Governor JB Pritzker comes out swinging
Illinois governor JB Pritzker gave a very powerful concluding statement in his recent speech to the Illinois legislature. The governor spoke out about the increasing tide of fascism in America:
“I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now.
A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.”
“I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next’? “All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.”
Governor Pritzker’s words are a powerful warning message to America. I hope he considers a run for President.
