Who are we? What will it take for us to act?
In today’s article in the Boston Review Democracy is a Habit, (link to article) Melvin Rogers introduces us to an unlikely viewpoint on Democracy, American philosopher, John Dewey.
“The democratic road is the hard one to take,” Dewey concluded in Freedom and Culture. “It is the road which places the greatest burden of responsibility on the greatest number of human beings.” Precisely for this reason, Dewey believed the culture of democracy — the habits and sensibilities of the citizenry — in greater need of scrutiny than its constitution and procedures. For what are constitutions and procedures once you have deformed the ground upon which their proper functioning depends? Dewey was convinced that the moral and political life of America is neither given to us nor assured by God. It is made and re-made by us. And by us, it will either grow and flourish or die.”
This is passion, my friends, and we need not suppress it.
This evening we learned of the Republicans filing articles of Impeachment, not on the President, but on US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whom we all know, if fired/impeached will strategically cut the Mueller investigation at it’s knees, thus protecting our President from being accountable for any of his actions.
At any other time in history this would be the practice of a corrupt government that doesn’t practice any form of democracy. But, today, this is the United States of America. I believe Dewey was right on! Yes…”for what are our constitutions and procedures once they have deformed the ground upon which their proper function depends?”
Our country pails today in comparison to just a short time ago when we were progressing to a humanistic society, flawed yes, but we were moving forward. I remember just over the past few years, before Trump, conservatives beginning to say how bad things were because they couldn’t joke about their little harmless racial or sexual innuendos. They were made uncomfortable by the direction the country was headed. That was the slow rumble.
Fast forward to today, and their dream of a return to a more “civil” time, when women and blacks knew their place in society, where gays were ostracized, ridiculed, and reviled, was not a part of their utopia remembrances, so they would claim. But, we know better. I cannot tell you how many times a Republican told me “I’m not a racist, but…”
So, I will not tone down my passions, as many democrats have recommended. I’m pissed off and I challenge everyone to channel your anger into expression. For me it’s writing…and, here I go….
Slimy spineless Republicans are doing EVERYTHING possible to shield their obsessive lying Fuhrer from being held accountable for lies, obstruction, corruption, collusion, immorality, stripping immigrant parents from their children, race baiting, and most importantly, violating every principle we hold dear in our democracy by conspiring with a foreign government, and that’s just for starters.
There are too many days until November mid-terms, there are too many days until the 2020 Presidential election, where we don’t even have candidates canvasing against him yet. Who will lead us? No one has a clue.
We have turned our country over to a two bit mafia showboat shielded by a corrupt party who have increased our debt astronomically, and will leave the mess for the next elected leader, if there is one. He has used frothing at the mouth evangelicals who worship at the golden cow to make them believe he is one of them. Apparently, they are one of him. He cowers to a much wiser Russian, former KGB, over-lord that demands our sovereignty in payment for his debts.
God help us all if we remain prostate by our democrat representatives who just spout words of indignation for the cameras, yet actually do nothing. I would be screaming at everyone Republican, especially the ones who claim they are middle of the road (highly doubtful), embarrassing them in front of their colleagues. I would scream at everyone of them saying “How Dare You!” I would challenge my colleagues in the Democrat party to join me and do the same, making their comfortably unaware lives miserable. I would hound every lobbyist and demand they verbally acknowledge their loyalty to money and power over country and humanism in front of a camera. Of course…as you can image, I wouldn’t last long, finding myself in a parallel universe to Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany. How long do we wait for that scenario?
CIVILITY? that is reserved for those who deserve respect. NONE of these people do. This IS War and not a damn one any of our Representatives has any guts to take on! It’s shameful….
Ok…..your turn….
Originally published at thatsjhiroll.blogspot.com on July 26, 2018.
