We, the people are violent and filled with rage: A nation spinning apart on its Independence Day - Salon.com
Any commentary or thought I have can only detract from this superb & concise insight of the present condition of US affairs. Mr Sleeper has found a new & respectful admirer. I consider this articulation of our current state, as well as the road that led us here an accurate treatise to our State of the Union & perhaps more importantly the depths & processes required to 'fix' it.
1) Fire the established career politicians (those of 'blood' & "ill-gotten wealth").
2) Subjugate those who have stifled open debate & free discourse.
3) Reign in the "consumer capitalism [that] displaces the needs that the early republic filtered through nature’s rhythms and kinship traditions."
4) Deny by moral ethics the "morally corrupt "with ginned-up "wants" that by their nature, are unlimited and insatiable).
5) Firewall agin the above's resurrection & be diligent of the pendulum's swing either to far left or right.
Unfortunately, as Mr Sleeper well points out & many of us know through anecdotal experience, we have to hit near bottom for the masses to be motivated to move. The good news? This cleansing "movement" only required 3% of the population to initiate, execute & succeed.
Of the many points Mr Sleeper made these two stood out for me:
"Our gilded political consultants, pollsters and campaign donors were too blind to see the boiling undercurrents that have swept away House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Nor can they see that Cantor’s political demise presages an inflammation of ressentiment (sic) so wild that the coming, specious, “Who Lost Iraq?” debate will be accompanied by the shot that some military veteran who feels betrayed will fire at a politician who’s been left holding the empty bag of our civic-republican hopes.
So we are flying almost totally blind, punched bloody by a Hand that we keep insisting is Invisible. We can see only the sickness of the gunmen and of the proliferation of their guns. Treatment of those symptoms is urgently needed, but it will be insufficient to curb the wrecking ball that global capitalism has become on our willfully blind watch, and triage won’t renew the civic fabric."
Any commentary or thought I have can only detract from this superb & concise insight of the present condition of US affairs. Mr Sleeper has found a new & respectful admirer. I consider this articulation of our current state, as well as the road that led us here an accurate treatise to our State of the Union & perhaps more importantly the depths & processes required to 'fix' it.
1) Fire the established career politicians (those of 'blood' & "ill-gotten wealth").
2) Subjugate those who have stifled open debate & free discourse.
3) Reign in the "consumer capitalism [that] displaces the needs that the early republic filtered through nature’s rhythms and kinship traditions."
4) Deny by moral ethics the "morally corrupt "with ginned-up "wants" that by their nature, are unlimited and insatiable).
5) Firewall agin the above's resurrection & be diligent of the pendulum's swing either to far left or right.
Unfortunately, as Mr Sleeper well points out & many of us know through anecdotal experience, we have to hit near bottom for the masses to be motivated to move. The good news? This cleansing "movement" only required 3% of the population to initiate, execute & succeed.
Of the many points Mr Sleeper made these two stood out for me:
"Our gilded political consultants, pollsters and campaign donors were too blind to see the boiling undercurrents that have swept away House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Nor can they see that Cantor’s political demise presages an inflammation of ressentiment (sic) so wild that the coming, specious, “Who Lost Iraq?” debate will be accompanied by the shot that some military veteran who feels betrayed will fire at a politician who’s been left holding the empty bag of our civic-republican hopes.
So we are flying almost totally blind, punched bloody by a Hand that we keep insisting is Invisible. We can see only the sickness of the gunmen and of the proliferation of their guns. Treatment of those symptoms is urgently needed, but it will be insufficient to curb the wrecking ball that global capitalism has become on our willfully blind watch, and triage won’t renew the civic fabric."
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