During six days of the campaign, just before the election, the following add aired nearly six thousand times in 6 days at a cost of almost $20 million:
….a voice like something from a trailer from a horror movie intoned, over mug shots of dark skinned men and pictures of female victims, that these women were “bludgeoned, raped, strangled, stabbed, shot, and murdered.
-Fintan O’Toole, New York Review of Books
We, the American people had a choice:
Female vs. Male
Black vs. White
Younger vs.Old
Cop vs.Convicted Crook
Climate Healer vs. Climate denier
Someone who laughs vs. Someone who never laughs
Someone who smiles vs. Someone who smirks
Joy, Love and Hope vs. Hate and Fear
Nearly half of U.S. chose a Kleptocrat who is now hiring fellow oilgarchs and toadies to help him “remake” America. A Trojan Horse bringing in the tech bros and the wealthiest man on earth whose algorithms shape our screens and dreams and whose satellites also spy on us all the time and everywhere. We are now a nation too sick to acknowledge our sores.
The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Sanity just lost to fear and hate founded on lies and perpetrated by the greed and hubris of elite wealth. Let us hope it will not rest.
Be aware.
Fight nonviolently for what is true and what is just.