While I'm not an excessive news-hound,
I recently saw a report on Newsy
about an alternative football (soccer to those in the U.S.) “World
Cup” that supposedly incorporates “countries” that are excluded
by FIFA. This organization actually includes a team from a place called
“Cascadia” - meaning Washington State, Oregon, and British
Coumbia, Canada.
Yes,
“Cascadia.”
Someone tell me, just how the fuck is "Cascadia" a country?
This
organization, called ConIFA or the Confederation of Independent
Footbal Associations represents itself as “progressive.”
Progressive how? To me, something that is "progressive" is something that unites. What they really are being is divisive,
and one of a multitude of so-called progressive movements on the left
that further fragments humanity.
There
is an old saying: “Divide and conquer.”
Every
time you hyphenate your ethnicity, your ancestry, your religious
beliefs; every time you fragment your cultural identity, your region,
your sexual-orientation, your loyalties; once you make yourself
separate from the whole, and then make “demands” to be recognized
as separate by “requiring” certain words to describe you, you are
making it easier for the 1% to control and conquer you. And that 1%
is not, I repeat, is not a conservative majority.
Many of the
uber-wealthy present themselves as liberal – up until you start
tapping their pocketbook and calling them to share more of the
wealth. At that point, they become more reactionary than Trump on a bad hair day. Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates of
Microsoft, Elon Musk of Tesla and Paypal, Tim Cook of Apple, Jeff
Bezos of Amazon... All control-freaks, all wishing to control you,
what you think, what you buy, where you go, how you live. (Oh, and a few years prior to his running for the Republican nomination, Trump would have been on that list as well because he was a registered Democrat and identified as liberal, verbally and monetarily supporting Hillary Clinton's Senate bid.)
Those listed above encourage this divisiveness by “supporting” these causes,
encouraging them to "branch out" and fragment. Why? Because the more we become divided, the more we
bicker, the more that minorities make demands, then the more that we find
ways of being “different” from one another and that distracts us
from what should be our overall goal: uniting as a people to make
sure all in this world are treated fairly, making sure that all are
fed, educated and have access to good healthcare.
We
should be homogenizing, not separating.
Stop dividing. Stop hyphenating. Stop fragmenting. Stop being stupid.
