We Couldn’t Keep It
“Well, Doctor, what have we got —- a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
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“Well, Doctor, what have we got —- a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
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Yep.
Our last shot at saving it is the election in November of 2020. If we fail, well the Republic had a nice run.
His candidacy and other concerns aside, I think Biden framed it correctly at the Democratic dinner when he called the upcoming election “The Battle for the Soul of America.” A validation of Trumpism by the electorate is a frightening thought. I’m just so tired of the bad guys, the bully, the cheat, winning.
Sorry, bruv. Nothing said or done at that dinner was correct or helpful. America doesn’t have “a soul”. If it did we’re all going to hell. America’s soul is dark and decrepit and chronically ill.
Just focus on policies that directly impact people’s material needs. Create a message that clearly communicates this.
Stop with the allusions and phony signs of the cross and little dog and pony shows for ass kissers and sycophants.
Dog and pony shows win presidencies. We can pretend otherwise all we want, but history has repeatedly favored the dog and pony – but I agree it can be trumped by real economic concerns.
I wholly agree with a focus on kitchen table issues and material needs. I’m sure you’re not a Clinton fan, but “it’s the economy, stupid” remains the most important message. The Trump economy is a sham, and there’s a storm brewing. We can’t count on it, we shouldn’t cheer it on, but we damn well should message it when it happens.
Thank you. I thought you were joking at first or maybe commenting from the 20th century. You scared me there a minute.
Now I see what you’ve done. You’ve proven my point far better than I did.
“Our last shot at saving it is the election in November of 2020”
I agree. This is it. I also agree that it is about our soul or rather, in an atheistic sense, our will to meaning. America has always had an outsized presence on the world stage, sometimes as policeman, sometimes as the economic bastion that holds global trade together, and sometimes as Gordon Sinclair articulated in his editorial “The Americans” in 1973, as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
Some seek a more progressive America, others, a return to the days of yesteryear. But I think it’s more important than the sum of social programs or the acquisition of wealth. It’s about a place where there is there is not just the meeting of our basic physiological and security needs, but the realization of one’s potential and self actualization that give purpose and meaning to one’s life. That’s what America has always been about. It’s why the brain drain has always flowed west and east towards our shores.
I think Trump was an aberration, maybe one that was needed. In a spiritual sense, Trump was a warning to us all. How we respond to that warning, that threat to our republic, will determine our future and perhaps the future of the entire world, because as you notice, he is a disease from which even far-away nations have no immunity.
I have always been an optimist, glass half full, kind of guy. Unfortunately, since 2016 I have been slipping towards pessimism. I would like to believe that 2020 will be a turning point, but the internecine warfare among the factions, except for Trump’s base, leads me to believe (and fear) that 2020 will be the nail in the coffin. United we stand. Yet, I’m just not convinced that unity against this common threat is even possible any longer.