“It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.”
Shortly after James Baldwin’s death, Toni Morrison eulogized him: “I never heard a single command from you, yet the demands you made on me, the challenges you issued to me, were nevertheless unmistakable.”
I can’t be as gentle as Baldwin, I’m making a more direct demand, if not command, of my readers. Why? MLK said the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. I’m not so sure. I hear person after person say that Israel is doomed to fail. That a resurgent colonialism is doomed to collapse.
I don’t know that. Colonialism succeeded in the USA. Horrifically.
It is now taking on new forms, including well beyond Palestine.
The Israeli Davos darling, Yuval Noah Harari, calls humans “hackable animals”.
One aspect of that hack is false choices.
This is epitomized by the phoniness of the electoral “choice” between Team Red and Team Blue. A process that pundifies the public, turning citizens into serfs.
I attempt to thwart that hack by getting would-be Trump voters and would-be Harris voters to pair up and both vote for non-genocidal candidates. That’s my VotePact.org strategy.
The demand that I attempt to make of my readers is to give me bona fide pairings. Real-life people who break free of the establishment by relying upon each other. Love over hate. That’s what I outline in this interview on VotePact: