Is Our Country Still a "Hostage"??
"Holed-up" in our House of Representatives, hooligans in their gerrymandered fox-holes threaten, still, to blow up our economy, and the global economy; -- out of spite, and their hatred for the President.
Their antics have sparked a brawl inside what used to be the Republican Party, with just about all of them in some way attempting to throw others out. Politics in this country becomes more strange daily.
Last night, I watched again my copy of The Defiant Ones. The 1958 film, winner of best picture of the year by the New York Film Critics is eerily relevant to practices we have allowed this bunch to drag into the 21st century. It can help explain why "W" and his cronies insisted, over the objection of Mabarak, on swinging Saddam at the end of a rope. The practice is as old in our history as cowboys and the Klan. Some boys will be boys, and should never be given serious power. The road to respectability will be a long one for the Republican Party. The film also reminds us that Abu Ghraib may lie closer than we admit to an old strain in our population.
Starting with Nixon, boosted by "Ol-triple-six", and exploding under "W", strategies of the Republicans have led to our current sorry political and economic mess. The master strategists were Lee Atwater, succeeded by Karl Rove. Young voters in the United States put a stop to it; but young observers, the world over, should be of concern to all of us.
2012, alone, won't cure this mess. Every election, for the foreseeable future, must be seen as an opportunity for us to create a better, more sane, and workable nation.
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