My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China

 My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China

Sixth District Congressman Sean Casten, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, all cast their votes to spend $95 billion that will likely get hundreds of thousands more killed in Ukraine and Gaza. Since this massive tranche of wasted weapons dough has to be borrowed, it will help sour US debt past $35 trillion, representing 122% of US GDP.

To add to the unfathomable death and destruction of Ukraine and Gaza, their votes ramp up possible military confrontation with our imagined enemy China.

Casten, Duckworth and Durbin are not outliers in the Democratic Party. They joined nearly the entire Democratic ranks in the House and Senate to squander our treasure to further destroy two peoples who deserve better.

They know the $61 billion for Ukraine will not prevent Ukraine’s impending defeat with over a half million soldiers dead, no hope of victory, and economy and infrastructure in ruins. They know the $26 billion for Israel will further the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and likely the West Bank as well. They know China is an imagined enemy that may be provoked into a real enemy with the $8 billion in weaponry for Taiwan and other pretend US allies in the region.

Only Casten, Duckworth and Durbin know why they’ve sold their souls as public servants to promote endless war, carnage and genocide as core US policy. Money? Power? Political ambition? Belief in US empire and exceptionalism?

Whatever, they have disgraced themselves as public servants by ignoring the desire of the voting majority demanding peace, not war; investment in the Homeland, not wanton destruction worldwide.

Voters in the IL Sixth District and throughout Illinois, must push back fervently against these out of control war enablers. We must hold their shame up to them at every opportunity. Those who remain silent become Ukraine and Gaza's silent executioners.