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Wishing independence for a real America
Yesterday, was Independence day in America, the land of opportunities.
An America where Bezos is hailed as a hero, instead women and men couriers who, in the midst of the pandemic’s rage, jerked as flipper balls from house to house to bring us groceries and make us feel more secure.
An America where the stellar sums paid by citizens to insure their health are redistributed within the narrow circle of insurance and pharmaceutical companies shareholders, while nurses and doctors struggle for more than 12 hours a day being paid barely higher than the average wage.
An America where the dejected bring down statues, erasing collective memory, while idolising Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Facebook, and Microsoft who are creating a new memory of their own, moulded to facilitate their new dictatorship.
An America where the above ‘Silicon Six’ pay no, or little, Federal Taxes, and where congresspersons meet yearly, with sad faces, and announced they had to raise the Federal debt ceiling.
An America where the incontrovertible science about men’s action on climate is ridiculed as a Communist conspiracy and a Swedish handicapped girl’s path to popularity.
An America where we censor “Gone with the Wind”, because it is so much easier than telling todays’ real…
