Created Equal

Humanity’s foibles pretty much boil down to what the American forefathers tried to remedy in the Declaration of Independence by declaring that all men are created equal and have inalienable rights issued by God. Yet throughout human history, the powerful have thumbed their noses at that premise in their lust of more power, control, and money. Here in America, Project 2025 authors and followers, many of the rich elite of our modern day, the controllers of technology and the economy, the sycophants who gladly worship and kiss the ring of a faux-king, all of them do not believe the equality premise and have fought hard and often to establish systems of control whereby our founding principles would not apply.

That struggle in America continues, continues with progressions towards “a more perfect union” that often experience setbacks opposed to democracy. The current manifestation of the opposition to equality, diversity, and inclusion of all men is personified in the existence of Draco II, all those who follow and agree with his beliefs, those who support elitism and purity of culture and race, those who are his sycophants and puppeteers, those believing in slavery, and those normalizing lies for gain.

Draco II knows that as long as there is a free press, freedom of speech, freedoms protected by our Constitution, that he and the like-minded cannot ultimately win control, the truth of their corruption and abuses becoming exposed. The battle to squelch free speech, though, is in full swing; good people must rise up and state emphatically at the polls that they believe that “democracy is a pretty darn good thing”, thereby depowering elitism’s supporters. The people must take control of democracy back from democracy-gone-awry, but especially from those that believe that money buys truth, favor, control: laws should apply equally to all, even POTUS.

The American representative democracy experiment cannot be allowed to fail: voluntary consent to be governed must prevail. Therefore, either vote for Democrats (at this point, the least harmful of our two “imposed” governance choices) so that they can be reformed by ALL, or stay home: a vote for the present manifestation of conservatism in the form of MAGA et al must be defeated; an un-hijacked conservatism must be reborn.

For too long now, a deranged pure-capitalist economic system has perpetuated the belief that humanity can and should “dominate” Nature, that men are smart enough (especially now with aid of AI) to know how things really work and therefore should control creation, that money- power speaks the loudest, and every American’s goal should be to “join the rich” in pursuit of mass consumption’s (faux) happiness. All of that is wrong and is leading to ecocide of Earth and destruction of much of life, including the possible self-extinction of Homo sapiens. Humanity’s path is to steward Nature and custodially act in her best interest, which will ensure mutually symbiotic relationships of all of life that eventually cements “peace on earth”. Peace: you know a better goal? Equality, yes; Kings, no.

Bob Bates Tullahoma