The Holiday Respite Is Over, Now What
The Holiday Respite Is Over, Now What?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The Fourth of July Holiday is over, people took off from work, they had their family gatherings their barbecues, pool parties and communities, towns and municipalities held their parades, festivities and parties, so now what? Folks have or they are in the process of returning home getting back into their normal routines. The supreme irony is most Americans have no real idea what the holiday supposedly stands for, or most importantly how the “freedoms and rights” this country boasts so much about are being whittled away and usurped by government and corporate collusion on a daily basis!
Freedom of speech, civil open public debate, freedom of assembly, the right to petition the government and protest are being snatched away with each passing day/year. Yet only a few are making a fuss about it. Censorship, suppression, intimidation and force are being used by the government and its corporate partners to undermine the so called democratic ideals and freedoms this nation boasts and brags so much about. Incivility, hostility, ideological division, racial and ethnic discord are driving a deepening wedge among the populous.
The American Empire is morphing from the United States into the divided states and divided consciousness. The fact of the matter is, this nation was forged in internecine warfare among Europeans, their genocide against the indigenous inhabitants, the bondage and forced enslavement of Europeans and Africans and the harsh exploitation of subsequent immigrants by the ruling class and plutocrats. The hypocrisy and mendacity of America are overwhelming in scope and intensity. But the truth is coming to light as the consequences of the actions and policies of this government and their corporate associates become recognized by more and more people.
Special interests groups and powerful oligarchs are making a mockery of what this country says it stands for and few people are willing to address this situation. Few are willing to put down their hot dogs, hamburgers and barbecue to even talk about the direction this nation is heading and the subsequent consequences we will experience if these patterns continue.
This holiday offers a brief respite from the daily grind and the stresses and tension of socially engineered changes we’ve enduring the past five years. We are living in a period of mass gas lighting, mass deception and Orwellian doublespeak. For example Donald Trump supports blatant genocide in Gaza, he participated in unlawful and unprovoked attacks on Iran a nation that has done the US or its neighbors no harm in since the Iraq-Iran war decades ago and Trump helps Israel a renegade settler nation that has consistently waged war and expropriated land from the surrounding nations. They have done this from its very inception as a carved out apartheid state in the misnamed “Middle East”.
But Trump campaigned as the peace candidate! And the US government says it is doing this in the name of peace and saying it with a straight face! Just like they said this was the land of the free and home of the brave while enslaving Blacks, exterminating and debasing the indigenous inhabitants.
Look at a map of Israel in 1948 then look at a map of all the territory this rogue nation has stolen and expropriated since then. Its neighbors did not approve or acquiesce the taking of their lands, the taking was done by violence and force, often backed by the US and its Western allies! Yet the US is an active partner in the theft, displacement, genocide and disruption of a whole region in support of its “ally” The US is supporting the Zionist state as it does there what the Europeans did in this hemisphere and elsewhere to the indigenous people they encountered. History is repeating itself once again.
The holiday weekend is over, it’s back to the regular grind: the gaslighting, the lies, the doublespeak, the forever wars, the reckless spending, the ridiculous bombast, the cronyism and grift. This is our norm now. Where do we go from here?
The American Empire is in rapid decline, the moral bankruptcy, the social, ideological and economic divide, the widening wealth gaps, the animus, nihilism, depression and incivility are all symptoms; a manifestation of the rot that is metastasizing throughout the nation eroding what little stability is left.
The thing is, we don’t have to go out like this, we can still pull up, we can still decide to manifest redemption and forge a renaissance; but we have to really really want it for all of us, not just a few the majority! The choice is up to us if we don’t do it no one will.
posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 9:40 AM
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