U.S. jingoists :export our dysfunctional democracy ?

     I sense a growing hysteria over the crisis in the Ukraine. Just as President Obama was making plans to cut back our bloated military, powerful sections of the American ruling class are longing for Cold War absolutism. The Russian ruling class is now just drunk with money and the arrogance of power. No SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST threat here !

       Our own democracy has never been more dysfunctional. Who are we to recommend it to the rest of the world ? Here Tea Party Republicans show complete contempt for the poorer half of the country. But they want working class American kids to sacrifice their lives to protect class privilege in capitalist America ?

         We are approaching the 100th anniversary of the Great War - the dumbest big war in modern history. Historians will recall the madness of Verdun and all that Wilsonian blather about freedom and democracy- on a mountain of corpses !

          We won't be fooled again ?