Friday, May 2, 2008
What Can the Americans do to Advance Justice, Really?
We live in a nation in economic and social decline, at least economic and social decline for most of us. This is a common conservative theme and yet the conservatives have no understanding that it is their very adherence to capitalism and an imperial foreign policy that leads to the disintegration of the family and the murder of family members from both our own families here in the United States but especially wherever our absolutely invulnerable air force goes to bomb without personal consequence.
Then you have the mainstream liberals who are not willing to rock the boat very much. They often suck up to conservatives and their ignorant proclamations of truth. Liberals have almost cheerfully ceded power to conservative government and business. Clintonism and Obamaism pretty much summarize what wrong with mainstream American liberalism. One bows to empire and capital and the other does the same. What a difference!
There are small progressive groups and populations in the country. They are generally kept out of public debate and prevented from taking public office. Progressives are largely dispersed and exist at a small group level, often centering around religious organizations. These groups are perhaps growing and offer some hope, not Obama hope, but real hope for Progressive change.
The people and the people alone are the makers of world history. Yet here in the United States we see an increasingly top-down civil society and an increasingly dictatorial and repressive government.
Then you have the mainstream liberals who are not willing to rock the boat very much. They often suck up to conservatives and their ignorant proclamations of truth. Liberals have almost cheerfully ceded power to conservative government and business. Clintonism and Obamaism pretty much summarize what wrong with mainstream American liberalism. One bows to empire and capital and the other does the same. What a difference!
There are small progressive groups and populations in the country. They are generally kept out of public debate and prevented from taking public office. Progressives are largely dispersed and exist at a small group level, often centering around religious organizations. These groups are perhaps growing and offer some hope, not Obama hope, but real hope for Progressive change.
The people and the people alone are the makers of world history. Yet here in the United States we see an increasingly top-down civil society and an increasingly dictatorial and repressive government.
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