Sadly, each Democratic and Republican politicians within the U.S. seem to have misplaced contact with actuality and the wants of on a regular basis working class, center class, low-income, and rural communities. America’s political duopoly seems hell-bent on demonizing “the opposite occasion” for partisan acquire in the meantime working full-time for his or her respective donors within the billionaire class, with their major paymasters coming from company agribusiness, Huge Pharma, Silicon Valley, Wall Avenue, the fossil fuels trade, and the military-industrial advanced.
Whereas most Democrats apparently imagine in necessary injections of experimental vaccines, vaccine passports, and dictatorial CDC/Fauci/Gates/Pentagon management over well being and financial insurance policies, Republicans have just lately gained the help of many by speaking concerning the Structure, free speech, and folks’s proper to decide on whether or not to put on masks, shut down colleges, lockdown companies, and inject experimental medicine into their our bodies.
Sadly, probably the most vocal Republican champions of “freedom” are concurrently stepping up their efforts to get rid of girls’s rights to decide on abortion, persecuted migrants’ rights to asylum, and everybody’s proper to rein in prison polluters so we will co-exist with a clear surroundings and a secure local weather. Regardless of the plain catastrophe of the Biden administration’s response to COVID-19 (following very related practices carried out through the Trump administration), there was little or no self-criticism or admissions of error coming from the Democrats or their allies in Silicon Valley and the mass media. Republicans equally have now conveniently forgotten that it was the Fauci-led Trump NIAID (Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses) and NIH (Nationwide Institutes of Well being) that resumed funding to the disastrous Wuhan lab in 2017 that led to COVID, and that the equally disastrous “Warp Velocity” COVID vaccine program was championed, not simply by Fauci, Gates, and the vaccine profiteers, however by Trump and different Republicans in Congress.
In the meantime current polls point out that Democratic-leaning voters help authorities, Silicon Valley, and mass media surveillance and censorship (in far higher numbers than Republican-leaning voters); incorrectly imagine that experimental vaccines are protected and efficient (even for college students, youngsters, pregnant girls, and infants who face little threat from COVID); and approve of the unlawful, reckless, and unconstitutional actions of the CDC, NIH, FBI, and the CIA. Each events, with few exceptions (Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul) are actually calling for army escalation within the Ukraine, fairly than negotiation, prolonging the distress and dying of a battle that was preventable and which is now unwinnable. The bi-partisan cry to “bleed the Russians into submission,” is definitely a recipe for a nuclear holocaust.
Institution Democrats and Republicans (with a couple of exceptions) behaved like indentured puppets and Orwellian authoritarians through the COVID-19 disaster, completely failing to show the true origins, nature, virulence, prevention, and remedy of the SARS-CoV-2 lab-engineered virus. Each events went together with the Gates-Fauci-Huge Pharma narrative that the underlying diet-and environmentally associated comorbidities of COVID-19 victims (over 90% of all COVID deaths occurred in aged, overweight, or severely health-compromised individuals) are merely a “truth of life” that can’t be addressed, and proceed to lump collectively “dying from COVID” with a number of comorbidities to “dying with COVID” based mostly upon a non-diagnostic COVID PCR take a look at.
Leaders of each events, ignoring the science, have tried to inform us that solely Trump/Biden “Warp Velocity” experimental vaccines (ineffective and inflicting severe and lethal unwanted side effects for tens of millions), rushed to market would be capable to “save us.”
With Institution Democrats and Republicans persevering with to discredit themselves, Trumpers and Progressives alike, it’s time for a brand new grassroots rising. It’s time for a game-changing grassroots-powered politics based mostly upon Regeneration, fairly than “enterprise as typical” and “politics as typical.”
OCA and our allies imagine {that a} international awakening and Grassroots Rising, based mostly upon the rules and practices of regenerative meals, farming, and land-use, has the superior potential to encourage and provoke a multi-partisan, multinational, populist Motion—Democrat, Unbiased, and Republican; liberal, radical, conservative, and libertarian; rancher, farmer, and indigenous; city and rural; client and farmer; North and South.
As soon as it reaches important mass, a brand new united entrance may have the facility to “make the polluters pay” and stimulate a large switch (divestment) of presidency and personal capital away from degenerative practices (unhealthy, highly-processed meals, manufacturing unit farms, GMO seeds, chemical and energy-intensive agriculture, soil and environmental degradation, and rampant deforestation) to regenerative practices as an alternative.
As a substitute of shredding the Structure, destroying the Earth, undermining public well being, and impoverishing rural communities with “enterprise and politics as typical,” we should as an alternative embark on a local-to-global transformation. We should determine regenerative greatest practices for meals, farming, land use and well being, and liberate the funds to scale these greatest practices as much as important mass.
A Regeneration Revolution would require us to revitalize and re-carbonize our soils and vegetation; rehydrate our deserts and semi-arid lands; rejuvenate our forests; nurture soil fertility; cease erosion; recharge our floor water and aquifers; restore our wildlife and pollinizer habitats; and protect and restore our marine eco-systems.
This Nice Regeneration, alongside a renewable vitality revolution, will re-stabilize the local weather by decreasing greenhouse fuel air pollution and drawing down extra CO2 (presently 419 ppm) from the environment, returning this extra carbon to the place it belongs, in our soils and landscapes, using the miraculous energy of human stewardship, animal husbandry, and pure photosynthesis.
This regeneration of our lands and surroundings, in flip, will assist us restore our pure immune methods and revitalize public well being (each bodily and psychological), convey collectively our fractured physique politic, restore rural financial livelihoods, create jobs, and cut back the financial pressures that result in pressured migration.
