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Choosing Between Imperfect Paths: Why Voting Matters More Than Ever
We need to pause to go vote this week as if our life depends on it
American founders fought against the dictatorship of being under the elite of England. However, they trade the English elite for a new American elite. They were a set of wealthy people who enslaved and indentured people, used Protestantism as a controlling mechanism, and controlled the three pillars of government (Executive, aka President; Legislative, aka Senate and Congress; and Judicial, aka Supreme and State Courts) through the electoral college. The system they set up had the most upset in that structure during the 1960s, a fallout from the Second World War where the Nazis tried to follow America, but to the extreme.
During the 1960s, black and brown people and women fought for and got the right to vote. In many cases, all peoples or different races, using newfound education and realizing from WWII the universal suffering that hate and division could bring, collaborated to make sure everyone got these rights.
So, here we are today, looking at a future where a few white elite people minority with wealth and power concentrated in their hands are fighting to return to those days when they had absolute power, and the middle class was reduced to mindless consumers…
