February 19

Opposing the War Machine

Howard Switzer
6 min readFeb 26, 2023

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Rage Against the War Machine! That was the name of the Peace Rally in DC on Feb. 19th. A few thousand people came out for it, all of them kind of wondering where everyone else was. There should have been a million, surely .003% of the population opposes the crimes of the war machine and the threat of nuclear war. Where were they?

They were stuck in division. The same insidious division that the system promotes to keep us all divided and unwilling to work together, right vs left, vaxed vs unvaxxed, Ford vs Chevy, you name it, we are divided on many levels. Elements of what’s left of the so-called left shunned the event as they didn’t want to “lock arms” with people they disagreed with on other issues. Many at the rally expressed the reason they came as being concerned about the threat of nuclear war and felt all the other issues paled in comparison to immediate annihilation of all of us. I appreciate that sentiment.

I appreciated the list of demands that this rally called for as well as their explanations for each.

  • Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine

The Democrats and Republicans have armed Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and military aid. The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is pushing us toward a nuclear WW3. Stop funding the war.

  • Negotiate Peace

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Howard Switzer
Howard Switzer

Written by Howard Switzer

Howard Switzer is an ecological architect and monetary reformer in rural Tennessee.

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