The Real Struggle
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
The
Real Struggle
"For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12
As the political circus plays itself out, thinking people
can see the psychopathy, mendacity and hypocrisy of this culture on full
display in living color. The crass quest
for power and the weaknesses and corruption of the American political system
are apparent to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. The campaigns
feature several distinct styles and approaches. For the Republicans except for Donald
Trump their approach is to maintain the status quo, to talk tough on foreign
policy to keep the military industrial complex humming along making record
profits off of the totally bogus War on Terror, to continue the failed trickle
down policies of Reagan and Bu$h II, the tax cuts and corporate welfare for the
rich while sawing away at social programs and the safety nets of the "New
Deal" and "Great Society".
Donald Trump exploded on the scene and upset the
Republican Party's apple cart using slogans like: "America doesn't win anymore", "we have
to negotiate smarter" and "make America
On the Democratic side of the coin we have Bernie Sanders
a Socialist who rails against income inequality, wealth disparities and corrupt
campaign financing against Hillary Clinton the personification of political opportunism, corruption and all
that ails this nation. Sanders' appeal is to young folks who more and more see
themselves as debt slaves with limited opportunities and possibilities for
their lives. Hillary Clinton appeals to older folks, the ubber rich and the
traditionalists within the Democratic Party. Wall Street, the Pharmaceutical
industry, the big insurance companies, international investment houses, the
bio-tech industry and military industrial complex all are for Hillary. Rank and
file Democrats too lazy to think for themselves, too brain dead to connect the
dots on how Bill and Hillary Clinton sold organized labor and American workers
out with their "international trade deals" like NAFTA and GATT, who
set up the machinery and laid the foundation for the mass incarceration of
Black and Brown people with their support for the anti-crime and anti-welfare
legislation and how the Clinton-Gore embrace of corporate fascism set the stage
for what was to come after the Clinton Presidency will go for the Hillary
Clinton okey-doke.
Senator Sander's is calling for a "political
revolution" by asking young people to sign up, vote and support the very
system doing them in! This system is too corrupt to be fixed by either
political party because they are the problem! Meanwhile Hillary Clinton is
scrambling to redefine her message and rebrand herself as a
"Progressive" as opposed to the crass opportunist, money grubbing, corporate
sycophant and warmonger she has been the past several years.
Trump poses a threat to the Republican oligarchs and they
are funneling mad money to take him down. He is being demonized as a racist,
demagogue and the New Hitler by the very political party made up of patriarchal
chauvinists known for their racial exclusion, whiteness, sexism, warmongering
and class warfare!? During the last presidential cycle their standard bearer
was Mitt Romney who was so out of touch with the common folks he couldn't tell us
how many houses he owned. Mitt Romney the man who made his fortune as a
corporate raider, plunderer criticizes Trump for not revealing his income tax
returns but Romney only reveal his a few weeks before the presidential election
in 2012. We can't make this stuff up, the hypocrisy is on display for the whole
world to see.
I point these things out to show just how deceitful and
corrupt the US US
Today the triplets of unrepentant racism, gross
materialism and hubristic military misadventure are metastasizing throughout
this nation far more aggressively than they were in 1967. In 1967 there was
organized and strident opposition to the ruling class' insanity. That level and
energy of resistance is lacking today. The ruling elites using their mind
control apparatus and mind entrainment technology have seduced us with their
fear mongering, their xenophobia and marginalization of criticism into
accepting economic apartheid, debt peonage, wage serfdom and imminent socio-economic
collapse. We can do better we have an obligation to do better!
The embers of resistance are flickering. The dynamic human
spirit abhors stultification. We have been DIVINELY designed to be expansive
and unstoppable. We cannot do it alone we need to come together. This is what
Occupy Wall Street, the original unco-opted Tea Party, the militia movements, the
original unfunded Black Lives Matter and the Trump and Sanders campaigns
reflect a desire for real change, to do and be better.
But it is not enough. Discontent and dissatisfaction are
only the catalysts. We have to move beyond slogans, rhetoric and protest to a
commitment to real change, a change of consciousness, values, behaviors and
action. We each have to know intuitively
we have intrinsic value and worth. We have to know what this means for us and
others. We have to see it in ourselves and each other, respect it nurture it
and encourage it in all of us, even those we differ with or may not like. This
is the beginning of a spiritual and psychological movement requiring a change
of mind a refocus on the important things self neighbor and the world. This
change will result in institutional changes and a new way of living. We can do
this.
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