Bren Kelly
3 min readNov 24, 2024

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Here,I’ll judge him for you. He’s plumped as a black man to defend the administration from racist accusations, and despite not looking like this will be a big deal and low key, like Carson the administration will use him to gut housing for the poor and lower worker class, widening the poverty net at the bottom of the economic rung, a place that no party fights over. The Dems talk of the “middle class” and the Republicans talk about saving money, which means cut social services for the poor. If you recall, in 2022, Biden gave nothing in the way of social services and cut all of them out of Infrastructure Bill, though he managed to keep in billions in various tax breaks for oil companies under the guise of road construction (bitumen), housing (tar shingle roofs), plastic recycling, carbon capture, and methane use, and even renewables, were the major investors into battery power storage on the grid was done by oil companies. The two parties in other words are working perfectly in sync in destroying housing, the poor safety nets, criminalizing homeless people (Gavin Newsome started jailing them), maintaining “slavery or involuntary servitude” from the 13th amendment constitutional permission structure (again, Prop 6 was passed preserving it in California by avoiding the word “slavery” and leaving in the equivalent “involuntary servitude”, both words for forced labor, and passed in 2022 in Louisiana). I’m not about the rhetoric of the two parties, but I am sure that their actions are the same in what they support, and last one, funding a full scale genocide, is depraved. I don’t what more these parties have to do to signal they hate blacks, browns, and generally like women repressed to convince minorities that are but tokens. For me, it would have been ending slavery and un-doing the disenfranchisement laws passed in so many states since 1980 mass jailing campaign of blacks and secondarily browns, which now strips voting rights away in 48 states, worse then the 15 in Jim Crow era.
The arbitrary conditions of applying in states voting rights depravation and forced labor is a clear sign of such systemic racial hatred, spread out of the South in the biggest nationalized campaigns of those to monstrous anti-democracy institutions, is nothing but a sign that democracy is already dead. Americans have no civics lessons on purpose, because if they did that the fundamental difference between democracy and autocracy is the ability of the government to take away inherent rights “under some conditions”. That is, in an autocracy, the government can alienate some rights under certain arbitrary conditions “for the sake of safety and security,” or whatever they want. In democracy the government on any level can NOT alieanate basic rights—the fight to work, the right to vote. By 1804, the Mason-Dixon Line was formed by laws and state constitutions above it abolishing slavery by establishing unalienable rights and establishing voting rights for all. Even though conservatives put up roadblocks, black Americans were able to overcome them to vote in 9 of the original 13 states by 1834. It was a process to overcome autocracy, the only known system of governance on all the continents. But after the Civil War, white supremacists in the South resisted democracy being forced on them, and eventually kept reversing it. They kept going and going, never stopping their resistance. The liberals got worn down and participated in the gaslighting that “everything is OK.” “Let’s be united.” That’s a practice conservatives never believed in or practiced. That’s how we got to now, a time when after the Civil Rights Movement, the gains of it have not only been reversed but spread outside the Jim Crow region to the rest of America, that now disenfranchises and enslaves “duly convicted felons.” There is no national Civil Rights movement to stop them, only two parties, one doing the damage and spreading it, and the other laying down in front of them whenever bullied. I truly hope minorities will give up the illusions that either party is working for them and not against them. I have quit both of them for their failures.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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