The Roar of the People

"Do We Hear It? Will We Embrace It?"

Dan Celovsky

August 30, 2024

This is not about the politicians.   This is about the people.  This is about the people raising their voices.  This is about the people coming together to build the future we all want.

We are in a Class War.  Their side is the 1% Establishment.  Our side is us - all of us.  

Before you freak out that what follows is about supporting any politician or political party, let me clarify a couple points:

1. Considering any politician to be a hero is not where we need to go. Democratic power is rooted in the people.  There is no hero riding in to save us.  We are the heroes.  You.  Me.  All of us.  Celebrity worship of any politician is cultish at best.  It is simply anti-democratic. Surely, we have learned that lesson by now … 

2. Democracy is not about having everything totally aligned with what each of us want.  It is about coming to a consensus on issues that define our common ground.  With that, we attain the freedom to discuss and resolve the remaining issues where we differ.  

Having a respect for democracy is what this is about.  As such, this is 100% about the people.  This is about seeing and hearing the consensus we have on the common ground that gives us democracy.  We all have to agree to democracy to make democracy work.  It’s pretty basic.

Democracy is not about 100% agreement on everything.  It is about having discussions, presenting all sides constructively, and reaching consensus.  The prerequisite is that we need to be together to actually practice democracy.

We are in a Class War.  The 1% has attacked our democratic freedoms and rights.  They are very well organized and have shown up on the battlefield.  It is time for us to show up on the battlefield to defend ourselves.  

The 1% ruling class is fully organized with its own government officials, its own propagandized media, and its own armed security forces.  It perpetuates and sustains its organized system through the corruptive power of money.  That is what they got.

That is also all they got.  They will never exceed 1% while we vastly outnumber them.  As soon as we decide to come together, their advantages quickly crumble into dust.  Uniting ourselves is what we have to do.

They also have another big problem.  There is no honor among thieves.  They are characterized with narcissistic psychopathy.  They do not know the meaning of cooperation nor the strength of unity.  They will fight among themselves.  And that weakness has arrived on the scene.  It is up to us to exploit that core weakness in them.  If we do that - and unite together - this Class War will end very quickly.

August 23, 2024  Glendale Arizona

On Friday, August 23 2024, a Donald Trump rally was held in Glendale Arizona.  It was a packed house.  This specific rally was notable as it was the rally where Robert F Kennedy Jr threw his support to Trump and spoke to the gathered crowd.  It is the rally where some of the right questions got asked.

I see this as a pivotal point in our revolution; our Class War.  Again, let me state that what moved me at this rally was not the politicians.  It was not Trump nor was it Kennedy.  It was all about the people who attended.  Trump and Kennedy merely asked the questions.  The people provided the answers.  The roar of the crowd for the issues that were raised is what moved me.  I heard them roar in unity and consensus on common ground issues!!!!

A quick review of the issues raised at this rally started before Donald Trump introduced RFK Jr to the podium. Trump declared “I will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts, and they will be tasked with releasing all the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy {...}”.  The entire crowd cheered loudly!!!

I have written on the assassination of President John F Kennedy previously.  In summary, that was the moment when the Deep State (the 1%) took our democracy from us.  It is when the 1% attacked us. It is time to expose the Deep State and its players.  What we are seeing and hearing is the people finally showing up on the battlefield to take on the 1%.  This is long, long overdue.  

There is considerable validity to the theory that the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler Pennsylvania last month was instigated by the same Deep State.  That alone should wake us all up to the rift that will destroy the 1% from the inside.  Donald Trump is pissed off - as he should be.  The 1% is tearing itself apart with their own civil war.  

When RFK Jr took to the podium, he asked several key questions.  I will bet we all have the same answers to them.  Don’t we?

“Don’t you want healthy children?”  The crowd roared!

“Don't you want the chemicals out of our food?”  The crowd roared!

“Don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption?”  The crowd roared!

RFK Jr didn’t stop there.  He asked a few more questions.

“Don’t you want a President who is going to get us out of these wars and rebuild the middle class?”  The crowd roared!

When it came to censorship, free speech and a free press, RFK Jr asked “Don’t you want a President who is going to protect Americans’ freedoms and who is going to protect us from totalitarianism?”   The crowd roared!

Ask yourself the same questions that this crowd was asked.  Aren’t your answers the same? If you were among that crowd on August 23rd, you would roar too! This is called common ground.  It is the foundation that democracy requires to flourish.

Let me ask a further question:  Why do we not see that our neighbors want many of the same things we ourselves want?  On every one of those questions asked, do we not agree with the crowd?   

What we all want is not perfect nor is it 100% aligned.  But our common ground covers 90% of the ground we all share.  We have common ground.  Together, that unity on the common ground we all share gives us the tools to resolve all the remaining issues we face together.  Democracy demands that we gather together to make democracy function.

We can call the people in that crowd “MAGA Republicans”.  But labels don’t do us any good.  Are you left;  are you right; are you a liberal; are you a conservative.  These are nothing more than labels.  Who cares?  Remember that labels are designed to divide us - they are a weapon used against us.

The only labeling difference that matters in a Class War is:  Are you with the 1% or are you with the people.  Pick a side.

It is obvious that the MAGA Republicans are not the same as the Establishment Republicans. The difference between them is massive.  Remember that the Establishment Republicans tried to promote Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley over Donald Trump in their primary.  The MAGA Republicans rejected the Republican Establishment.  It wasn’t even close.  The MAGA Republicans do not care for the Establishment likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, or Mike Johnson.  MAGA Republicans care about change.  They care about equity, fairness, justice, peace and freedom.  Just like we do.

Are they perfect?  No!   But - is any one of us perfect?  None of us are.  MAGA Republicans are our neighbors.  None of us are perfect and they are not perfect.  But they want the same important things we want.  Once again, let me state that Democracy requires us to come together to discuss and work out the issues where we do not align.  The common ground we need is there.  Democracy requires us to embrace our common ground.

November 5th

The November 5th election will be meaningless - unless we all unite and push our agenda forward.  Can we do something on November 5th that sets us on the path towards the destination we all want?  I think so.  

We can ask if Donald Trump is the best possible politician to lead us in the direction we all want.  That is a very fair question to ask.  We all know that we could do so much better.  But Donald Trump is who we got right now.  I am not making the case for Trump - the 1% have made that case themselves.  They have done that in their own corrupt broken system.  

Let’s use it against them.  Let me present my logic here.

I am opposed to the 1%.  I completely see us in the midst of a Class War.  Donald Trump is a member of the 1%.  Robert F Kennedy Jr is a member of the 1%.  But, the 1% has a character flaw that has come home to roost.  They are not cooperative people and have a glaring division among them.  Re-read the questions that everyone roared the same answers to in approval.  We are on common ground here.

The Establishment Democrats (the DNC) represent one faction in the civil war within the 1%.  They just concluded their convention in Chicago the very day before this rally.  Their message was so convoluted that they had Bernie Sanders speak about the ills of the “billionaire class” while placing multiple billionaires around him on the podium.  One of them was so arrogant to even declare out loud “I am a real billionaire!”  That is hypocrisy placed right in our face.  Their arrogance is abhorrent.  That is so insulting that it should generate rage in every one of us.

The DNC presented zero policies. They didn’t hold a primary and simply crowned an empty vessel in Kamala Harris as their puppet to present to us.  When just a month ago, Kamala Harris polled horrendously in favorability ratings, they created a vibe of joy around her (whatever their idea of joy actually means is anyone’s guess).  And - worst of all - they declare themselves to be the protectors of democracy while they obfuscate every single principle of democracy.  

They despise Donald Trump.  They impeached him twice.  They tried to jail him.  They even went to the point of trying to assassinate him!  The Establishment is very obviously at war among themselves.  In this Class War, we need to exploit their weaknesses.  And this is a very obvious weakness to exploit. They do not want Trump.  Hmmmm … 

Personally, I support the presidential candidacy of Dr. Jill Stein.  She would deliver the right solutions on every one of the issues brought up at that August 23rd Trump Rally in Arizona.  And she would deliver a lot more.  

However, we all know that we remain stuck in the duopoly politics between the Republican and Democratic parties which primarily operate as a uniparty.  The election system is as corrupt as the rest of the overall system.  On November 5th, we are stuck with it.  

What can we do right now given what we have to work with?  We can stoke the internal division within the 1% - exploit their own weakness. Make them hurt.  Class War it is.  And tactics are required.

We need to change the direction to move forward to the full change we all want.  That means we need to change the course of the trajectory of our futures.  We need to pivot the direction.  What the Trump candidacy offers us is that pivot point to move our path in the right direction.  It does not take us to the ultimate destination we want, but it moves us onto its path.  

The election is just over 2-months away.  I will support Dr. Jill Stein and the other independent and third party candidates in my heart.  But - facing the duopoly of our current political reality in place - I will hope that Donald Trump carries the day on November 5th in my practical mind.  We need this pivot point in our trajectory forward.  Once again, this is not our destination, but it is a step that places us on the path to our destination.

We are in a deep, dismal and dangerous hole right now.  We really dug ourselves into a mess.  We all know that the first step to take when you dig yourself into a hole is to stop digging.  This is how we stop digging.  This is how we pivot the trajectory going forward.  And tomorrow we can move further down the path we want.

We cannot let corruption continue to win.  Let’s stop digging and start climbing out of that hole.  Trump is merely the step of putting down our shovels.  That stops the digging.  Then there is more work to do to liberate ourselves from that deep hole we find ourselves in.

Beyond November 5th

We need revolutionary change.  We have been given the seeds of revolution by the internal division that the 1% has given itself.  Beyond making this key initial pivot, I see two next steps we can take right now.  

First, we need to unite ourselves.  The MAGA folks share a lot of common ground with us.  They are our neighbors.  They want many of the same things we do - at the foundational level as presented by the questions they roared up in approval with.  That is common ground baby!!!

Unite.

Secondly, trust is earned.  Trump has not earned anything yet.  We need to make sure the platform items now placed on the table by Donald Trump and his team are followed through on should he be elected.   We need our independent media to keep vigilant tabs on actions taken and to keep us informed as to their progress. Our independent media is our eyes and ears.  They keep us informed.  The legacy corporate media is no longer tolerable.  

Vigilance.

We need to unite ourselves and we need to be ready to stand up to ensure that our elected representatives (including the new President) are delivering on their promises.  

Israel/Palestine Comment

Trump and RFK Jr have steadfastly stood behind supporting Israel.  This is totally unacceptable.  We need to sustain pressure on them.  

However, there is a potential bright light on this issue.  Trump has declared his willingness (and even eagerness) to open diplomatic discussions globally which he also did during his first presidential term.  Russia and China (among many other countries) completely stand with the rights of the Palestinian people.  We can be confident that these nations will pressure Trump to peaceful resolution within those diplomatic talks.  

Here is a clear example of this point.  When was the last time that Joe Biden had a discussion with Vladimir Putin?  John F Kennedy had regular personal discussions with Nikita Krushchev.  Those discussions kept the peace during the tensions of the Cold War.  They both knew what was at stake, and that dialogue for peace was the right course to take.

Between ourselves keeping up the domestic pressures at home and those international pressures, we hold a much better chance for the peaceful resolution of this genocidal atrocity than we do with the other alternative in this corrupt duopoly.

Yes.  A Presidential choice that offers open discussions with Russia and other national leaders is the lesser evil choice in the November 5th election.  For that alone, Trump is the lesser evil over Harris-Biden.

Keep the pressure up.   

We are in a Class War.  The enemy has stumbled by stoking their own infighting.   Let’s exploit it and grab the advantage that has given us.  Let’s unite and win it.  The common ground among us is very obviously there.  We have been presented with the opportunity of a pivot point to move the trajectory into the direction we all want to go.  

Let’s take it.

References

Jimmy Dore’s great take on the August 23rd rally 

Full August 23rd rally

A very interesting interview (RFK Jr with Tucker Carlson) 

We can unite together at a Peace & Freedom Rally that has been organized by Occupy Peace (https://occupypeace.com/)   for September 28th in Kingston NY.  I will see you there!