Back in 1971 Marvin Gaye sand a song entitled "What's Going On". The song was a social commentary and a call for peace, addressing issues like the Vietnam War, poverty, drug abuse, environmental degradation and racial injustice. It offered a vision of unity and understanding as a solution to the world's suffering. I would recommend everyone today in 2025 to listen to the song and see how appropriate it is today here in America.
While our current President and his followers talk of making America great again, they seem to be taking us back to a time was war was a reality. It was Viet Nam then while it is Ukraiane and Gaza today. It was our fight against Communism in a foreign land then, while today we bow as Russia invades and try's to take over a sovereign nation and Isarael kills millions of civilian Palestinians as retribution of their government's military actions. They are both crimes against humanity.
Crime is up with police brutality against black lives and our President raging a war against immigrants. These are the people who helped to build our country and instead of improving our system for immigration and the way these people can become productive and have a road to citizenship, they have been demonized, rounded up like criminals, separated from their families and sent to foreign prisons. This is to make America more like the 1900's when it was ruled by white males and everyone else bowed to their power and perceived superiority.
Global warming is real and our planet is deteriorating, yet our leader's call it a hoax, because restraint cost them money and power. They now are divesting in environmental protections and alternate power sources to the age-old money makers coal and oil. They also want to isolate us from the world economy with a put America first policy by putting tariffs on "every other country" with hopes of bringing manufacturing back to the USA. What they fail to recognize it was their own policies of catering to the rich and allowing them to shelter profits and make profit overseas which has created this imbalance.
As I see the effort to distort history in schools and book bans my mind goes back the idea of how monarch rule. Win the children and control the narrative in the country. Misinformation and lies are posted so often that they are thought of as truths. After decades of vaccines being used to protect the public against diseases a small group of people can be placed in power to wipe it all away, with no need for proof or evidence that they are bad. I actually heard our Surgeon General in Florida say "who is the government or even I to tell you what to put in your body." You are a doctor and should be the exact person to tell me what medicine I need for my health based on scientific research, not some non-tested theory. to
"Brother,brother,brother there's far too many of you dying. You know we've got to find a way to bring some loving here today."
"War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate"
"Picket lines and picket signs, don't punish me with brutality"
"Mother,mother, everybody thinks we're wrong. But who are they to judge us because our hair is long"
What's going on,Yeah what's going on. Make you want to holler, throw up both your hands!!!!
Can we get the message?
