America = war and dictatorship

Governor Walz said “violence has no place in America.” I hope that is his vision for the future but I doubt it. As of now violence IS America and his running mate promotes violence with her support of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Maybe Walz has forgotten the United States’ murder around the world such as the U.S.’s killing of 3 million Vietnamese, 1 million Iraqis, 50,000 Nicaraguans in the U.S.-sponsored Contra war, and the dozens of other examples that Americans are encouraged to forget (and they do). Maybe Walz has a real short memory and has already forgotten the 41,000 Palestinians killed in the last months destroying homes, medical facilities, schools. And the killing continues with weapons continuing to flow to the Israeli (American) killing machine.  Unfortunately, the Democrats are the same as the Republicans. Americans don’t have a choice for peace. America does not want peace-not good for the weapons industry and big business. We need to recognize the fact that the US government is not the answer to world peace which is the most important thing in the world. America does not want it. We as taxpayers are funding U.S. genocide in Palestine. 

When are we going to get tired of America killing people around the world and not taking care of us here in the United States and caring for the environment. When are we going to demand the U.S. government be peaceful and stop killing Palestinians. When will we stand up to the corporate/weapons companies that the Senate, House and President represent.

Biden and Harris are the current criminals in the White House. They do NOT want peace. The enemies of humanity overly outnumber everyone else in the House, Senate, and White House.
We are in big trouble as long as we don’t question this so-called democracy.
Our choices that the system gives us is vote for war and genocide or vote for war and genocide.
America equals war and dictatorship.
Steve Johnson
Ely, Minnesota

Democracy in America

Kamala Harris is the ideal establishment liberal candidate, a cheerful marriage of identity politics and the usual capitalism, militarism and empire. Kamala has many excuses for keeping U.S. wars going in Israel and Ukraine to the delight of the arms industry. But she doesn’t like to talk about it. Kamala recently put down a group of Israel critics who interrupted one of her speeches, which the media clipped as a demonstration of a strong woman when in fact it was a refusal to talk about Palestinian genocide. Kamala is Obama II, kinder gentler imperialism.

As usual 2024 underscores the uselessness of electoral politics without a popular movement behind it. As Thomas Merton said during the Vietnam war: I voted for Johnson but what I got was Goldwater’s war policy.
This is the choice that the donor class gives us: You can have unbridled capitalism, war and empire with promises of abortion rights (oh, but not the health care system to provide it) or you can have unbridled capitalism, war and empire without those promises.
This is the same donor class that scuttled the Sanders campaign and gave us Biden, who chose Harris, who with the advice and consent of the donor class, gave us the ever-pliable Walz.
Like all presidential elections this is another lose-lose situation – a choice between arrogant ignorance and upbeat prevarication. It should never be forgotten just how really evil the lesser of two evils is.
Welcome to democracy in America.
 Robert Kosuth
Duluth, Minnesota