History will not vindicate Biden for role in genocide
responsible for the rise of the Southern States, despite the demands from Abolitionists in the original Northern states to refuse slave owners who controlled the Southern regions to join the developing USA without committing to the abolition of slavery.
Buchanan insisted it was their constitutional right to do so, and to establish the laws of their own states.
He, therefore, facilitated the growing number of Southern slave states that ultimately formed the confederacy bloc to protect slavery.
His ‘error of judgment’ led ultimately to the American Civil War. Buchannan maintained to the end of his days that history would vindicate him. History did not.
Joe Biden will undoubtedly go to his grave believing he did the ‘right thing’ in supporting Israel to and beyond the point of complicity in genocide, and potentially another global war. History will not vindicate him
either.
The Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in a small boat in 1620 facing the dangers of the Atlantic seeking refuge from persecution and a better life. The USA was founded on Native
American soil on July 4, 1776.
Slavery was abolished in 1865. White women and Black men secured the right to vote in 1920.
Black women and other women of colour waited another 50-odd years for the obstacles deliberately put in place to limit the exercise of that right to be removed by law.
The indigenous population of the USA who survived the colonisation and the war, pestilence, and famine it brought upon them, were not granted citizenship in their own country until 1924.
The US presidential election is a competition between two men unfit for office.
Trump, who currently holds the dubious honour of being the third worst president in the USA, and Biden, the man who after more than 150 years, will probably replace Buchanan as the worst US president ever.
Wasn’t it a long way down?
Elections are underway closer to home than in the USA.
EU parliament elections in the European Union to which the UK no longer belongs will be on June 7 in the Irish Republic.
In Britain, that part of the UK to which Northern Ireland never belonged, England and Wales had local elections last week putting more pressure on Rishi Sunak to call a Westminster election, while Scotland narrowly avoided
Assembly elections.
Despite pretensions otherwise, the islands of Great Britain and Ireland are two small islands off the mainland of Europe and it’s a small world so the outcome of these elections will impact the politics here.
The depth and strength of our humanity and integrity are being tested by the number of crises gathering momentum on the world stage.
Palestine, refugees and the drive towards never-ending war top the list. They are not unrelated.
Racism, fascism and a growing disregard for International Law will not resolve poverty but will feed on it.
Those who don’t care will, as the children’s nursery rhyme warns, be made to care as all of this increasingly impacts on our daily lives.
This island is not poor.
The poverty and disadvantage suffered by those living here results directly from the political choices governments make in refusing to face down those hoarding wealth the generations of their descendants could not spend, and relieving them of the political power they exercise in keeping themselves wealthy.
We need to start looking urgently at a whole-island economy and a political system of government that shares the wealth and resources of the island more equally.
If we don’t start soon, there are harder days yet to come in this place.