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Eloquent reminder from Erica Payne:
Consider this: We are the world’s only superpower. We have 309 million citizens and control 3.79 million square miles of land. At $14.3 trillion, we have the world’s largest economy. We make up two-fifths of the world’s military spending. It is virtually impossible for our enemies to beat us physically. Even if by some unimaginable turn of events terrorists were able to destroy every building in the country, the citizens who remained would just move to West Texas, stick a flag in the sand while singing God Bless America at the top of their lungs and start to rebuild. We’re just like that, we Americans.
So since you can’t destroy the land that is America; in order to destroy us, you must kill the idea that is America – the principles that brought us together in the first place and that bind us now, even when we fall short of realizing them. Our worst enemies don’t want our body. They want our soul. Like the devil, the only way they can get it is if we give it to them. Unfortunately, politicians are racing to sign the dotted line.
Consider this your morning affirmation.
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That’s a very good piece – I’d have missed it if you hadn’t shared it here. Thank you.
It’s not true that “you can’t destroy the land that is America.” In fact, the politicians and oligarchs about whom Payne writes see America as merely a land to be mined of its mineral wealth. The people are irrelevant, since we are no longer a gold mine for profits from consumer spending. we’ve been mined into poverty, no longer considered useful as slave-wage-earners. This is why the fracking, coal mining, tar sands in Utah, BP-protecting response to the oil spew, etc. This is undoubtedly what one aspect of the Cheney energy task force was about: mining the US full speed ahead for energy extraction without regard to the environment or public safety.
Demonizing an ethnic group just goes hand in glove with fascism, and is a great media diversion from the active dismantling of the rule of law that is being done by the politicians and public servants.