When are we going to REBEL?

 

When are we going to rebel against an authoritarian bully who has not and will never "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States"; a bully who is contemptuous and ignorant of the Constitution of the United States of America, specifically the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments; a bully who also violates Article II, Section 1 and Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America; a bully who ignores the legislative and judicial branches of government and their Balance of Power; a bully and his cohorts who are attacking our Democracy and the Rule of Law?

-Glen Brown

And when are we going to rebel against the oligarchy? We already have witnessed a takeover of the radical Republican Party; the undermining of democracy; the evisceration of campaign finance law; the weakening of U.S. labor unions; right-to-work laws to keep workers powerless; the shutting down of the federal government; the denial of climate change from the executive and legislative branches of government; ALEC-backed legislators who created bills to restrict minority voting and to manipulate the boundaries of their electoral constituency; the closing of nearly 1700 voting precincts, of which many of them are in Black and Latino communities; the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act; the scapegoating of teachers and the attacks on retirees’ and public employees’ pensions; the deprivation of university and college adjunct faculty; the systematic dismantling of public ownership and services; the privatized exorbitantly-priced healthcare system; the rewriting of the tax code to benefit the wealthiest Americans; the victimization of immigrant children and their parents and other forms of oligarchic oppression. Are we going to allow the continuing deregulation of our environmental protections; the continuing privatization of our public schools; the eradication of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; the transformation of the U.S. courts and the privatization of the justice system; the manufacturing of paranoia about migrant caravans of Mexican and South American immigrants seeking asylum; the current GOP's obstructionism, authoritarianism, xenophobia, unaccountable dark money, voter suppression, and their reinterpretation of the U.S. Constitution to successfully oppress the majority of Americans?  RESIST!

-Glen Brown