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 get together” 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, Large Pharma, Silicon Valley, Wall Avenue, the fossil fuels business, and the military-industrial complicated.
Whereas most Democrats apparently imagine in obligatory injections of experimental vaccines, vaccine passports, and dictatorial CDC/Fauci/Gates/Pentagon management over well being and financial insurance policies, Republicans have not too long ago 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 faculties, 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 eradicate ladies’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 comparable 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 Pace” 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 secure and efficient (even for college students, kids, pregnant ladies, and infants who face little danger 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, relatively than negotiation, prolonging the distress and loss of life of a struggle 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 just a few 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-Large 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 folks) 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” primarily based upon a non-diagnostic COVID PCR check.
Leaders of each events, ignoring the science, have tried to inform us that solely Trump/Biden “Warp Pace” experimental vaccines (ineffective and inflicting severe and lethal uncomfortable side effects for tens of millions), rushed to market would be capable of “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 primarily based upon Regeneration, relatively than “enterprise as standard” and “politics as standard.”
OCA and our allies imagine {that a} international awakening and Grassroots Rising, primarily based upon the ideas and practices of regenerative meals, farming, and land-use, has the superior potential to encourage and provoke a multi-partisan, multinational, populist Motion—Democrat, Impartial, 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 could have the ability to “make the polluters pay” and stimulate an enormous switch (divestment) of presidency and personal capital away from degenerative practices (unhealthy, highly-processed meals, manufacturing facility 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 standard,” we should as an alternative embark on a local-to-global transformation. We should determine regenerative finest practices for meals, farming, land use and well being, and unlock the funds to scale these finest 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 power revolution, will re-stabilize the local weather by decreasing greenhouse fuel air pollution and drawing down extra CO2 (at present 419 ppm) from the ambiance, 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 programs and revitalize public well being (each bodily and psychological), deliver collectively our fractured physique politic, restore rural financial livelihoods, create jobs, and cut back the financial pressures that result in compelled migration.
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