Commoners fought with blood, sweat, and tears for Equality and Freedom against the oppression of Monarchies. They sacrificed themselves for the cause, and hundreds of thousands had died over the centuries to get rid of the brutal, abusive, and oppressive regime, namely the Monarchy, to create and build a political regime that have served and protected everyone. It is called Democracy.
During World War II, we commoners died in the millions to fight dictatorships to protect Democracy.
The Unites States of America was founded on those democratic ideas and principles and firmly committed itself to them by adopting the Declaration of Independence and ratifying the Constitution. It has developed a most humane and enlightened body of law. It has shown itself to be the best political system humankind has known and lived in. It may not mean much for billionaires as they own ranch land half the size of Montana, or many skyscrapers in Chicago, or a few coal mines, or many manufacturing facilities, or assets spanning the country. They don’t even know how to spell Democracy, which may in fact interfere with their idiosyncrasies.
White folks have sought solutions for immediate short-term problems (that could have definitely been solved in a democratic, more enlightened way), and voted MAGA into office based on their aggressive promises to provide solutions. Now, it has been shown that MAGA, with the supports of billionaires, has a different agenda that could destroy their ancestors’ centuries of effort to build a long-lasting system guaranteeing freedom and happiness for their offspring – and for mankind.
MAGA and the billionaires are, amazingly, enamored and obsessed with two outmoded and condemned political systems: the dictatorship in Russia and North Korea, and the modern-day slavery policy practiced by the Arabs, the so-called guest workers system of getting foreigners (immigrants) working for them for subsistence pay without any political rights or social protection. Europeans, Canadians, Chinese, and Mexicans be damned. MAGA has made new very good friends.
The Constitution has given Americans, white or non-white, an effective mechanism to protect themselves and their descendants: the vote. In about one and a half years, that vote will decide if MAGA would still be in power, the Potomac River crowded with 700-foot yachts, Burji Khalifar II rising above the Washington Monument, private clubs and associations off limit to commoners growing like mushrooms all over the country, Russians eating caviar, drinking Vodka, and sunbathing on the Capitol Grounds. American common folks would not dare to travel abroad for fear of being stuck at the borders, would pay $3000 for a cell phone and send their children to city colleges as universities, which are being punished for being woke, lose subsidies and foreign students, and will be forced to charge exorbitant tuition to survive.
Voting right was the country’s Founding Fathers’ precious gift to the American common folks as a shield and a sword to protect a safe and fostering environment, which is a free democratic society.
MAGA has openly adopted strategies anathema to Democracy. It pursues and punishes real and perceived enemies whether they are immigrants, objectors, or bastions of high education. They have tried to get rid of immigrants as many and as fast as can be done to create a fait accompli, before the American conscience can intervene. The white majority is now 75% of the U.S.’s total population. After MAGA is done, and with the first wave of white South Africans opening the door for more white immigrants to enter the U.S., the white majority will easily reach 90% or more, soon.
MAGA’s mindset is not just making America isolated but smaller, as little connection and interaction with the outside world as possible.
When my wife and I were in Italy not long ago, we were having dinner at the Machiavelli Restaurant (or a restaurant on the Machiavelli Estate) in Florence, the entertainers of the evening was a young Italian couple. During a break, they approached our table of six or eight patrons, two Vietnamese, us, and the rest being white. They asked, “Are you Americans,” then smiled at us, the Vietnamese. They were controlled in manner and expression but obviously enthusiastic and impressed by the fact that an Asian looking couple WAS American. My wife was very happy to confirm. The rest of the evening, they performed American songs. At the end of the evening, they took pictures with us.
That is the America we want to preserve and promote. Wherever we Americans go, people welcome us with affection and admiration. The world has seen America as an embodiment of goodness, strength, and generosity, NOT of the race.
Do you think the world will now behave the same way when they see us? Does MAGA’s America seemingly look, to them, small-minded, petty, withdrawn, and scared?
This is our country, and Democracy is our legacy. Use your vote to restore, preserve and promote the EXCEPTIONALISM of America.
JOHN P. LE PHONG (This article can be read on Facebook, X, and thelephongjournal.com)
