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!
The first part of a U.S. election mini-series.
‘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 Lincoln — The 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.
