Why We Must Oppose the Extreme, Right-Wing, Supremacy Agenda

They are trying to steal our children from us and condemn them to a life of misery

Hello Friends!

I'm disturbed by the things that I see going on in the United States of America today. The problem is that influential and powerful people from all walks of life are trying to push a supremacy agenda.

They don't call it that, but that's what it is.

They are motivated by an outdated and discredited ideology. They cling to the remnants of a historical past that was never anything more than an ugly lie. They're allowed to openly discuss the unsubstantiated assumptions that form the basis of their beliefs without ever facing any challenges.

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This has to change.

We can no longer allow their lies to go uncontested.

The simple fact is that we're losing our young men to this movement. Our young men are being indoctrinated with a kind of toxic masculinity that prevents them from ever being able to form healthy relationships.

You see this happen all the time. Slick looking newscasters come on screen and ridicule boys for doing such things as drinking soda through a straw.

This is absurd.

Our young men are so confused and angry that many of them end up succumbing to an ideology of terrorism. This is the only nation in the world that routinely has to endure the tragedy of school shootings, and those horrors persist because we fail to address the underlying cause.

This is a supremacy problem.

The concept of supremacy has been woven into the fabric of our cultural identity. Like a cancer, it's growing. Like a cancer, it will kill us. It's time that we recognized that the cancer has to be extracted.

This is a nation that built its wealth through genocide and slavery. Today, that wealth is being hoarded by a handful of men at the expense of us all. These men justify their excess by claiming that they are “supreme.”

But supremacy is a lie, and we have to educate our children that if they succumb to the lie of supremacy it will destroy them.

Like any drug, supremacy is intoxicating. It feels good to think of yourself as all-knowing, all-powerful, and never wrong. It feels good to think of yourself as superior.

But that's wrong. That's hubris. That's self-denial. That attitude is toxic.

You are not an island. You are a member of the human race. You didn't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Kind people helped you, and you owe the members of your compassionate community a debt of gratitude that you must pay forward.

The human race will prevail because we learn to selflessly lift each other up.

The human race begins to fail every time we delude ourselves into justifications for holding each other down.

That's the essence of supremacy. It's a delusional justification to discard empathy and indulge in acts of cruelty.

We like to think of our nation as “exceptional.” We like to think of our nation as “the best.” But our nation has problems, and we can't allow ourselves to be blind to those problems because we're intoxicated by the lie of supremacy.

Today, there are many small groups who loudly proclaim their right to direct and control the lives of those that belong to marginalized groups.

That we divide ourselves into groups is part of the problem. That's a component of the mechanism of supremacy. Malicious forces trick us into opposing our neighbors rather than helping them. People have become indoctrinated to find joy in celebrating the downfall of others, rather than uniting in a common goal of mutual prosperity.

That's the lie of supremacy.

Through it you come to believe that the only way for you to succeed is if others fail. But it doesn't have to be that way. If we embrace the ideology of mutual prosperity, we can all have more than even the most privileged have today.

Imagine a world where every brilliant mind has the opportunity to make her or his peak contribution to the intellectual advancement of the human race.

Consider all that we would have, if every gifted child was allowed to put aside her or his fear of paying for education, and instead dedicate themselves completely to study and intellectual advancement.

But we deny our children the chance of an education out of a false loyalty to the fraudulent concept of supremacy.

Supremacy has flourished like a cancer because we refuse to practice accountability.

We refuse to do anything about it.

It started with the fraudulent invention of racism.

It has spread to misogyny.

It has fueled a movement of anti-intellectualism.

Everything it touches dies, and yet many people hoist the banner of supremacy without realizing they make themselves champions of their own demise.

We don't even talk about it. Gatherings of our citizens begin to hush and mutter when you broach the topic.

But defeating the right-wing supremacy agenda is the challenge of our lifetime. It has to end. We have to recognize that we cannot allow ourselves into becoming accomplices in our own destruction. The fleeting high you get from thinking you're “better” than your fellow human beings is poor compensation for giving up your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We can't allow ourselves to be seduced by the power of hatred. We can't permit nefarious forces to spread lies about immigrants, or the LGBTQ+ community, or women, or the Black community, or people of other religions, or people who speak different languages, or people with an education, or any other of the fraudulent categories that have been created to obscure our comprehension of our shared humanity.

If we are all one, nobody can be supreme. We're together in this. We help each other.

That's the ideology we need! It seems self-explanatory, but the lies of supremacy are deceitful and the social mechanisms that protect them have been placed within a social blind spot we're conditioned not to perceive.

Stand for the anthem. Respect the nation. Respect tradition. Respect my deeply held personal beliefs.

Those are the concepts we have to challenge if we want to save our children.

But look around right now. People are angry. Your kids are frustrated because they don't know how to form attachments with other human beings. The problem is that they're intoxicated with the misconception that the only way they can ever be happy is if they defeat everyone they meet.

The truth is that happiness comes through cooperation. Happiness comes from equality. Happiness comes from recognizing we are all one people. We are all in this together. Life is short and challenging but it doesn't have to be torture.

We don't need to resign ourselves to the belief that there can be only one winner.

Instead, we can abandon the deceitful path of supremacy, and embrace a new path that allows everyone to win.

Don't you want that? Don't you want your children to win?

Fight supremacy in all its forms.

Embrace unity. Embrace empathy. Embrace cooperation. Embrace diversity. Embrace common decency. We aren't going to succeed until we discard the lies of history and adopt a mindset that gives everyone a chance.

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