Letters to the Editor
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Isn't It Interesting?
You have the nakedness of the fraud that is George W. Bush's Presidency, his lovers, enablers, and the downright ignorant, on the one hand, and then you have, as illustrated by many of the letters here, deeply thoughtful, caring, angry (justly) people, whose minds are greatly free, even within this horrible social system that is American right now, and who remain, to a great degree (though not all), somehow, deeply humanistic, and even optimistic?
After all, with regards to the latter, what choice to we have? Are we just going to give up to the endgame of this NeoLiberalCon movement? Why would we? How would life be worth living?
This is the year 2007. Remember, when we were children, what we thought the future would be like?
This is not it. This is a reality without a future. Its only end is the destruction of humankind.
The Founders were amazing men, gifted in so many ways, and also just men, as you, and I, and others, and Bush, are, but it was their humanity that provided the basis for the document that could yet still save us, the Constitution.
With regards to the latter, what is extremely sad about the current situation is that it is a situation that is so precisely the basis for the Impeachment clause, that we might as well discard the notion that the clause is even valid any longer. Perhaps, as someone pointed out yesterday, for example, as well, that was part of the basis for the absolutely baseless impeachment of Clinton stemming from an illegally taped phone call. There is supposedly no "stomach" for it any longer--except if one asks the American people if they would support impeachment if it could be demonstrated that the War was started through deception (among the countless examples of high crimes and misdemeanours)...
To which we all know the answer.
Anyway, maybe, just maybe, we will survive. Maybe, just maybe, we will have truly said to ourselves at that point, "Never again."
America is really not much great than many other democratic or parliamentary republics or democracies, and indeed, particularly at this point, is amazingly lacking in many, many areas. But if we try; if we hold onto our humanity; if we honor the Constitution and all those that died to defend it; if we recapture our sense of optimism, our sensibilities, our respect for ourselves and others; our ingenuity, our sense of what we had once thought the future might be like; maybe, just maybe, we might survive.
I am given hope by those that I read here, those that still care about what is right, and what has been going on for the last six years that is so horribly, horribly wrong.