To me, everyday that passes feels more like a situation in which I am holding my breath in America. Put another way, I am waiting for the other shoe to drop, something that is never a good thing. I imagine that this is not solely my predicament, but one shared by my fellow Americans as well as many of my fellow Earthlings. This I believe because news around the world seems to reflect that things are getting worse for the huddled masses everywhere.
In the past I have been labeled the Doomsayer by colleagues from work. Given the previous paragraph, I understood the views held about me, but that moniker is a thing of the past. That nickname was given to me years ago, before the negative things I predicted in my book came true. I no longer work with the colleagues referenced above, but I imagine that they are wondering what happened to the America they once knew and loved. I imagine that they're experiencing the same decline that far too many have experienced over the past decade or two. I imagine they've witnessed their personal wealth, freedom and security diminish as have those things diminished for the rest of us. That is if course, unless they have become fabulously rich. In that case, they're most likely living in the same oblivion that allows the wealthy to sleep at night.
As for an instance of the other shoe dropping outside of America, I imagine this must be the case for the Orthodox Jews in Israel who oppose the apartheid and genocide occuring in Gaza. In this case, that shoe dropping has come in the form of Israeli police brutalizing Orthodox Jews as is witnessed in videos like this. Jews opposed to Palestinian persecution being beaten by Israeli police. Quick question. Is this an example of the antisemitism that the main stream media reports on daily?
What's worse is that the violence exhibited in the video presented here could hev been shot in so many places around the world. And what makes it so remarkable is that it's almost always the police who are committing the acts of violence against peaceful protestors. In America today, the videos we see more often than not show the police brutalizing college students protesting Israel's occupation and murder in Gaza. In the past, it was the police pepper spraying protestors at Occupy Wall Street protests, or at Black Lives Matter protests or it was water protectors at oil pipeline protests. In Canada, it was the government labeling the vaccine mandate protestors as Nazis to justify freezing the truckers bank accounts.
People are waiting for the other shoe to drop across the Globe and when it does, it always harms the majority to protect the power, money and influence of a minority. What's truly ironic and sad is that the lives of the police who are doing the bidding of the elite will someday suffer the same fate as those they persecute.
When you accept an economic system designed to transfer a greater percentage of wealth to an ever-wealthier minority, it eventually steals from you. Those police so eager to stomp out freedom will eventually have to deal with the same inflation that is stealing the futures of the rest of us. Though they think they are immune to the machinations of the greedy elite, their bills will come due someday soon. When that day come however, it will be a new group of bullies who will be getting paid to police free will and free speech.
In 2018, I wrote a book highlighting the problems Humanity would face if more power, wealth, and control was funneled to a small group of elite individuals, groups, or organizations. In my book, I provided solutions (from myself and others) to the inevitable problems and also a means for the Public to analyze, compare, and contrast the words and deeds of those we choose to follow against reality. In my book Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America.
In "Solutions...", I provide the means for readers to disseminate information as provided by their news sources of choice, their elected officials, and any other authority they choose to follow. The book also offers a means to hold their leaders up, not just to a higher standard than is currently accepted but to one that would improve their lives and the lives of those for whom they care.
