MARDU Speaks: October Optimism

Monday, October 27th, 2008 @ 12:31 pm | US Politics, We Think

We’ve been hearing about the expected “October Surprise”. Some voters are waiting anxiously for an announcement from the lead terrorist bin Laden or a special unexpected declaration from either major party. YouThinkWhat has its own surprise from contributor MARDU:

OPTIMISM ?Â October, 2008

Before I beg your indulgence in my opinions, let me stipulate that regardless of any particular outcome of earthly events, I don’t for an instant believe that it matters in a cosmic sense. To me It is just our little drama.

I feel the need to review, and the presentation of my random thoughts can be disorganized. I’m not the best writer since Vonnegut, or Jefferson, so I struggle to organize.

We are fewer than 3 weeks out from without doubt the most critical election in my lifetime, and I recognize that all have been important in their contexts. We began the process, one is hard pressed to remember when but,I suppose December 2000 is an arguable choice. It is improbable that one can synopsize the intervening period.

As a nation we are so different today than we were then. Events have certainly stacked up.

Our circumstances could hardly have been more altered. WWII was a time of severe societal upheaval.
I was there for that one, and I feel that this time is far more severe.

Mostly, I believe, because of the underlying alteration of our direction as a culture that preceded the successful tampering with a national election.

We had stopped caring about our similarities and focused too much energy on our differences. In doing this we lost sight of our government, which had basically gone into hiding,while we were wallowing in our materialism on our progeny’s nickel, it gave away the farm to the oligarchy.

One could take either position. Is it half full or half empty ? In either it needs filling.
Though the dour side is my habitual stance, my sense is optimistic.

I know that we are in a game where which side one is on is critical to the survival of humans. I believe that greed created our current social, cultural, political, and economic troubles. Make no mistake I am in no way un-biased.

I’m going to go back to the birth of what got us here. It was during the Reagan era, a small group of political figures within the administration, which bus in my opinion was being driven by Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush whose cadre included William Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle. They came up with The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) which basically states that America should rule the world by force of arms when necessary.

Along the winding path of three administrations. Punctuated by the doctrine of shrinking Federal authority and Congressional over-sight. We have come to our current sword of Damocles.

We find our nation is bankrupt both economically and culturally.

We have been extorted into the greatest transfer of wealth in history. From the American taxpayers to the Speculators that swindled everyone.

We are on the cusp of the unthinkable, about to cast off centuries of racism and elect a non-Caucasian President.

It is in my opinion possible to emerge from this abyss into a Utopian eruption of abandonment of fear and the malice it engenders.

We can overcome the economic problem by utilizing our greatest strength, our capacity for unity of purpose. Learning how to capture the abundant solar energy at our disposal every day will bring economic prosperity to the entire planet, and great wealth to America as the developer of the licensable technologies. The research and development effort alone will create perhaps a half million new high paying jobs.

To my thinking this is the most hopeful underpinning to a full recovery from the now totally discredited Republican plan.

Re: public cans —- I think they are overflowing.