Hypocrisy, Racism, War & Lies: Another Election Cycle, But Nothing Ever Changes.

‘Things can only get better,’ so says the song, except, that is, when they don’t! Welcome to the American election, 2024 folks!

Peter Winn-Brown
26 min readNov 4, 2024

The first part of a U.S. election mini-series.

Stark black & white image of the destruction in Lebanon American bombs have in the hands of the IDF.
A Beirut suburb lies in ruins. American tax dollars latest, but far from greatest, spend. An investment in the future or just more dead end dollars? Image from NYT by Ibrahim Amro at AFP-Getty images.

‘There is a judgment and a feeling against slavery in this nation, which cast at least a million and a half of votes. You cannot destroy that judgment and feeling — that sentiment — by breaking up the political organization which rallies around it. You can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into order in the face of your heaviest fire; but if you could, how much would you gain by forcing the sentiment which created it out of the peaceful channel of the ballot-box, into some other channel? What would that other channel probably be? Would the number of John Browns be lessened or enlarged by the operation?’

Abraham LincolnThe Cooper Union Address that almost certainly gained him the Republican nomination. This same logic could be applied to the use of force to solve political problems anywhere, including Israel’s use of might against Palestinians and the governments use of force to break up many pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.

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Peter Winn-Brown
Peter Winn-Brown

Written by Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.

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