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The 2024 presidential elections are fast approaching.
Immigration, asylees, and the border wall are front and center in the national spotlight. With cries of an “invasion by criminals, murderers and rapists” from “sh*t hole countries,” former president Trump is using immigration as a political football to score points with his political base and as a battering ram to drive his Democratic opponents further to the right. Claiming immigrants come to steal jobs, benefits, and scarce housing, he adds that Democrats are illegally registering them to vote. That is a false claim, repeated ad nauseum by governors Abbott of Texas, and DeSantis of Florida. Project 2025 lays the framework for the Scapegoating and attacks on Immigrants.
We are in the middle of a propaganda war of lies. It is a war waged to instill fear in the American people so as to jade their hearts and confuse their minds, but not to save them. Rather it is to save the private property system of corporate owners and billionaires by dividing us and confusing us about who the real enemy is, what the real sources of the problem are and how we need to unite to resolve the issue once and for all.
The corporate billionaires couldn’t care lesswhether a U.S.-born, debt-ridden college graduate, recently unemployed from Silicon Valley dies homeless on the street, hounded by California governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order preventing camping, or a Guatemalan mother and her two children drown at the border in Eagle Pass, Texas in full view of National Guard and Border Patrol agents. With Artificial Intelligence, private equity, tax breaks for billionaires and soaring profits for surveillance and military hardware, etc. used on the Border and in the wars in Ukraine and against the Palestinian people – all those deaths are just the cost of doing business.
The corporate class funds both the Republican and Democratic parties, because in the end, they control both. We get blows from the right and sucker punches from the left (Democrats). Other electoral parties that have worked to be included are being blocked and do not have sufficient visibility.
FIGHT FOR NEEDS UNITES OUR CLASS
What matters to the corporate class is a convenient scapegoat, someone to blame.We see that class for what it is – and it does not want that. As the American Dream becomes increasingly unattainable for many working people, the corporate class through its think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 and its stooges and villains like Stephen Miller and Donald Trump and others play the race and ethnic card to blame other victims of their rapacious policies – NAFTA that displaced over 2 million Mexican peasant farmers, climate change disasters that devastated farmers in the increasingly unstable Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, U.S. meddling in elections in Honduras and Haiti, sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba, just to name a few.
Demand basic needs.The lowered standard of living, lowered life expectancy, devastation and violence seen in developing countries such as Mexico, Pinochet’s Chile, the Contra War, the drug wars in Colombia, Central America and Haiti are already becoming a reality here in the United States. As the little democracy we have left gets eroded, it is becoming increasingly clear that full-blown fascism – the brutal suppression by the ruling class awaits all of us unless we wake up, see beyond our differences and the lies and stand up for class brothers and sisters. We need to have a party that obligates the government to meet our basic needs and forces the billionaires to pay their fair share.
It is all of us or none of us. Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for Hitler’s Germany said, “a lie often repeated becomes the truth.”Don’t fall victim to their division and lies. We must unmask the present-day liars and cheats and expose them for what they are.
Our country and the world stand at a crossroads. Humanity has the potential for economic security and abundance. A community of the people, by the people and for the people, where children can grow in peace, is possible as never before. Or, if we do nothing, we face increasingly unlivable conditions caused by private ownership of the wealth that human labor has created.
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Published on September 29, 2024
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