We are not protected from the ravages
of huge capitalist corporations,
and people feel that their social bond
with their government to protect them is broken.
Because helplessness is one of the biggest causes of trauma.
It is one of the most disturbing things, helplessness.
So what can we do to help this situation and save our mental health
as well as save our country and our connectedness to each other?
Well, the first thing we have to do is join.
We have to join whatever we believe in.
And then we have to join
the socialist message wherever we are,
where we need to connect regardless of
any kind of racial, ethnic,
sexual, gender differences.
We have to connect because we need each other to fight these
enormous, massive, wildly
wealthy capitalist corporations,
which our government will not protect us from.
They use that money to get elected.
They're not going to protect us.
We have to
push the idea of a cooperative economy, an economy that shares,
an economy that is not divided between
wealthy employers and
employees who get just enough to survive or even less.
You know,
in the recent election, even in the reddest states
where there was a clear choice of what you believe in
and what you want, people voted progressively.
Kentucky
did not pass the overall abortion ban that they wanted.
They had a choice.
Total abortion ban or not.
They chose no total abortion.
Then the same thing in Kansas, another red state,
because Americans do choose just alternatives when there are clear
alternatives and they're not very clear in the United States.
We need a clear socialist alternative.
We have two capitalist parties: capitalism lite,
the Democrats and capitalism
heavy, the Republicans.
That's no choice. We need a choice of system
like they have in France
so that we can choose a socialist
alternative or a sharing alternative which will be excellent
for our mental health as well as our physical health.
The recent victories of socialism,
whether in France under Mélenchon
or in Chile, in Brazil,
in Colombia, they all had one thing in common
They were unity, a unity coalition of progressive labor unions.
And their labor unions are more socialist than ours.
So the Socialists and Communists, labor unions
and movements for racial equality,
movements for equality of indigenous people,
movements for equality of gender
and reproductive rights, movement for
gender choices without condemnation,
all under the banner of socialism, which sees the importance
of all these issues, but also the greater importance
of uniting as a class of deprived people, which gives us the mass
to be able to fight
against the enormous corporations that are fleecing us.
That's what we all have to realize, and that is our hope
and that is our connection.
And that will save our mental health
because mental health is dependent on connection.
And if we connect with hope, we'll win
and feel better and be less crazy as Americans.