Look, things have got to change.
I just sat through the movie World Trade Center and cried for two hours straight while reliving the horrible dread and sorrow I felt nearly seven years ago. I cried for what happened on September 11, 2001. I cried for the people who died, the fighters who lived, and the heroes who never gave up on digging out survivors. But I also cried for what this country has become.
We, the United States, had a chance to change the world. And we did. As badly as can be imagined. I felt that President Bush, a moderate and bipartisan governor less than a year before, would heed the call and lead this country into a golden age of evil-shattering enlightenment, education and global unity. Instead he and his people pissed it away with no real concern for anything but proving their bullshit, fantastical theories and earning a place in history books.
After finishing the movie, I sat down at this computer to find that several news organizations are calling the Democratic nomination for Obama (finally). My hope is that Hillary hasn't done so much damage to the party that Old Man McCain marches into office with his creaky, antiquated ideas and silly pigheadedness.
I believe that Obama will immediately begin steering America back on course, simply by what his election will represent: healing. But in addition to that, I believe he has the thoughtfulness and equanimity to make the decisions that will encourage others to make similarly sound choices. As in, the cleansing of Congress could be in order. Voters could send the greedheads packing, and corruption as policy would end. And then the seeds we plant here on our soil could sprout into some better metaphor than where I just went and affect the entire world.
Do I really believe that will happen? Well, not exactly. But do I believe it can happen? Yes, of course. Over time. It has to at some point, or we're destined for the post-apocalyptic days of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, all eating people and whatnot. So the question is, should we give in and wait for the world to rot? Or should we strive for something better?
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3 comments:
Amen.
I think it's a matter of do we want to continue to be played off each other while the gap between the haves and have-nots increases. Real wages haven't gone up in forever. People our age are gong to find out that we don't have any retirement. Younger people will REALLY find out how hard college is to afford.
All of the safety nets that took care of our parents and grandparents have been cut out from under us. And we've been bamboozled into thinking that it's our fault, that we're not working hard enough, that we don't deserve things like health care and education. And that's not even getting into the fact that the plant is getting warmer and our war adventuring has revealed America to be, in the words of Ron Paul, a spent empire.
Many things have to change, before we're completely left at the mercy of the market economy. Right now, we're pretty close. But we have to put down our hatreds before that can happen. I think the jury's out, but I think we're closer to embracing real change than we've ever been.
i think the important thing here is that someone named themselves after my favorite title of a Sinatra movie. god bless.
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