One of the regions that consistently needs a lot of work in my weekly PWRs in recent years is the USA.
That has come about partly because of an accumulation of problems, but mainly because of the risks to democracy, freedom, and human rights in the USA and elsewhere that is in the lying, manipulative, fascist, authoritarian, hate-filled, rapist Trump.
Anyone who thinks Trump could be re-elected without a collapse of international order, spread of war, genocides, famine, and other human rights problems, and a rapid acceleration of the climate crisis is wrong, amathiac, and anti-spiritual.
If you care about the genocide in Palestine, or the war in Ukraine, or the unacknowledged suffering in Sudan and other places, you MUST ensure (by non-violent, legal, BPM means ONLY) Trump is not re-elected, or allowed to seize power, as that would ensure NOTHING could be done about any of those situations - for many years, not just four, as Trump may then end the electoral cycle in the USA.
Those groups who have withdrawn their support for Harris because of her flawed, limited understanding of history and that she would fail to properly address one of the greatest human rights catastrophes since World War Two are correct in their assessment, and utterly, utterly WRONG in their actions.
Ensuring Trump is not re-elected HAS to be the major priority of all BPM people in, near, or affected by or affecting this planet and its many sentient beings - not re-elected and not able to seize power.
(And the cowardice of a major US newspaper shows just how far it has fallen since the 1970s, and is an example of what NOT to do if you actually want to protect democracy.)
Because if he is able to do either of those things, we’re in the same situation that we were in the 1930s, and a nuclear world war plus climate crisis will see very few humans or other life forms survive ...
The risks are well described in these two videos, the second of which is about an example of Trump’s rich, greedy, selfish, self centred, hate-filled, amathiac supporters:
- “The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes”, from the LegalEagle channel https://youtu.be/6bTpbDL5dcg
- “Elon Musk Is A Threat To Democracy” https://youtu.be/SbYeTdz_JTc (and has been connecting with Putin!)
- “The Strongman Fantasy (text and audio)” https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy-text-and-audio “And Dictatorship in Real Life”
PS - see also the following, by Robert Reich, which has more on Trump’s supporters:
- “How the hell can the race be tied?” https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-hell-can-they-be-tied “Two weeks before an election in which America should be sending Trump home (and then to jail), he and Harris are in a statistical tie in the battleground states.”
and
- “What Vice President Henry Wallace knew about American fascism and can tell us about Trump” https://robertreich.substack.com/p/henry-wallace-and-american-fascism “His words are even more relevant today than they were in 1944”
- “Cowardice and intimidation at the Washington Post and L.A. Times” https://robertreich.substack.com/p/cowardice-and-intimidation-at-the “Their billionaire owners are Trump enablers”
and also:
- “Obeying in advance” https://snyder.substack.com/p/obeying-in-advance “Media billionaires ask for tyranny”
- “N_ z_s are Funding YouTubers to Spread Pseudoscience” https://youtu.be/iRtG4xqyuTc?si=YzD0qlpHIBde-gpp
Also, it seems to me that, while uncorrected lies to manipulate fears (i.e., fascist techniques) as discussed above are a key problem, so too is simple misogyny - misogyny built by millennia of so much active, endemic patriarchal social conditioning/engineering (some by women trapped in a fawning response) that trying to stop that is wrongly deemed to be that. See:
- “Kamala Harris has a problem with men. Will misogyny cost her the election?” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/20/kamala-harris-has-a-problem-with-men-will-misogyny-cost-her-the-election
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