OPINION:
Tom Basile is correct (“Voting is just the first step for Americans to save America,” Web, Nov. 4). This week’s elections were “[t]he most important election of our lifetime,” but there are important issues that have not been discussed. And they cannot be resolved by a majority vote leading to a more perfect union unless laws are consistent with the truths that we hold to be self-evident.
Billions were spent on partisan ads that ignored our nation’s precise predicament. Elections only boost voters’ hopes that their party will succeed in halting the other party’s priorities. Meanwhile, disturbing trends in weather, war, immigration, hunger, crime, misinformation, the endless evolution of weapons and pathogens and more all continue to worsen. This is unsustainable.
The accelerating evolution of weaponry and pathogens alone will crush any hope that ‘democracy’ can protect our borders. Democracy is delusional and security is an illusion. Everything in interconnected. Only investors in weaponized technology, building seawalls, rebuilding infrastructure, running elections and creating partisan ads will prosper. Dark money, cryptocurrency and offshore accounts will not survive the chaos.
The best most can hope for are mutually assured deficits and destruction. Protecting ’national sovereignty’ and every nation’s ‘special interests’ over fundamental human rights and the environment is unsustainable.
Populist movements feed on voter ignorance. Global problems cannot be resolved by independent nations if political parties are more committed to winning elections. Elections must lead to codifying laws consistent with “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” Swearing an oath to the Constitution is folly.
CHUCK WOOLERY
Rockville, Maryland
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