Making phone calls for MoveOn.
I love all the great things Al Gore is doing these days, including Inconvenient Truth. Perhaps he would simply have delayed the Bushies a bit, and they would have relentlessly attacked any policies he tried to put forward. It’s not easy to fight the power of the oil barons, in any time period. Perhaps they simply have to run their course, but the destruction of our military, our economy, and our American values has been so relentless that I can only wish I lived in that alternate universe where Al Gore was our President.
Someone asked me the other day in the comments if I ever thought I would be a freedom fighter. I guess the real answer is, I wish I didn’t have to be one. I wish I could just sit back and ignore what’s going on, like so many do. I can’t. I see the way things work too clearly, I follow the logic of how things end too well. I know where this path we are on leads, and I want to scream at the top of my lungs, “Turn Back! It’s not too late!” We are on our way to an ugly depression, a world war, and so many, many lives lost. It is an ugly future the Bush path leads to. It has been since before he was put into office. I knew it then, and have been surprised only by how quickly it all played out, how complete the destruction is becoming.
I hope beyond hope this election starts the change we need to see. I hope beyond hope the people wake up, the sheep look up, and see where they are being led – to slaughter.
We can change. Individually, and as a people. Speak out, tell everyone you know – it doesn’t have to go down this way. Get out and VOTE, speak out now.
Or the marching in the street will not be far away.
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Yes, it was all predictable. The frightening thing for me, also, is the speed at which it happened and the willingness of so many to accept it, to ignore the deeper meanings of what is happening, to go along with evil.
I agree. The path we have taken leads to darkness and chaos. The sad thing is that the assumptions that have chained us to this path seem so far from being abandoned. Not because they aren’t terribly flawed, but because they are terribly seductive. They are convenient for the people in power. And they give us hope of economic power most of us will never gain.
Sadly, the lessons the French learned in their revolution – the importance not only of institutions that would enable fair treatment, but also of fair treatment itself – have never been well enshrined in the American consciousness SImilarly, for all its flaws, the British aristocracy did give lip-service to the notion of noblesse oblige. But that idea has similarly been lost stateside. It would prove so much less painful for everyone if we could learn from history.