Our Responsibilities

Will uncle Mackey be visiting Thursday? Nothing you say or do will persuade him to rethink his allegiance to the strongman he adores. Yelling rage, and condemning curses are of no use, are they now, to get along and just enjoy the turkey?

Although you may be predisposed to talk about all the rights, all human individuals should possess, daily, about the world, as basic, you would probably start saying words like …

As many minds think in the US of A, today, autocratic motivations are upsetting.

Millions upon millions reject undemocratic interests and actions in our country, in our state governments, and on our local school boards. Oh yeah, there are without a doubt those trying to lead others, with their sole energy in the manipulation, control, and rule over the sensible majority of citizens.

You may say it is our obligation and moral directive to justly align ourselves with the goodness of human aspiration, identifying the mischievous persons that seek domination of all others, isolating their rhetoric, and with legal authority, diminish their advances. These acts can be performed with words, ideas and ideals, free from violence and hatred and domination!

The experts suggest about a third of any given population will blindly follow strongmen. Uncle Mackey is by all accounts one in the thirty percent.

If so, why?

Our duty is formidable, needed now, essential to the extension, in this country, of democracy.

You ask yourself, “Have I hidden in shadows of apathetic voicelessness, in the shade of radical capitalism, in the dark confines of the corporate subclasses, thus allowing unfettered oligarchists to flourish at the cost of everyone else, most likely the poor and vulnerable among us?

Does a human being have any rights that are associated with their existence on the earthly plain? Do they include fundamental entitlements and protections that are inherent to all individuals, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, gender, or other characteristics?

You say you have read and been taught, yes, we do have rights and protections, but how about those who do not share this viewpoint? If so, why? Why is it we seem not to arrive at the plateau of harmonic understanding of diversity?

Civil and Political

The bully dictator does not care about one’s civil nor political principles. The autocrat may speak to the individual’s ability to a secure life, to the right to life, to a position in life of allowing individual liberty to be free to express oneself, in one’s own belief, one’s ability to gather together with others; and the right to endeavor in free and fair elections. The truth is however, he/she does not care about any of this, outside his/her circle.

Take for instance the 2023 November 7th Vote in Ohio. The republican controlled Ohio general assembly, a day after the citizens of Ohio with a majority amend the constitution of the state, the politicians made movement to overrule and reject the citizenry by proposing to do away with court oversight.

“Instead of having judges and justices do their job by evaluating abortion issues, the lawmakers want to strip them of their duties due to perceived “mischief by pro-abortion courts,” they said in a news release published on the website for Ohio House Republicans.”

This is not the first time the Ohio GOP rule-makers have broken laws recently.

Is uncle Mackey saluting ‘Republican Fascist Party flag now?

Social, Economic, and Cultural

The teeny tiny mind of the autocrat makes sure that’s the efforts of people organizing labor will fail, that social media will lead to users to follow his/her radicalizing algorithms, making sure the poor remain poorer. Rather than universal health care for all, lives are diminished by creating rules that relinquish sound, safe and necessary medical environs.

Banning books is his/her first step to rewriting history, to keep untruths front and center to the mass of the population. Housing the wealthy takes precedence leaving adequate standards for all others, to decline, to be unregulated and unaffordable.

Equality

Today in the US of A there exist autocratic minded individuals that treat all other individuals without equality, disregarding written law, natural law, logic and God.

In the same US of A, the 14th Amendment to the country’s Constitution shields us from exposure, injury, damage, or destruction against prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment, no matter our race, our color, our national origin, our sex, our religion, or our age.

Freedom from Torture and Inhuman Treatment

Are you listening to uncle Mackey defending the rascals who provide no freedom from torture, nor restrictions of unethical actions toward humans, but instead order heartless, inhuman, often degrading, humiliated actions, by imposing quirky agony on people.

Ask the last American Bush administration officials their take on torture, no?

Work and Fair Labor

The lackey supports the oxymoronic laws labeled “Right to Work”. These laws are no more than unfair labor rules to ensure wages do not meet livable standards, working at the place of employment are unsafe, and will not allow workers right to unionize.

Was King George III a “yob”, that is another word in English for a loutish, uncultured person? I for one I’m not certain on that specific call. It is said George was

gentle and decent, although exceedingly strict.

The Whigs in Parliament called him an autocrat, and Thomas Jefferson branded him a plundering tyrant.

Privacy

Has your individual privacy received unwarranted intrusion into your personal life? The despots often employ broad control to ascertain the extents of communications, and limiting personal civil liberties and constitutional rights in the name of maintaining order or preventing dissent. Just review the measures proposed in Project 2025 On page 682 of the far right autocracy document, the authors advocate the abolishing of the National Advisory Committee, and reevaluation all other committees, stating the “The committee is a hotbed for left-wing activists intent upon injecting racial and social-justice theory into the governing philosophy of the Census Bureau”.

Now Now … can you think of anything more intrusive into the personal lives of the citizenry than the manipulation and elimination of the distinguished doctoral advisory members, from around the globe, who’s only mission is discussing how best improve ten year census objectives, to help the best quality of life, for the mass of individuals throughout the US of A?

Bosses justify actions by alluding to the need for security or stability, however the stated intention is only a guise to significantly infringe on the right to privacy, surveil society to spy on citizens, suppress opposition, and maintain their warped grip on power.

Uncle Mackey just doesn’t care about privacy, or Project 2025, or being warped.

Asylum

Morally speaking, “The world’s religions all preach the importance of having compassion towards the needs and rights of refugees. Migration and exile are often central themes in narratives explaining the origin of a religion”

Bullies in power are displaced refugees, divorcing themselves from the Creator, through their persecution of others not conforming with the world views. And it isn’t just one rogue POTUS being despicable trying to maintain power when the majority reject his vision.

Look to Governors today in Florida, Ohio and Texas in the US of A. Cruel, nepotistic, and disreputable rules and strategies to treat displaced persons without dignity, without empathy, without basic necessities of living life, are the priorities the dictatorial actions manifest. Look to the replacement Speaker of the House and his Christofascist statements. Uncle Mackey won’t look.

In a state like Ohio extremist dogmatic lawmakers (kleptocrats) create illegal laws. In Ohio, as noted in the ACLU article “The Authoritarian Agenda Behind the Scheme to Attack Democracy and Abortion in Ohio”, subvert even the highest court in the State.

The news piece describes, “In 2015 and 2018, Ohio voters overwhelmingly passed two constitutional amendments to reform redistricting efforts and ban partisan gerrymandering in the state. Ohio Republicans blatantly ignored these new amendments, and redrew the state’s congressional and state legislative maps to favor their party and hoard political power by any means necessary. Despite the Ohio Supreme Court ruling seven different district maps unconstitutional, the GOP legislative majority ignored the court and ran elections using unconstitutional maps. This month’s special election is a page from the same authoritarian, make-up-your own-rules playbook.”

Human rights are consecrated in international treaties, laws and declarations, i.e. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and are vital for promoting dignity, equality, and justice for all individuals.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Education

What does the Ohio Constitution say about education? In Article VI, Section 4 | State board of education it says, “There shall be a state board of education which shall be selected in such manner and for such terms as shall be provided by law. There shall be a superintendent of public instruction, who shall be appointed by the state board of education. Ensuring access to quality education for all individuals.”

In a public Commentary by author Marilou Johanek en