Fifty eight people have as much wealth as 3.3 billion. In the US, three men have as much wealth as 160 million.

There are some 12,500 nuclear weapons in the world. A nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan will induce nuclear winter.

Global warming is destroying all means for survival. There is some attention but scant action. The greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing.

Our political leaders, the media, the business sector and the educational establishment are ignoring what is going on refusing to take necessary action.

The One Percent are like heroin addicts overwhelmed by the need to hang on to wealth and power.

Republicans have convince many, especially in rural America, that the black people, homosexuals and the immigrants are robbing them ignoring the greatest lopsided wealth distribution in human history. Thom Hartman in the attached article shows how rural Americans are getting a raw deal from the people that they elect. See these excerpts and then read the 10 page article:

The astonishing paradox, though, is how Republican politicians regularly crap on their own voters in rural America. Instead of offering help or solutions to rural problems, the GOP and conservative media instead feed them a steady diet of xenophobic and racist fear and hate.

Democrats created — and Republicans opposed — virtually all the programs that are keeping rural America from sinking even farther into poverty and despair. Social Security, unemployment insurance, SS Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, over 60 farm subsidy programs that funnel billions in taxpayer dollars into rural communities, food stamps, the Women and Infant Children (WIC) program, anti-addiction programs, etc.

Most of the Red State Republican politicians in America know their seats will never be in danger, so they take millions from special interest groups to write loopholes into the tax code, vote for larger fossil fuel subsidies, and vote against efforts to lower prescription drug prices or do anything about global warming.

It’s undeniably true (and documented with each hotlink below) that Republican-controlled “Red” states, almost across the board, have higher rates of:

— Spousal abuse
— Obesity
— Smoking
— Teen pregnancy
— Sexually transmitted diseases
— Abortion (at least before Dobbs; now it would be “forced births”)
— Bankruptcies and poverty
— Homicide and suicide
— Infant mortality
— Maternal mortality
— Forcible rape
— Robbery and aggravated assault
— Dropouts from high school
— Divorce
— Contaminated air and water
— Opiate addiction and deaths
— Unskilled workers
— Parasitic infections
— Income and wealth inequality
— Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
— Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
— People on welfare
— Child poverty
— Homelessness
— Spousal murder
— Unemployment
— Deaths from auto accidents
— People living on disability
— Gun deaths

White rural rage: The secret political force shaping America’s future

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,