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November 5, 2024

November 5, 2024

Democracy means that the people of a country decide their own future by their votes. Here in the United States of America we are about to see that concept move us in an alarming direction. There was more at stake in this election than the short term benefits of a low cost of living and status.

The great unmaking of what Franklin Delano Roosevelt called The New Deal and Lyndon Baines Johnson called The Great Society — along with separation of Church and State, our equal justice under the law judicial system, our healthcare system, our educational system, our rights of assembly, our free press, civil rights, environmental safeguards, social equality and more will all be unmade — due to the choices we collectively made on November 5, 2024.

Our movement as a country to a more just and equitable future for ourselves and the world have been unquestionably altered.

For almost one hundred years we have been on this journey from The New Deal to November 5, 2024 — taking us all toward our stated goal as a nation of, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…” — now it will be unmade.

The vision of a “…perfect Union…” that won out yesterday was not one that takes us toward a greater Justice, Tranquility, general Welfare, Liberty or better future for our Posterity — our children and grandchildren. Nor does it take us toward greater compassion, decency and equality but further away from it.

How will this unmaking effect our country? What will the effect be on our ecosystems? Our health. Our Planet? Our world community? The unmaking of the progress of our nation toward its stated goals can only make us lesser — not greater. The election on November 5, 2024 was not a victory for the USA, it was a ignoble defeat for our nation by our own hands.

Bernard Re, Jr.
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