@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:
That's a lot of "ifs" to make it work. I don't see it happening during my lifetime, because I've seen the transformation of what it used to be like in this country until what we have today. All that transformation happened as everybody looked, and accepted what they saw.
I have heard of places, like the Antebellum South, and in Russia, where people witnessing the parties of the wealthy beside the poverty of the poor thought nothing there would ever change, and perhaps it would never have changed were the rich not so stupid and careless in their government over their people and property...
The force for change is here, and present... Just as with structural forces in a building, the force is met with a reaction... The force of gravity bears upon a reaction of a column, or a beam, or a perlin... Some of the forces of nature can overwhelm the balance between forces and reactions... We have a great deal of force for progress in this country, people who want to see government work, and want to fix what is wrong with society and the government so that the people can have hope for the future... And we have a great number of people geared to reaction who are determined to hold back the hands of time from every forward progress... They look at the immigrants whose exploitation has always fed our economy, and do not want to see them with rights... This may be for the fact that the right recognizes that they do not have enough rights, and never have ahd enough rights... They do not want to share what they have not enough of; but their problem results from a misconception of rights... In fact, though the reactionaries suffer from minus intelligence, little imagination, great fears, and a propensity toward violence; they are as much victims of the failure of our society as is anyone else...
It may well be that the reactionaries will have to be overwhelmed by force of arms, and that would be terrible... They have the arms, and they are violent, and they also own the military and have a religious justification for using the ultimate of Thermonuclear Weapons against us, and against our cities... I think they are mad as well as slow, but until I know differently I will still try to relate to them, and bring them around to a sensible view of reality... I would like to see us all make it into the future together, and not as enemies, but as friends... But this is not to misjudge what is at stake, what change will take, and what it will take to tip the whole society in the direction of change... The hard work of getting people ready for something better has been done... Now, we just have to do it...
