A Moral Decision-Voting

Your vote was a moral decision. Whether we vote or not, it’s a moral decision. How we vote is as well. So, when you vote with a Lasse Faire attitude, that outcome too will be on your soul. It’s not whether you believe in a hereafter. Nor is it whether you are religious, agnostic or an atheist. It’s who you are deep inside, that is what it shows.[1]

If you think you’re entitled to enslave, dehumanize, oppress other people in anyway in the world, citizens of your country, or your own community, think again. You’re not. This is not just in the United States Constitution.[2] It’s also in many religious books, books on philosophy and it is written in our hearts and minds. And to negate that—is the most harm a person can do to not only others, yet it is also harm to oneself. It is pure evil.

As U.S. matured, much bias was fought, marginally knocked down. There are other countries as well as our own citizens who wanted to destroy what we’ve built and were continually building up until 2017.  Yes, we had to work through quite a bit of tribalism. Yet, we were slowly succeeding at creating more of a free and healthier country for all U.S. citizens and people awaiting citizenship.

They damaged this country: Not just those voters led by their noses due to their lack of a desire to read and study or focused on one issue. Some of those same voters wanted to be fed lies, so they didn’t have to think for themselves, even though they think that they do. It’s human to have tribalistic thoughts. It’s quite inhumane to propagate those thoughts with no proof.[3] Too, harming the welfare of others because they think differently is also inhumane. We’ve done enough of that even prior to the Revolutionary War in the U.S., and thereafter.

Who are the others in being complicit in damaging the democracy of the United States of America? Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, C. Everett Koop, Ralph Reed, Franklin Graham, Steve Bannon, our current POTUS, and so many others.[4] Bill O’Reilly is another one. He admitted that the questioning of the birthplace of President Obama was a joke.[5][6] That he and others knew that they were pushing that falsehood about President Obama.[7]

Frank Schaeffer, Jr., admitted it was wrong to steer the people in this country to the far right, and towards his father’s belief systems.[8][9][10]

To quash a dictator, an authoritarian and the like, you don’t go after one person for such admitted falsehoods hurting the country, costing people their jobs, their health and their lives. You legally go after their sycophants, their ‘starters’, every dollar that supported them, you legally it take away. Then you make certain that they are physically imprisoned for treasonous acts against ‘We the People’ of the U.S.

Mikhail Gorbachev had said nearly 40 years ago that the people of the Soviet Union were not ready for Perestroika and Glasnost.[11][12] These two words were part of what Gorbachev wanted for the Russian people back then (1980’s) to end the Era of Stagnation, as he’d declared. That meant incorporating freedom of speech, free trade, more transparency along with more openness into the rights of the Russia people.

The U.S. is not doomed. We want freedoms, all must have them as citizens and people desiring citizenship in these United States. An example of regaining a democratic state after a brief rule of dictatorship would be South Korea.[13][14]

It takes little to destroy a democracy. Perhaps months, weeks, or days. It takes quite a bit more time and effort to build one. Perhaps decades or longer.----Jody-Lynn Reicher

 

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[1] https://youtu.be/HGekHCa1fDA?feature=shared

[2] https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies

[4] https://youtu.be/HGekHCa1fDA?feature=shared

[5] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/firing-line/video/bill-oreilly-wtkwfn/

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20170222194249/https:/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-try-to-scotch-birther-theories/2011/04/19/AFsrhU8D_story.html

[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/obama-cracks-birther-jokes-at-trumps-expense/2016/09/18/2e07e224-7d45-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_video.html

[8] https://youtu.be/HGekHCa1fDA?feature=shared

[9] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/godinamerica/interviews/frank-schaeffer.html

[10] https://thebridgehead.ca/2016/03/10/the-paradox-of-franky-schaeffer/

[11] https://www.britannica.com/topic/glasnost

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/world/asia/south-korea-democracy-martial-law.html

[14] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/04/south-korea-martial-law-drama-yoon-suk-yeol-history-of-coups-military-rule