Remarks concerning the 2024 Presidential Election

“The biggest challenge that Americans face today is that our politicians warn us that if we are not careful we will lose our democracy, we will become an increasingly totalitarian country. It is precisely such lies and desembling that deeply compromises all political action in the United States.

The citizens of the United States have been living under a dictatorship of run by investment banks, IT corporations, private equity and the strategic teams of billionaire families for the last two decades, and it is getting much, much worse. They are clamoring for a world war that will give them the authority to lock us all up and to take over a militarized economy.

We do not need politicians who tell us we might lose our democracy if we do not support Biden. We need politicians who tell us the bitter truth that we already live in a totalitarian society and who suggest concrete ways we can rebuild our institutions.

What we need is brave citizens who call a dictatorship a dictatorship, who say they will restore the rule of law brick by brick because there is no rule of law.

I ask you, honestly, do you think that a candidate advocating for the rule of law can get enough money from the rich to get on the ballot? Do you think that such a candidate will be covered by CNN, or even by Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan? You already know the answer to that question.

No diverse and inclusive, sustainable and robust dictatorship, no steel fist of IT control dressed up in a fuzzy rainbow multicultural glove, is going to allow a candidate who follows the Constitution to be covered in the media, to serve as an option for citizens.

Does that mean we just go home and cry to ourselves? No! It means that we stand firm until our determination starts to alter the flow of the river of history. Like water, the pressure of our commitment to truth, the push of our moral imperative, will slowly, invisibly, eat its way through rock. There will be no Hollywood big event. But history never works that way.

The first rule in politics is not “befriend as many billionaires as possible and say what Youtube will allow you to say.” The first rule in politics, in life, must be “stand your ground.”

Emanuel Pastreich

April 1, 2024