10/11/2024
Why I Am Not Suspending My Campaign
Let me be clear: Despite the immense pressures and intense assaults on my campaign and character, I intend to hold the torch and finish this race - to and after November 5th! The escalating corruption of the US political system and the increasing civic rot of the American Empire requires a strong prophetic witness to Truth, Justice, and Love. The treacherous rules of this corporate-dominated, money-driven, greed-laden game can only lead to a full-blown fascism in the near future. The militaristic abandonment of morality - be it enabling barbaric genocide in Gaza or lethal Cop Cities throughout America - can only lead to World War III or Civil War II. With crude strategists at full tilt in the Republican, Democratic, and Green Parties, only a moral awakening, spiritual renaissance, and social revolution can turn us around! Yet I refuse to demonize those who deeply disagree with me. Although neither Harris nor Trump give a damn about nearly 20,000 precious Palestinian children slaughtered in less than a year or priceless US children (disproportionately Black) living in abject poverty, I do acknowledge that an anti-Trump vote for Harris is not identical to an anti-Harris vote for Trump in the swing states. Hard-won reproductive freedoms for women, the fragile peaceful transfer of power, and waning civil liberties for future grassroots organizing matter. So I take my castigated prophetic stand and invite others to think for themselves and come down where they may! Yet do not be deceived: The American empire dies every day it refuses to confront the militarism, racism, poverty, and materialism that is devouring what is left of its whimpering soul!
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