Joe,
George Bernard Shaw is reputed to have said: "An asylum for the sane would be empty in America". We must all be mad as hatters to have allowed the complete takeover of our wonderful country by a group of criminally insane, hate-mongering, racist, greedy, vile "Born Again Christians" (bad joke on you, Christians, your religion's moral authority and relevance seem to be tanking). The tragedy is that few people seem to care. Visiting in-laws informed me yesterday that there was a huge ongoing property tax protest in Indianapolis that the governor of that quivering pile of red state pus known as Indiana was attempting to quell.
Destruction of the Constitution and our civil liberties don't seem to faze the average idiot citizen. I guess us 'Mericans will only get riled if our pathetic pocketbooks are drained by Mother State. Otherwise, as long as we continue to get our bread and circus from the infotainment industry, who cares?
My attorney daughter said at dinner last night: "This country is too large and too fragmented for a coherent, focused revolution to ever succeed". Unfortunately, she may be correct. If so, how do retain our sanity? What should we do? More to the point, what CAN we do? I am trying mightily to work within our "system", such as it is, but have come to the realization that my feeble attempts to engage in dialogue with friends, family and colleagues, my efforts to support "political" candidates, my monetary contributions, and my letters to my "elected" representatives are all pointless.
I doubt that more than five out of 100 American citizens can identify the source of the following:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
It would seem that we have a "duty", a "right" to exercise, no? Perhaps this is just another quaint and irrelevant concept.
Keep up your end of the fight, Joe. We must never give in.
Doug
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Doug,
A lot of thinking people with their eyes wide open agree with your daughter. Personally, I am coming to believe we are going to end up with either a one-world corporate financial plant, or one broken down into smaller manageable states. A good case can be made for the latter and there are several books we don't much see in America making that argument -- that super states and geographically large nations will break down into smaller states. Some say that is just beginning in places like Mexico now, though it is not perceived that way.
The staggering size and geography and media nervous system of America make perception of dissolution impossible for the average citizen to even see. If there were a coup in Washington tomorrow most people in Kansas would simply see it as news from that far away place called Washington, DC.
Husband: "Hey honey, come look! There are tanks on Pennsylvania Avenue!!.
Wife: "I'll watch it when I get back from the mall."
Kids: "Daddy, where's Washington?"
In art and labor,
Joe
