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Vote to save our systems from rotting from within
Mary McBee
Sep. 1, 2024 6:00 am
Being social creatures, we have long come together into groups, these requiring various forms of community systems to survive.
However, over recent decades, our experiment with democracy in America has been on an alarming downhill slide. The competitive capitalist-based economy that we chose to implement within this democratic experiment has now been captured by a totally amoral system of corporations, predatory schemes designed to avoid taking responsibility for actions, avoid local community needs, avoid local, state, and federal regulations and taxes, and to amass wealth and limitless power to a chosen few at the top, no matter at what cost.
The results are an increasing display of decadence on many levels, most notably with inept, braggart, and unstable individuals using their wealth to rise into power positions, along with masses of misinformation being fed to citizens, all resulting in great fracturing and chaos within our country. This systemic rot from within has decimated our economy, our politics, and our social, educational, moral, medical, and environmental systems.
Due to our supposed human genius, our survival is now precariously and dangerously at risk, along with that of all life on this planet.
Vote. While it is still legal.
Mary McBee
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