In these the waning days of summer of 2023, it is in my view imperative to address a task that beyond all others in my estimation is critically required to significantly mitigate the ferocious arguments and the intermittent lethal conflicts that currently beset our polity.

Though the grievances of numerous groups reflect widely dissimilar sources and a character and content that contain many variables that are unrelated, in some fundamental regard, they all share an intrinsic legitimacy in that their rage and criticisms are valid and in some essential context if we as a society are ever to transcend this moment of imminent cultural unraveling and implosion. these injustices must be addressed and diminished.

Among the members of our African-American cohort, did there exist the multi-century reality which commenced in enslavement and mutated into a virulent Jim Crow that endured for decades. This era subsequently yielded to a civil rights epoch that witnessed the political and economic pathologies in which they were imprisoned were in some partial regard ameliorated. However in the contemporary moment their descendants now reside in a republic that has reinvigorated the unembarrassed public expression of a rejuvenated racism and unceasing episodic acts of lethal violence, which are decimating their community.

The prejudices and discrimination which has endured for more than two centuries has produced a populace that remains in the basement of our democracy by virtually every measure of evaluation, i.e. economically, educationally, in terms of life span, crime infested physical environments, and for many among their ranks a perpetual presence in medical and psychological environments that are psychologically crippling and spiritually deforming.

Within another segment of our fellow citizens we encounter the descendants of the Native American tribes which long before the successive waves of European colonial subjugation found their way to this continent, lived in settlements and communities in which nature was revered and human dominion was not onerously implemented.

As our forebearers increased their numbers and our exploration of the territories that lay adjacent to the original 13 colonies increased, formal policies to evict this indigenous population from their historical residencies were deployed. In response to these draconian initiatives as they resisted this encroachment, they became victims of genocidal brutality and were ultimately coerced into involuntary residence in the Southwest and other geographic areas on reservations where many of their descendants continue to exist to this day, in misery and squalor.

Frequently various treaties which were formulated in concert with these tribes that ostensibly protected their civil rights and the management and ownership of valuable natural resources, were ignored or unilaterally abrogated by those in our national administration who were responsible for the welfare and viability of these groups.

Throughout the many decades in which they resided on these reservations in conditions of poverty and unabated anti-Indian sentiment, various afflictions beset their populations. Alcoholism became rampant, crime escalated, and from this atmosphere of social pathology an emasculated and dependent populace evolved.

Finally, we address that other segment of American society that has since the Reagan hegemony and the dynamic of globalization that has been in the ascendancy for more than four decades, are millions of workers in various manufacturing sectors of our economy who have been evicted from their status as employees in hundreds of those companies, who have relocated their facilities overseas to avail themselves of reduced labor costs and environmental regulations that are less invasive and substantive in their requirements.

It is in this component of our economy that the casualties that sustained these losses in their prolonged unemployment subsequent to the involuntary furloughs that were imposed upon them have suffered most severe financial injuries. The great majority of those who sere displaced were Caucasian males, with high school educations who resided in areas of this nation that were principally rural in character.

Thus, whether African-American in ethnic origin, or a member of an Native American tribe, or a Caucasian male who has been summarily ejected from the middle class, in some cumulative quantitative regard they comprise more than 50 million of our fellow citizens.

Though their tragic plights is attributable to very disparate causes, these groups share the deplorable similarity of a contemporary existence in this the most affluent society in the history of the human experience, that is composed of impoverishment, enormous suffering, and a future that is bleak and untenable, that has fostered and perpetuated a personal consciousness of hopelessness that often induces self-destructive behaviors or other social pathologies.

In a rational universe these entities would join forces to exert their influence in the political arena and ferociously advocate for those policies and programs that would ameliorate their collective impoverishment

However, the horrifically lamentable current circumstance finds the members of these constituencies in a fierce and unrelenting national conflict with each other in a state of cultural warfare, that seeks to dominate and dismember those who oppose their agendas and their most cherished objectives.

White supremacists engage in acts of violence against innocent Black citizens who are involved in the harmless daily activities that life demands of us all.

The adherents of a Trumpian perspective seek to cleanse school curricula and public libraries of texts that convey the totality of the historical American experience, and provide insights into the gay and LGBTQ normative frame of reference.

Other elements of the MAGA universe are rabid supporters of organizations who wish to elevate to both state supreme courts and of course our nation’s Supreme Court, conservative judges who will greatly diminish if not explicitly outlaw abortions and impede the regulatory power of government at all levels to pursue the implementation of a green revolution, and deploy ever- more comprehensive restrictions on the exploration and utilization of fossil fuels.

Their exertions are equally vigorous in the realm of state legislatures where legislative initiatives are introduced to further exacerbate the current Gerrymandered electoral configurations, in the quest to perpetuate Republican hegemonies in perpetuity.

Their lobbyists and those public officials who are perpetual recipients of the donations required to sustain their tenure in these bodies, are unfailingly opposed to those legislative initiatives which would levy reasonable and most warranted tax obligations on their mammoth incomes, with particular care to protect those in the financial sector of our economy from the mandated federal requirements which so many among us who derive their incomes from the wages that comprise their annual compensation as salaried employees in both the private and public sector are compelled to submit.

So too will those who serve the infinitesimal number of neoliberal plutocrats be certain to oppose any overtures to strengthen unions, diminish subsidies to the fossil fuel industries, and remain implacable foes of all attempts to mitigate the causes of global warming.

The preceding mammoth litany of actions and agendas that the reactionary forces and institutions that currently hold sway in this society are unalterably committed to sustaining, are those economic arrangements and political realities that have obtained since the Reagan hegemony , i.e. a democratic polity in name only,, ever- increasing inequality, and a cultural dynamic that renders impotent all our citizens whose names do not appear on the annual compilation of the oligarchs among us that Forbes magazine publishes, or comparable journalistic exercises.

However as central as their unremitting opposition is to implementing any aspect or facet of those policies and programmatic initiatives which ameliorate the fundamental inequities that are extant in our republic, there exists an additional major impediment to the requisite moral imperative of transforming our polity into an authentic equitable society, i.e. the absence of a majoritarian consensus and allegiance to an alternative macropolitical and a humanistic post-capitalistic economic system that contains the potential to remediate our contemporary social pathologies and our pervasive and entrenched structural injustices.

The single most imperative requirement to accomplish the transformation of America is to form a coalition and alliance that is impossible to decompose of those previously cited groups, e.g. our Native American populace, those who comprise our national community of African-American fellow citizens , and those who are the casualties of globalization and related economic dislocations and calamities.

From this movement with the energy and unwavering commitment to the irreducible and primary principles contained in the paradigm “MOBILIZING AMERICA,” which appears within the Vision category on my website, EquitableAmerica.com, and the strategies delineated in this proposal to translate this initiative into reality, the ultimate success of this crucial endeavor will be assured.

Let us join together in this noble and critical undertaking and finally through the unceasing exertions of our nation’s re-founding fathers and mothers, create an equitable democratic polity that reflects and embodies the normative content of all major theologies and the components of a robust and expansive humanistic creed.