Friday, August 19, 2016

A healthy democracy does need a presidency drunk with power

  • In a healthy democracy is there not something childish about our obsession with the profile and " fitness " of the president of the United States ?

     The basis of this presidential anxiety is a very dysfunctional Congress and very political Supreme Court. The majestic LAW , it seems, is not above the class strife below.

    We let a shadow government decide foreign policy . Does any ordinary American have a quarrel with Russia's Vladimir Putin ?

    Can we, without blushing, recommend our " democracy " , our " way of life " to the world ?



  •  "As a gay American I'm surprised none of your Trump supporters mentioned his truly noble support of the LGBTQ community, especially the threat to our community from a certain fundamentalist sect."


    • As a gay American you might also ask why the Dark Age has made an encore in this 21st century . As a democratic socialist I think this is most rationally explained by decaying capitalism. " Identity politics " will not save the good earth or the human species from future catastrophe.Nor will our New Colonialism in the Middle East check the growing darkness.

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