Dear Fred,
Thanks for your email.
You are right about the
primacy of war and peace when choosing a president.
As I see it, however, war is
no longer a crap shoot but "a sure thing": it is de
rigueur for every commander-in-chief to conduct "his" own
"little war."
Those of us with basically
liberal instincts give insufficient credit to American conservatives' ability
to fuck things up. (We are, in fact, too kind...)
Already, widespread refusal
to pay sufficient tax has jeopardized the survival of "liberal democracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy (American Know-Nothings are
so addled as to ignore the foundational truth that America is essentially an
experiment in "liberal democracy.")
But "the ball" is
in the Supremes' "court" and a Supreme Court whose
"balance" is weighted by Romney appointees would zealously advance
the cause of corporatocracy, just recently apotheosized by the Citizens
United ruling.
Do you know Bill Moyer's splendid
quip? "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
Romney is not only a
corporatist, he is a transactional capitalist - a breed that
prides itself on "making deals" rather than building actual value
into The Common Good, or, to use the Preamble's phrase, "The
General Welfare."
Under aegis of
globalization - and now with productive capacity increasingly the domain of
robots, automata and self-refining software tools - I see
little future for "brawny workers" and, going forward, less work for
"brainy workers" as well.
As Scott Fitzgerald famously
noted in conversation with Hemingway: "The rich are different from
you and me."
The full
quotation is found in Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy" (1926).
"Let me
tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess
and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are
hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich,
it is very difficult to understand." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
I have
created a blog entitled "Cassandra's Lament" - so named because we no
longer need a Greek heroine to foretell what "the rich boys"
will do to us. They will make their own kind richer, and they will fuck the
rest of us in the ass. (New Obama ad, made for Ohio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgiuq2uR6LA)
In any event, the estrangement between "them" and "us" is intensifying.
And Little Richie
Rich is "just the guy" to bring this estrangement to climax.
If Sketchy is
elected -- and if he dismantles Obamacare as promised (for whatever an Etch-a-Sketch "promise"
is worth) -- I think George Soros is right.
There will be fighting in the
streets. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.html
Pax on
both houses
Living In The Bubble
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"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
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