Defending Democracy.

   

Trump once again is attempting a coup d'etat of American democracy. Trump, the Texas attorney general, and over 100 Congressional Republicans have signed a statement and lawsuit to try to stop the votes from many states sent to the Supreme Court. These reactionaries are not only motivated by greed, power, and hatred of democratic power. They are also motivated by racism, because the greatest demographic who voted against Trump during the 2020 election are black Americans (which is my ethnicity as I am a black person in America). Now, one person from Staten Island, NYC was arrested for making threats, because he was angry that Trump lost the election. One PA Democratic called this lawsuit seditious, and it is. For Trump and his allies to disregard the majority of Americans who voted him out of office is outright sedition. Trump has always been a traitor, and Ted Cruz is a coward. Cruz wants to be a lawyer in the Trump lawsuit, when Trump disrespected Cruz's wife, father, and children. Trump even accused his father of being involved in the JFK assassination. Every state and territory of America has already certified the election as a Biden victory. On January 20, 2020, there will be a new President and new Vice President. We still have to be vigilant to promote our rights. Trump has disrespected mail in ballots, defied court decisions that said that Biden won the election, and has habitually lied on voting rights. Therefore, we are done with the Trump administration.

 

Days ago, America sets a new record of the pandemic deaths. There are over 3,000 Americans who lost their lives from the virus today. This is one of the highest deaths of any day of any event in American history. The virus is harming rural hospitals. One hospital in the Southside of Chicago is fighting for its survival. Right now, a FDA panel decided to recommend the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine is projected to be shipped in the East Coast and the West Coast (plus across America) massively in a manner of days. Now, the state of Pennsylvania is holding test runs of mass vaccinations. Over 60 percent of Americans desire such a vaccine. I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime. This is just like 1968. 3,103 people died from the virus in America on Wednesday is just incalculable. It's wild, and it's hard to comprehend the pain of the many families who have lost loved ones. We should never be numb to this. One person in the White House is responsible for the response to this tragedy. Trump is completely silent. He is not leading. We have record cases of people with the virus too in America. It isn't just him responsible for policies done in dealing with this tragedy. It is a whole lost of people who believe in false theories and no stimulus than truth. They are just as much responsible for this crisis as the occupant in the White House.

 

We should always respect great black leadership. Yet, we shouldn't be naive about how some black people (being neoliberals) who are involved in some fake "wokeness." We know their types. Many of them exploit Blackness in order for them to support the current system filled with corporate power, Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Big Money interests. Many of them are right on voting rights, civil rights, and other matters. We are with them on those issues. Yet, they are silent on poverty, silent on exposing corporate power, and being very silent on exposing imperialism. You have to confront the military industrial complex if a solution is made. So, we believe in solidarity, honoring our identities, and believing in a just future. I love being Black, and part of that is desiring the human race to be free without compromising to the status quo. Part of that is also loving black people worldwide in a Pan-African unity.

One of the most important news is that when the eviction moratorium ends on December 31st, 2020, 40 million or more Americans face evictiona. This comes during a pandemic. Capitalist exploitation is indifferent to human suffering. That is why one encampment was recently cleared in Charlotte without housing or compensation to the homeless. It is illogical for state and local governments in America to break up tent cities when the eviction of more people could exist by the end of this year. Neoliberalism or centrism never worked, and that's proven by the current housing crisis. For decades, neoliberalism promotes gentrification, record money to the police, without a radical improvement of the quality of life of urban plus rural residents. Housing is a human right, and some folks ought to act like it. Congress can spend $740 billion per year on wars, but they refuse to send families $2000 a month to help them.

We face far right extremism who are part of the Trump cult. There reports nationwide of local officials being threatened by Trump supporters because Trump lost the election. In 2020 alone, The Wolverine militias in Michigan wanted to kidnap the Democratic Governor. Many Trump loyalists have harmed people, and some of them have been caught harassing another Michigan political leader. One Arizona Republican said that he is prepared to lose his life over this battle. Trump is silent on these threats. Also, we have people who don't agree with masks swarming the Idaho home of a Boise, Idaho member of the state Health board. This form of harassment is typical of many Trump supporters. One GOP official is scared that this person's house would be attacked by Trump supporters. The Trump supporter (who refuses to acknowledge Biden's election victory in 2020) claims to be a super patriot, but he or she is a traitor. They lecture us on laws, but they abhor the right to vote, the right to free speech that they don't like, and many of them love real racist Confederates.

 

 

By Timothy