A beautiful day here in Chicagoland, August 13. Sunny and low 80s. Low humidity. Biking to a nearby park, the scene is placid, peaceful and welcoming. Squirrels dash about. People on benches eating, or laying about, one or two reading a book (yes, reading a book). A great day to be outdoors at midday. Or all day. The ambience is an antidote for the rough weather days . This type of absolutely ideal day is a gift from Mother Nature. Everyone, anywhere they may exist on our blue and green sphere, should have the same agreeable weather. After all, it’s a fair weather day that helps to sooth and smooth-out–if just for a day–the myriad externals of daily life which produce mindsets beset with crumpled, crinkled consternations.

If only this day could be bottled, canned, shrink-wrapped and thus be at one’s command. Some control. Maybe more than some. Lacking access to fair weather at will, we can still  imagine it every day, daydreaming a bright, soft and serene alternative to what now amounts to a undeniably deeply disturbing descent into political darkness.

Dark? Among other atrocities, children being perfunctorily killed, in a flash or by slow starvation, while those who could stop it simply choose not to. Minorities are being persecuted. “Taken”. “Iced”. Women are under siege: a miscarriage might be a felony in certain areas. Women’s right to vote being casually considered by some far-right voices to be taken away –a crucial right finally granted only 105 years ago. Callous, gratuitous toxicity.

While a beautiful day weather-wise can be a balm, climate chaos is more the norm than the exception. Climate action? Like Gaza, no sense of alarm with certain authorities. In fact, polluters have allies in high office. If only the powers-that-be could be neutered and unable to procreate their progeny of greedy, amoral, and ruthless offerings.

A Gallup News poll from October, 2024, resulted in 58% of respondents saying we need a 3rd party. A major 3rd party. Another poll from We, the PeopleSeptember of 2024 showed an “independent” party was preferred by 69% of respondents. Independent from that Duopoly, of course. Independent from corporate donors that would dictate their policies. That is what any 3rd party should be–ideally.

There is such an ideal 3rd party. It has been around since 1984: the Green Party. Peace. Planet. People. Local and national, the Green platform seeks to provide relief from the corporate owned and operated Frick or Frack fraud that has created the dystopia of today. A two-sides-of-the–same coin System that supports genocide, empire and constant conflict.

Give it a try. We need to do better, that is unarguable. It’s up to We, the People to unite and fight for brighter days. We all have the power to make positive change. It starts with understanding we all have that power.