I drew a conclusion years ago [View all]

[Marthe48]

and I don't feel it was that wrong. I was probably wrong blaming nixon only, but like felon, he was a tool surrounded by people interested in destroying the U.S. He was the first of a line of men willing to destroy the nation for their puppet masters.

I grew up in the 1960s, was a young adult starting a family in the 1970s. We had a rough start, but by 1973, we were doing okay. We even bought a house. Then because of nixon and kissinger, the shah raised oil prices and crashed the world economy. Aside from rampant inflation, we also got hit with a recession, and by 1975, everyone we knew in our age group was unemployed. We all shared what we had and we got through the next 2 years. My husband was laid off for 26 months.

While we were suffering through a profound rip in our life plans, I wondered why it was happening. One answer that made sense to me was that nixon hated the middle class and he especially hated the people who protested the Vietnam war. I think every economic decision he made was to put burdens on the middle class to destroy it. His policy decisions have lived on since the 70s, in spite of attempts to reverse, slow or cancel them.

I think the 70s was when so much of the evil we see now started coalescing around the right. With nixon and his inner circle, the religion fanatics, the misogynists, the bigoted, the hateful, the power hungry, the greedy, had somebody in power who would forward their sick agenda. We were saved then by elected senators and representatives who stopped the evil agenda, at least the part in view. It went under cover, but all of the parts were in place for them to keep working to dismantle the progressive agenda that had built and was building the U.S. into a more equitable country.

Notice that the power behind the throne worked overtime to destroy President Carter. The evil powerhouse got reagan elected, another chump who would go along with annihilation of the middle class. Then bush, who managed to subtly undercut even more social and economic security to derail progress we were making, not just as Americans, but as people. President Clinton and the dot com economy was a detour, as was President Obama, but the evil gang of thugs never stopped their effort to destroy the middle class. President Biden did his damnedest to block the momentum, but what power we are up against.

I look at other countries which have chosen their people over power and obscene wealth. They do fine. They have people trying to be better. They have religious fanatics, bigots, misogynists, and greedy people, but they are, so far, keeping them in check. Our country was able to have a vast safety net and still thrive as the richest country, the most powerful country. We're losing what has made us the greatest country.

I didn't expect that I'd have to be on high alert my whole life, but here we are. I want what we had for the next generations. I want to crush the evil that is destroying everything hopeful and replacing it with nothing. It is hard to fight, then fight some more and then fight some more, especially when things we thought were blood allies, like elected officials and the supreme court, have joined the evil forces determined to force us to conditions where brutality is the only thing that counts. I am counting on the inate force that has driven humans from Socrates to John Lewis to seek personal freedom that we will share with others.

*I wrote this myself, no AI involved, although I did check spelling on a few words If I don't respect someone, I don't capitalize their name, just an fyi.