lost. All evidence and investigation shows the 2020 American election results had no deceit going on other than a handful of voters who were mostly Republicans cheating a system where liberals can also do wrong.
Democracy is an incredibly strong and wondrous creature yet fragile enough to need constant care and attention. Liberty is a beautiful and vital beast that can turn lethal in a breath of time.
Millions upon millions Enemies of the State were systematically annihilated by real human demons. Nazis first slandered then imprisoned, starved, tortured, and murdered Jews, Communists, Socialists, Democrats, Unpatriotic Artists, Intellectuals, Homosexuals, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah Witnesses followed by a cruel wave of other so-called Undesirables alongside untold scores of butchered babies, children, teenagers, adults, and seniors sacrificed at the altar of totalitarianism “bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart.”
{Out of context quotes from Donald J. Trump July, 2024}
Mark Kirkwood Callingham is a semi-retired dad who works for a faith-based homeless shelter in downtown Ottawa. He can be reached at MoneyWithMorals.org which is basically a democratic plan for everyday people from everywhere to debate, design, and elevate a practical, peaceful evolution of our dying economic system before it kills us all.
