IS THERE A "CIVIL WAR ELECTION" TAKING PLACE ON NOVEMBER 8TH? IN IRAN? IN THE USA? BLUE V. GREY? OR IN 2022 - BLUE V. RIGHTWING RED? GO VOTE - SAVE DEMOCRACY.... AGAIN.

 

TIME MAGAZINE:  October 24, 2022: “The View”. Page 25:

“THE WOMEN OF IRAN SPEAK”

Time Magazine presented this article in “THE VIEW” section this week. As an uprising sweeps across Iran – led by women and those men who support their campaign for freedom - grows and attracts a violent response from the Ayatollah and his henchmen, I see a shocking similarity between last-century Iran and today’s USA. Here, in part, is the front page of the article cited above…

“In a country where a man’s voice has historically been louder, the women of Iran now lead the fight for change… change has been supercharged by the country’s fearless women and girls calling for individual, social, civil, and economic reforms.”                 (Tara Kangarlou, author.)

Sound strangely familiar? Through the late 1800s, have property-owning white men in the US been in charge casting votes, making decisions, and far louder than women who could not vote? We are two weeks away from making a choice regarding a woman’s Freedom to Choose and a boatload of other free choice issues – economic, educational, civil and voting rights, and equal opportunity. THINK ABOUT IT – whether our democracy will function as “the shining city on the hill” as described by President Ronald Regan. Is this a war between Lords and Serfs? Rich and Poor? Patricians and Plebians? Corporatists and working families? Which is Rightwing Red and who is Blue fighting for freedom and equality? 

STAND UP! SPEAK OUT!

Progress has been made steadily over centuries and decades – abolition of slavery; opening the doors of democracy to those of color and to female citizens as well; expanding educational opportunity, unemployment benefits, food access, Social Security for seniors, healthcare via Medicare, Medicaid, and Kid Care.  We have expanded civil rights and a variety of freedoms including freedom to love and marry who you wish, and freedom of choice for women – especially in cases of rape, incest, and the health of the mother. We have been in a forward “march” to freedom – from FDR, to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the Halls of Congress.  Quite the adventure in Democracy!

ARE BURKAS NEXT? MARCH BACKWARD?

Then – from Gingrich to the Donald – an effort to march BACKWARD to the days of the past. Grab power by whatever means, apply the painful tools to dismantle it all – Acts of Congress; erase regulations or refuse to enforce the adopted rules though in place; load the federal courts with ultra-right conservative judges who swear that they will drag us back into the past with the “Contract on America”, “Jim Crow” and, later, the MAGA lunacy. Resist and challenge election outcomes, stop voting reform, increase corporate profits by cutting their taxes and celebrating profits, oppose any increase in the minimum wage are all designed to inflate wealth deflate working families. Pick the pockets of the middle class and those of modest income while stocks rise and bonuses flow up – not down. Now… why did I begin with the Women of Iran?

Last summer, the US Supreme Court led the confederate “charge” backward! They “erased” a woman’s right to choose under Roe v. Wade some 50 years ago, eliminating a woman’s Freedom of Choice. Justice Thomas, Roberts, and Alito were joined by three recent appointees from the “Orange Clockwork” Donald – a complete misogynistic narcissist using fraud and lies to become an American Autocrat modeled on Russia’s Autocrat Putin and Dictator Stalin, and Dictator Kim Jong-un of Korea. THIS MUST STOP! The celebration of our Democracy… our want for freedom and liberty, making our own decisions regarding ourselves and our future… must drive the effort to SAVE OUR DEMOCRCY!  The future is in your hands… and the hands of your friends and family. Stand up! Speak Out! Go Vote!  If you give up, we lose our freedoms and our democracy. If you STAND AND FIGHT…. ENGAGE… AND WORK FOR THOSE CANDIDATES TO STAND UP FOR US.  GO AND VOTE – November 8th.

If we save ourselves from an impending MAGA disaster… if we vote in legions to advance and protect our Democracy… and if we - and those that we support - win the election, the Time Magazine headline of the November 14^th Issue may be:

THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE SPOKEN!