November is going to be here before you know it. What happens in November? Just an election that may change the course of our Democracy or if there will still be a democracy. There are two choices as I see it. We can continue to grow as a democracy and be an inspiration to the world or we can continue to spiral downhill to a type of American Apartheid where people with money control the government through the suppression of the majority. Sound harsh doesn’t it, suppression of the majority. I don’t know what else to call it. For about the next eight months I will be writing a lot about the upcoming election and what it is going to mean to the future of our country but I need your help. I need more people to write and work to ensure that our democracy survives. If you don’t have the words yourself use mine. I won’t care. The message is more important than the messenger. Share your thoughts and beliefs not only to people that agree with you but also people that don’t. I find it hard to believe that there are not enough patriots out there to save our democracy. We just have to work to ensure that they know that their voices will be heard.

I always write that we need to treat every election as a referendum for Democracy and our Constitution against Fascism and American Apartheid. We must unite against the racism and bigotry that the Republicans bring to the table. I know that sound pretty harsh too. Is every Republican a racist? No! Does every Republican stand in solidarity with racism and I will say yes! To me it appears that Racism is now part of the Republican Party platform along with the promotion of violence. They have made no qualms about what they want to accomplish with gerrymandering. Voter suppression and racism go hand in hand and gerrymandering is just another form of voter suppression. Their goal is to suppress the vote to guarantee that they will win. The big question is how far will they go to suppress the vote? Will they go as far as suppressing the results? That is what some tried to do with the 2020 election.  A fear that many of us have is that many of the voter suppression laws are just for that reason, suppress the results. If that happens then we no longer have a democracy, and the vision of our Republic created by our forefathers is dead. Our Republic, the United States of America will no longer exist. The big question to all you flag waving patriot is what is more important? The survival of our Democracy and Republic or you winning an election at all cost? If you answer is the winning of the election than you really are not a flag waving patriot. The problem is that I know people that winning the election is more important than our Republic and still want to promote the lie that they are a patriot.

We have had three Supreme Court Justices appointed to the Court by a President that admired Dictators more than Leaders elected by the people of their nation. We had a President that respected Putin and Kim Jong-un more that the world leader from our so called allies. I have seen over a dozen Presidents in my lifetime that this was the first time that I have ever seen a President turn its back on our allies in favor of Dictators. I have read articles that he was envious that he did not have the power to kill opponents like Putin or Jong-un did. I can’t fathom any President wanting that power. That is not a President that believes in our Republic and neither are his supporters. When you are chanting lock the opponent up during a political campaign you have now turned our politics into something out of a third world country not a democracy that is the pillar of freedom. Can we expect a Supreme Court who has been appointed by a want to-be dictator to truly protect our democracy? That is my biggest fear and so far from what I have seen from this court is a group of justices that are not willing to protect the will of the people. When our highest court becomes a tool for the oppressor our country is in for a very bad hair day. We have Justices like Clarence Thomas that do not believe in our Democracy or our Republic. Combine him with the three appointed by Trump and we have a mess.

I always thought that our Republic was very resilient that could endure a lot of outside pressure to survive. I never thought it would be from our own people pretending to be patriots that would want to destroy what so many had built. As we are trying to get one symbol of hate, the Confederate flag go away they try and turn our own American Flag into a symbol of hate.  Now every time I see an American flag I wonder if it is flying for our country or flying in support of White Supremacy. Is it flying for all Americans or for just white Americans? Is it flying for both Democrats and Republicans or just Republicans because Democrats are enemies of the people? As long as the United States stays divided there will be people that turn our flag into a symbol of hate. When you see people carrying our great flags in marches along with Confederate Flags and Nazi Flags they are turning our flag into a symbol of hate.

I really love America and I want to see us continue to be pillar of democracy around the world. For that to happen we don’t want to have “America First” we want to have “Americans First”. The people. A government by the people, of the people, for the people. Not just the 1% but also for the other 99 percent. Not just for white people but for all people no matter the race, color, creed or sexual orientation. America must stand for all Americans. United we stand and divided we will fall. Our Forefathers knew that.