For the first time since the Fourth of July was officially declaimed (by me) as the most idiotic national holiday, I feel optimistic about America, or what remains of it.
1. Many Americans seem to be at a tipping point: they are abandoning their passive acceptance of the neo-con dream of permanent war (mostly in the Mideast.) Republicans are catching on to the fact that today is not the day after 9-11, and that endless militarism is not the ticket to electoral success.
2. It's not impossible that Rand Paul will be the Republican candidate for president, rather than some senile warmonger like McCain or some low IQ Bahbll Christian.
3. No matter what your politics most people know that at least two healthy parties are necessary for a healthy democracy. Until the Republicans free themselves of the neo-con, Rapture Christian, Israeli-lobby doctrine of Permanent War, the Republican party is doomed. Is it just wishful thinking or are they actually starting to free themselves of the stain of the last 13 years?
4. Thanks in part to the centenary of the Great War (World War I) good articles are appearing on the internet about the Great War, British/French imperialism after that war, and American interventionism in general. I am hopeful that Americans will start seeing Arab and Muslim terrorism for what it really is: an Effect; the Cause is Western imperialism.
1. Many Americans seem to be at a tipping point: they are abandoning their passive acceptance of the neo-con dream of permanent war (mostly in the Mideast.) Republicans are catching on to the fact that today is not the day after 9-11, and that endless militarism is not the ticket to electoral success.
2. It's not impossible that Rand Paul will be the Republican candidate for president, rather than some senile warmonger like McCain or some low IQ Bahbll Christian.
3. No matter what your politics most people know that at least two healthy parties are necessary for a healthy democracy. Until the Republicans free themselves of the neo-con, Rapture Christian, Israeli-lobby doctrine of Permanent War, the Republican party is doomed. Is it just wishful thinking or are they actually starting to free themselves of the stain of the last 13 years?
4. Thanks in part to the centenary of the Great War (World War I) good articles are appearing on the internet about the Great War, British/French imperialism after that war, and American interventionism in general. I am hopeful that Americans will start seeing Arab and Muslim terrorism for what it really is: an Effect; the Cause is Western imperialism.
Comments
I too suspect that after a generation of one-party rule by the Democrats, the USA would be eager to start over.
This wonderful country would be so much better off if those who administered it would honor the absolute separation of religion and state and would accept and promote equality and justice for ALL humanity regardless of race, ethnicity, religion and gender identity/sexual orientation.
Chris
Your recommended reading....David Stockman....published this after you published the above.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/if-only-the-u-s-had-stayed-out-of-wwi/
Usually we think short-term only and do not stop to consider what the world might have looked like had we not entered WWI. This proposed scenario is worthy of consideration.
Americans have no interest in the history of any war other than World War II. They love its triumphalisim, simplistic Black hats versus White hats, and how American soldiers were all ten feet tall.
How many of us today, when we consider what is happening on our southern border, would be willing to look past immigration problems as the root? Would we be willing to look at the illegalization of drugs here in the US as the kindling for the rise of crime, coyotes, etc.? You know, fear is a terrible thing but the truth of the matter is that these drugs were all quite legal and present in many of the items purchased at the local general stores before the US government decided to become everyone's judge and jury. Did we learn nothing from prohibition?