NJ Progressive

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Posting stuff I care about. “Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil” Courage is contagious!

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
These actions abroad mirror what the Trump administration is doing at home. In its first year, the administration has attacked civil rights and speech, carried out arbitrary arrests and detentions, deployed armed federal agents into communities, destroyed key government agencies, transferred massive wealth to the ultra-rich, politicized the judiciary and military, carried out extrajudicial executions, and centralized power in the executive. Each of these actions is a part of an unprecedented shift in political and social norms that move the U.S. closer toward authoritarianism.
Hashtag No War With Iran