Last night, I had a dream.
A dream that the world was a beautiful and diverse place with love and tolerance for all. A place, while diverse, was also united in our common humanity, ready to tackle the biggest problems, including saving our globe from the devasting effects of climate change.
Pooling our resources and knowledge to mitigate and reverse its horrible ravaging of our planet. Not in becoming hoarders and exploiting those who possess what we feel we want. Screw the others. Just take what we want, and damn the long-term consequences.
I dreamed that all the cautionary tales about the coming of the Kingdom would not occur because we made patriotic choices not to follow the Christian Reich path.
I dreamed of universal healthcare, affordable schooling, libraries free of extremist pressure, billionaires being a thing of the past, and woke becoming a symbol of virtue rather than derision.
Then my dream ended, and I awoke with a start.
The world is burning, and morons are blaming DEI.
The Convicted Felon is not a Christian, but that is not stopping him from aligning himself with them to get what he wants. And that's anything and everything he wants for himself and his billionaire buddies. He is a soulless person, without caring or conscious. He really doesn't even like his billionaire buddies - they are just tools to acquire more for himself.
The Kingdom stories envision a splintering of the United States, with the bulk of the conservative states forming their own nation, The Kingdom. Another country from America's West Coast is identified in the stories as Pacifica. Consider what is happening now, with the possibility that western Canada and the same western states could form Cascadia.
The Kingdom lives as a potential projection. And it terrifies me.
Why does Donny Diaper want Canada and Greenland? Some call it a distraction. But what if it's not?
What if he is lying to us (surprise!) and knows global warming is real? There are vast resources under the ice in Greenland and Northern Canada - minerals and metals, oil and natural gas, tons of riches. What if he's decided that as these area's ice covering melts, he wants him and his buddies to control those resources?
He doesn't want to take over those lands because he wants to benefit the natives in any way, nor does he really care about national security. No. He wants to possess them and strip them for parts, just like a private equity pirate.
Just like his grandfather wanted to do, coming over from Germany and trying to make his fortune in Alaska and the Northwest Territories. Of course, Friedrich (Drumpf) Trump did not accomplish a fortune in gold, but he did establish taverns with gambling and whores. Yes, that is where the Trump fortune started.
I can still dream. I only wish I could make it so.
For the sake of my children and granddaughter, as dim as the future looks, I pray that we can emerge from this dark time.
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