RE: Obama is a war criminal
January 2, 2015 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 1:17 pm by Ryantology.)
(January 2, 2015 at 12:41 pm)tjakey Wrote: We live in a "post-fallen" America, the failure of American democracy being a thing at least 10 years behind us. We now have a throughly militarized police regularly putting down street protests. Civil liberties have been rolled back for many citizens, and more are in the works. Propaganda rules as both "news" and "entertainment". All of us are continuously threatened by the police on one hand and our fellow, armed, citizens on the other. The flaws in the Constitution have been expertly exploited by those in power, and "democracy" and "liberty" are now words without meaning - but most Americans haven't a clue.
We live with the Chinese curse, "May you live to see interesting times."
I agree with this assessment, but I am not quite so bleak about where it will go. I think the post-9/11 state of things is the last gasp of the Baby Boomers, a generation which has, on the whole, failed this country and its people spectacularly and is trying to destroy any semblance of democracy before Father Time snuffs them all out.
I see the Millennial generation being far more aware, both of themselves and of the consequences of bad behavior. That's not to say they're perfect, because they are by no means, but they are vastly more progressive than any generation before, and a generation of progressives is the only hope we have of not degenerating entirely into a theocorporate neo-fascist hellhole.
