Brazil saves Amazon Forest by VOTING
In US, Richest Man Alive drowns his new toy Twitter in HateWords
And Trump-Inspired Thug tries to Kidnap and Cripple Pelosi
VOTING CAN MATTER!
Brazil went through the agony of an elected fascist President who did his worst to subjugate the poor and destroy the Amazon Forest, the lungs of all life in/on Planet Earth.
But an alert and informed nation voted him out and voted in again a President who had tried to end poverty and protect the Amazon Forest.
In America, too, the People deposed a fascist President by VOTING. But his waste products have kept poisoning our body politick. On the same day that Musk took ownership of Twitter, dozens of former users who had been banned for spewing hate came back with “N---r” on their tweets and anti-Semitism on their tongues.
And on the same day, a man with a hammer smashed his way through a glass door into the Pelosis’ home, demanding of her 84-year-old husband “Where’s Nancy?” (She was in Washington DC). When the police arrived, he swung a hammer at the husband’s head, breaking his skull.
Then he told the police his plan had been to kidnap Speaker Pelosi, ask her a political question. If she answered ‘truthfully” he intended to spare her but if she “lied” to break her knee-caps so that she would have to enter the People’s House a cripple, a warning to all the Democrats.
Was this the madman craziness of a single frothing American? Not at all. Trump and his Trumpists spent years vilifying Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her in-box had dozens of death threats.
There are only two responses to these waste-products left dripping behind by those who vilify or demonize those who disagree with them, rather than explore the issues together. When an election is at hand, VOTE.
There is less than a week left to vote. Make a careful plan to vote. Ask every friend and family member to vote. Offer them a ride, a walking-companion. Afterward, invite them to a coffee, hot chocolate, a bagel-and-lox.
The second response? After the election, when the Supreme Court or Congress or President does something drastically sort-sighted, undertake a nonviolent act. From writing a letter to the editor, to gathering a dozen people to gently but firmly insist that Chase Bank or Vanguard shift its investing strategy from Big Oil to Neighborhood Solar Co-ops.
More in a few days about that. Right now, VOTE.
Photo: Mikhail Nilov