SOLD SOULS

   Sold souls.
What do I mean by that?
Simply this: those who have sold their own souls for the ultimately worthless gewgaws of this world, chiefly for wealth and power. Mostly, for the power to stomp on the faces of others with impunity. Always of those with less eartthly power than the stompers and usually 'different' in some relatively unimportant way such as sex or orientation thereto, skin color (A BIIIG one!), national origin or faith community.
And, having sold their own souls for such trash, now seek to sell their followers out. The prime example of this is the arms manufacturers and their lobbyists, with the NRA leading this pack of TRAITORS!
Their followers are mostly my 'fellow' male dough-faces, although they do include an alarming number of women, nearly all of whom are also dough-faces. Most of those with darker skins seem to be wise to them, mostly because they've always been among the sufferers from what the bullies do. Jews are an exception to this: most are neither dark nor dough-faced, but at least a millennium and a half of being pushed round, proscribed, exiled, expelled , re-expelled and massacred tends to teach one to recognize the signs, if you follow me.
But they too are human and, hence, not immune to such dangerous blandishments. Stephen Miller, I'm looking right at you. You too, Benny boy. Not at you though, Caroline.
Right now, such bullies are not found on the left side of North American or European politics. They might be found on that side in 'People's Republics' such as China, North Korea, Venezuela and maybe Cuba. But in our political world, they are almost all among today's fascisti. Yes. Use. The. Correct. Word. FASCISTI.
And they bait their followers with promises that they too may one day stomp on those who they hate--or those who they believe, from being lied to constantly, hate them. Which is not so. We are big believers in 'live and let live'. For y'all as well as us.
And yet, they are not the most dangerous characters featured herein. If an African-American blues musician can sit down and talk with Klansmen and by God's Grace get them to come to the light and give him their robes as tokens of that change (and he has done so with 200+ of them so far!) then, again with the Grace of God, they are yet reachable when God gives the strength of character and understanding to some of us to do so--part of which needs to be avoiding the addytood (thank you Philly!) of the Yankee schoolma'm who thinks she knows it all and we don't know s**t.
The most dangerous characters are those who, so long as what's in their wallet or purse continues to grow, could frankly care less about anyone else or the nation, much less the planet, as a whole. And yet, when the underpinning of such 'growth' collapses, as it does with sickening regularity, is there anyone who wails, yelps, snarls and whimpers with as much noise as they? Here are the hardcore Judases, who would sell out the rest of us and be content with probably only five pieces of silver per head, never mind thirty!
These are the ones who either don't, or say they don't, understand that the way to build lasting prosperity on this whole planet is to invest in both our natural capital and our human capital. This means re-planting the Amazon rainforest, protecting the Boreal Pines, capturing carbon and re-enriching impoverished soils with it, sweeping up the Pacific Plastic Patch and finding real uses for all that plastic. Could we build an island for all those selfish billionaires with it, I wonder? Anyhow, that's just a fraction of such investment!
We invest in our human capital by doing all we can to nourish and educate them. The GI Bill and FHA are examples of how we invested in our (white, OK) human capital. And the result was a turbocharged economy for thirty years. Imagine what investment in all our human capital, along with investment in our natural capital, can do--for all of us!
But first, every single sold soul, at every level of government, must be voted out, thrown down and be barred, somehow, from any office of public trust which they have abused nearly to the utmost! They control the Senate, are too many in the House and own too many state legislatures! WE need to change that this November! Think about what a future we can make together--and how we will surely implode if we don't vote out all the sold souls!
Apologies for the lack of fire and brimstone seasoning; it's a great flavoring but we dasn't get addicted to it.