Numerous outlets on the internet (AlterNet, Common Dreams, etc.) seem to carry more and more angry responses to articles and each other relative to the destruction of America and her promise of a truly democratic republic "of the people, by the people and for the people". From boardrooms of corporations where the privileged few garner the overwhelming share of the fruits of American labor (or the slave labor exported outside our borders) to the best (worst) bunch of hooligans in DC that money can buy, the United States is rapidly turning into an international pariah that tortures, steals, mocks human values and doesn't give a fig about its own population at large.
Recently, I read a piece outlining the 7 prerequisites for (national) revolution - they are all presently extant to one degree or another in America. Because of the gun laws in this country, many are armed. Should a violent revolution take place in the US, the destruction of institutions, infrastructure and the economy would be so deep and widespread that it would take many generations for recovery, if recovery were to happen at all. Anarchy, racial and religious revenge/retribution/sheer evil - all would peak until some kind of populist leadership could emerge - or not.
Do we have a Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Payne or Franklin in our midst, or have we so polluted and compromised our national character that even on person of this calibre would be too much to ask for, much less more than one with the courage to stand in the face of death and declare independence from greed, oligarchs and religious zealots? I wonder.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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