antiwar shame is an imperial luxury we can no longer afford
Why are we going bankrupt while our taxes are used to blow up elementary schools with a.i.? For the profit of Israel, oil companies, arms dealers, and a.i.
Why? Because the U.S. economy is artificially propped up on Israel, oil, weapons, and big tech.
If we no longer want to go bankrupt while our taxes get used to blow up elementary schools with a.i., getting rid of Trump is not going to be sufficient. We’d have to build an economy that is not artificially propped up on Israel, oil, arms trading, and big tech.
Impeaching Trump gives you Vance. Impeaching Vance gives you Johnson. In fact you would have to impeach almost the entire Congress before you reached anyone who might be willing to turn their back on Israel, oil, arms deals, and big tech as the traditional ways to artificially prop up the U.S. economy.
It's not enough to elect candidates who seem nice or charm you personally. Obama was charming to millions of people, but because he was weak on foreign policy, he allowed “national security experts” to advise him to expand the War on Terror from two countries to nine, to kill innocent bystanders with drones every Tuesday, and become a war criminal whose Secretary of State threatened on national t.v. to "obliterate" Iran.
If we no longer want to go bankrupt while our taxes get used to blow up elementary schools with a.i., we’d have to either completely replace our political system (a revolution -- not impossible, they happen all the time), or we could keep the same political system but start overwhelmingly electing lawmakers who clearly state in their campaigns and platforms that they intend to turn their backs on the traditional sources of U.S. economic power. Lawmakers who say clearly that they intend to divest from Israel, oil, arms dealing, and big tech.
In case anyone has forgotten, the last occupant of the White House also bankrupted the American taxpayer to fund the blowing up of elementary schools with a.i. The fact that we elected him and let him do it with no consequences is what told Trump it was ok to the same.
It should be obvious to everyone that candidates who explicitly promise to continue propping up the economy on Israel, oil, arms dealing and big tech (Harris and Newsom) will keep using our taxes to blow up elementary schools with a.i. But candidates who remain vague on the issue (AOC and Warren) are also likely to be persuaded, like Obama was, to keep investing in Israel, oil, arms dealing, big tech, and war crimes. In other words, they can therefore be expected, if elected, to keep using our taxes to blow up elementary schools with a.i.
As Americans, we’ve been taught our whole lives to feel shame about antiwar candidates, parties, movements, and businesses. We need to let go of that shame. It has become an imperial luxury we can no longer afford. This war with Iran is the least popular new war in American history. But until we are willing to do more than just whine about it, and actually give material support to the candidates, parties, movements and businesses that explicitly oppose such wars, even if they are independent or from third parties, we can expect to continue going bankrupt while our taxes get used to blow up elementary schools with a.i.