I tire of Draco-II. I tire of the attacks on true democracy – the current politics of oligarchy-economics. I tire of the selfishness and struggle for power, money, and the rule of the human ego. Fortunately, the arch of progress is undaunted; it has its ups and downs, yet hate, bigotry and ignorance will eventually be overcome. Draco-II’s lust for power and money will be disempowered, not just because it manifests humanity’s worst side, but also because living by the ego ensures a demise ignorantly self-devised. The powers of control and money are true powers, but must be transfi gured to serve God and life, not man.

Do you spend your day just flowing through business-as-usual, not paying attention or oblivious to what is really happening around you, living outside of the present moment, not in contact with your inner being and its supporting consciousness? Most people do. I do way too much. In doing so, we allow the power of MAGA, Project 2025, mass consumerism and material extraction to dominate Nature, unsustainably promoting perpetual material growth on a finite planet, as if nothing out of the ordinary were happening, as if what was unfolding was God’s plan instead of the result of a spiritually ignorant humanity’s ego: it is a recipe for disaster; history proved that point time and time again in each collapsed civilization.

If you are just part of the status quo crowd, part of the herd just unconsciously chewing its cud through consumer life, you are enabling bad things to happen to humanity and Nature and are acquiescing to the push by some forces opposing a more perfect existence for life on earth. And yes, pain and suffering and evil will still be here with us for a while, but we have to purposefully disempower anti-evolutionary aspects of humanity wherever they arise and hopefully, maybe over generations, replace the current modus operandi with a more holistically- based path where we are proper custodians and stewards of Nature’s desires, not just a specie that has ignorantly learned how to dominate life’s kin on this small globe dotting infinity. Happily, there are alternative ways of living upon Earth in positive communion with life and other humans: we just have to care about that more than money, building or retaining wealth, power and control, and stroking our human ego.

Therefore, an important first step: do not vote Republican at this next election. The conservative Republican party is now defunct and has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Draco-II mob family. Many good conservatives were lied to, cast their lot with Draco-II believing his pain relief schemes, and now need to redeem themselves by voting for allegiances to things life-first instead of man-first which can help the process of doing what is best for the planet – our home, our only lifesupport system – automatically doing what is best for all.

Vote no to MAGA! No to Kings! No to dictators! Yes to planet and people first!

Bob Bates

Tullahoma