My America First 2024 sign is now out of the closet and on my front lawn.
It was a matter of time before this was going to happen.
I think the analogy in the headline is humorous and appropriate, because today I made the choice to come out of the America First closet. Hello! Today I created Avo Americano on several platforms and posted my first Instagram reel of me talking about my America First values. I’ll soon get a secondary iPhone which I’ll use for TikTok, because we’ve got to help educate our lost youth and that’s where they are! (Not in a thousand years would I ever use my personal phone for TikTok given their highly perilous, pro-CCP Terms of Service, but I digress).
My name is Avo and I’m from America. Most of my friends know I’m conservative, but I haven’t really come out with videos of myself talking about my most vibrant America First values. But that’s changing because I must speak, I must share, I must let the pent up energy flow. I’ve been witnessing too much government coercion and subversion of our values, and seen too many good people coerced because of it. It’s clear to me that as Americans we have a duty to speak up when tyranny reaches our shores. And it’s here.
Ever since I can remember I’ve been someone who would question authority. I remember often challenging my teacher, asking questions like “Why do we need to know this?” or “Is there another way to do this?” Most teachers didn’t like it. Learning was hard for me, because I’m dyslexic. I learned my mind works differently, meaning I don’t think linearly. Rather, I see a mosaic of ideas, and then try and connect them. Most of the time ordinary tasks take me longer to complete than most folks, and can be stressful. However, sometimes I get a shimmer of greatness, when two seemingly unrelated parts of the mosaic come together and become clear, relevant and sometimes forms a brilliant thought.
My younger years were filled with trauma around not being able to read, going to a special school to learn a new approach to reading where we drew letters in a sandbox, and where I eventually mastered reading and writing by the 4th grade. This core childhood experience led me to embrace learning differently as a visual, auditory, and an outside-the-box thinker. As time went on I became attracted to these types of thinkers, whether they were a professors or a culture icon. People like Stephen Spielberg on film making and movies, or Steve Jobs on creativity and entrepreneurship.
As time passed I became more interested in politics and culture. I searched for anyone with a different view that ran counter to what everyone else was saying. The mainstream narrative was unavoidable, and it echoed that “terrorists attacked America in 2001, and they needed to pay.” But was there more to the story? Like a broken compass looking for true north, I searched for alternative opinions for my course correction. From Howard Zinn’s critique of American Capitalism, Michael Moore’s critique of America’s Foreign Policy, to Steve Bannon’s critique of Systemic Corporatist Corruption in American Government. Sometimes its important to listen to the underdogs, and they change over time. And so does my political consciousness, which has moved from Independent, Democrat, to Republican.
And now America First. The party I understand to be the future of our nation. America First is about unity, a strong middle class, a united people, and a strong citizenry enlightened by Liberty. America First commemorates a time in history when America was greater than it is today, a rather controversial statement, considering the horrific atrocities done to the Native Peoples of America and to the African peoples who were brought here as slaves. A horrific and unavoidable part of our history. With this in mind, let us remember that slavery was an unfortunate part of nearly every great nation’s history. A practice that China, a nation adored by many Democrats and Republicans alike, still practices today.
But America was never great. American’s are a murderous people with a genocidal past. The only solution is to overturn society and replace capitalism with stakeholder capitalism. That’s the only way we can address the vile, systemic racism ever-present in our institutions and society at large.
Can I ask you something? How would you discipline your hypothetical son if you found out after the fact that he was bullying another student, to the extent that the student took her own life because of it. No matter the case, the solution IS NOT to disown your son and give him away to foster care. You don’t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater (the baby being your son’s good heart which is still there somewhere, though likely fractured in pieces). That boy needs support, therapy, good parenting, love and compassion. Applying this apology to America, the baby is our Republic which, with its unique one-of-a-kind structure, of separated powers in government, expanded rights of its citizens, and great emphasis on Liberty and Individual Responsibility, has lifted more people of all races, backgrounds, and believes out of poverty and into an enlightened & empowered upstanding citizen.
The problem is that everyone in American society hasn’t always agreed on whether all races and genders are effectively to be considered citizens. Native America, Italians, and African Americas were famously segregated from society and didn’t have the right to basic societal freedoms such as eating at restaurants, having bank accounts or voting. But that has changed, because today if you are born in or immigrate to the United States legally, you are a citizen and equally protected to other citizens under the law. This is a fact.
Sure, but is America perfect? No. Is there still work to do? Yes.
May our higher power, (in my case, God), help us recognize the progress we’ve made, while we continue to hold our government officials accountable when they fail us, especially those who claim to be “for the people”, but have a voting record that proves otherwise. It seems Dan Crenshaw may be one of these double agents, what do you think? Ultimately, may we realize that the model of the Republic isn’t the problem. Rather, it’s the solution. The problem is that our capitalist system has morphed into a corporatist system, and therefore a fascist one.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." — Benito Mussolini
Let us be course corrected by the unfortunate yet wise words of Benito Mussolini, one of the most prolific fascists in world history, who correctly calls fascism the perfect merger of State and Corporate power. Think of Fox News parroting the Bush Administration’s claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq post 9/11, which gave the state an all access pass to take Iraq with aggressive force. Today, think of the repeated soundbites on every mainstream network disseminated from government bodies like the CDC and The WHO to “flatten the curve” and “stay inside for the greater good” which coerced the minds of hundreds of millions of people if not billions of people, leading to the bankruptcy of countless businesses, family fortunes lost, and an innumerable amount of depressions, broken lives and marriages, and deaths and suicides to accompany them.
It’s time we move on to a new model, putting the American Republic First. Any politician who represents the old model of coercion “for the greater good” (a narrative excused by the Democratic Party and the Rhino Republicans [together, the Uni-party]) should be highly scrutinized and suspect, and for good reason. What we need now are individuals to take a courageous stand against the outcry of tyrannical leaders, and say, “I trust in the goodness of the human spirit and I have come to restore our Republic, to learn from our shortcomings and build on the greatness of our nation, with the goal of making it even greater, with more abundance for all of its citizens”.
But we must first defeat these tyrants who thrive from the fascistic union of state and corporate power. The only remedy is the courage of the individual. As students of history and believers in the goodness of the human spirit, we know the only way fascists rise to power is through lies and deceit, posing as the angel of light in hard times. And so, if We the People stand courageously in their path we will leave them with a decision to make. Accept defeat, admit their wrong doings and hand power back to the citizens, or proceed to topple them. Rest assured, both outcomes will show the world their true tyrannical nature, and not even the most purple haired, outlandish leftist will be able to deny it.
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